Archive Month shows when all posts in month are excluded giving 404 error

Hi @julie,

Can you provide more details on “the month”. Are you referring to the month archive widget or something similar?

I guess that my description isn’t too helpful. Yes, I am talking about the Archive Widget. Simply Exclude removes the titles from all the widgets, but the Months still show up in the Archive Widget even if they are empty.

Hi again @julie. Yes, I figured it was the Archive widget. Unfortunately Simply-Exclude has not direct effect on the widget output. The reason for this is the widget is sort of closed off in that is perform direct queries to show the archive listing/dropdown. And the listing is not controllable or filterable by other plugins like Simply-Exclude.

As far as your other comment “Simply Exclude removes the titles from all the widgets” I’m not concerned. The Simply-Exclude plugin really does not remove titles. It was designed to filter the main page query, the Loop, used by WordPress.

That’s a shame because I would really like to use the Archive Widget for this website. As far as the other comment, what I meant by it was that it was working the way I would want it to. It is only not working for the Archive.

Thank you for your prompt response.

Hi again @julie, I’ll check the Archives widget code in the most recent version of WordPress to see if there are any new options for filtering the queries. If there are I’ll post an update. Thanks.

Thank you, Paul! That would be awesome.

@julie,

Ok. Worked on some changes this morning. Trying to filter on the raw SQL used by the archives widget. Let’s see if it works for you. Works fine on my vanilla site.

Please download and install. This should replace the current version of Simply-Exclude
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2616987/projects/wp-plugins/simply-exclude/beta/simply-exclude-2.0.6.3-Beta1.zip

Please report back on this thread. Thanks

@julie,

Just wondering if you saw my last post and if you have had a chance to review.

Paul

Paul,

I downloaded it, uninstalled the previous version and installed your beta one. However, I’m still having the problem. Here’s a link to the development site: https://192.185.98.156/~dceager/. If you go down to the blog section and click on the link for the month of November you’ll see the 404 error.

That is happening because a blog category that is being excluded has a post for that month. I’m trying to figure out if I need to do anything else in the settings to get it to work?

Thank you for all of your efforts and for following up!

@julie,

Hmm. This should have worked. You should not need to make any other setting adjustments. In this beta version of SE when you exclude the item from the ‘Archive’ is is automatically excluded form the widget.

Since this is under development is it possible to let me log in and see if I can assist further? Don’t post login information here. you should be able to contact me via my website https://www.codehooligans.com/contact/

Paul,

You went above and beyond! Thanks for fixing this and for giving such excellent support!