Archives: Display Months per Year in Seperate Lists

Nice little plugin: https://www.oneofthosedays.org.uk/projects/plugin-archives – displays a table of months under a year header.

I don’t think you can trick it to display a month when you don’t have a post, but there might be a way, just never needed to dig around for it.

Or the author might come up with something.

my only issue with this is that is uses tables. I mean why not just you an ordered list. Maybe I can modify it….

Tables are great for tabular data. This IS tabular data. But you might be able to tweak it.

Another way to do what you’re after:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/39204#post-310420

Thanks Kafkaesqui. Two questions:

1. What would I change if I only wanted to display the year and months for 2005?

2. I can get this to work on the archive.php page but on the archives.php page it will only show the years and not the months…any ideas?

For Q’s 1 & 2:

https://guff.szub.net/source/sample-62859.php

Very belated edit:

I missed your point on Q1 about listing archives months for just 2005. For that change the $arc_years line in the example script to:

$arc_years = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_date LIKE '2005%' ORDER BY post_date DESC");

Thanks Kafkaequi! I figured out how to show just the year I wanted but thanks for the confirmation that I was doing it right. The only other thing that would be helpful is how to display all the months of the year (regardless if any posts were made that month). Is that even possible?

Scratch that…from the usability standpoint, that would make zero sense.

Also from a programmatic standpoint. :)