Archives by YEAR (this is different!)

Thanks a lot! That’s what I was looking for.
Maybe the next version supports get_archives with yearly?!

It would be perfect, to show the archives monthly for the actual year and yearly for previous years.
I guess this code would be a little too complex.

Aylwin (or anyone else looking to filter out future posts from the archive list), just alter the query code to this:

$now = current_time('mysql');
$years = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date) FROM $wpdb->posts AND post_date <= '$now' ORDER BY post_date");

hartlrobert, you may be interested in this plugin:

https://www.blindmuse.com/blog/2004/03/31/group-archives-by-year/

(Just happened to stumble across the thread, hence the late reply…)

Kafkaesqui, thanks.

Kafkaesqui, thanks for the code. I managed to get it done somehow but your code looks cleaner.

rinaldi, I’m not sure how you would do a collapsible menu without something like javascript unless you’re ok with the page reloading due to each change to the menu. For something where the months appear under a year when selecting it, you’d need a different bit of code than above which queries for years as well months within the current year.

How exactly do I do this? For the months too appear under a year when I select it? I haven’t found any Plugins for this yet.

Now I have the code written in this thread by Kafka and my Archives look like this:

2006
2005
2004

Now I would like it to look like this, selecting 2005

2006
2005
January
February
…
December
2004

How do I do this?
I’m new at PHP-coding but I do know HTML and CSS.

Thanx

Ninis, for that we make use of a bit of the behind-the-scenes info WordPress provides on archive (date-based) queries. As the code by now is a bit long for the forums, here’s a link to it:

https://guff.szub.net/source/sample-39204.php

Let me explain what you’ll see there (that is, what I didn’t add comments to):

The first bit of code scoping the WordPress variables $month and $year to global is why I altered my year query vars to $arc_years/$arc_year.

The second query in the code ($arc_months) collects the months for the current archive year, and goes through a similar foreach loop as for the years, using WP’s get_month_link() to display the monthly archive link.

Note that to display a textual month value (July) rather than a numeric one (7), I do this:

<?php echo $month[zeroise($arc_month, 2)]; ?>

This makes use of the global $month array to match number to name. The zeroise() function assures a two digit number (i.e. 01 — required for a match in the $month array).

Can someone look at https://chris.pirillo.com/ and tell me what his ‘archive’ code would look like?

* 2006
o October (20)
o September (56)
o August (83)
o July (71)
o June (105)
o May (143)
o April (66)
o March (92)
o February (118)
o January (48)
* 2005
* 2004
* 2003
* 2002

“Can someone look at https://chris.pirillo.com/ and tell me what his ‘archive’ code would look like?“

It’s a plugin. In fact, it’s this one:

https://blindmuse.com/blog/2004/03/31/group-archives-by-year/

blindmuse.com has been down for a while, so I’ve posted the source for the plugin here:

https://wordpress.pastebin.ca/209160

Id it possible to show the year and then the postbypost of that year?

2006

* post 12 title
* post 11 title
* post 10 title
* post 9 title
* post 8 title
* post 7 title
…

2005

* post 12 title
* post 11 title
* post 10 title
* post 9 title
* post 8 title
* post 7 title
…

up!

Thank you very much for the trick !
I’m now displaying archives by year, and reversed ??

Hello:
I’m using the Blindmuse plugin for my archives, but now the page won’t validate. I’ve used the plugin from here: https://wordpress.pastebin.ca/209160

The Code:
/*
<h2>Archives</h2>

<?php cg_get_archives_by_year(’24’, ’12’, ‘
• ‘, ‘

‘, ‘

‘, ‘

‘, ‘

‘, ‘

‘, false); ?>

*/

shoot, I can’t get the lis and uls to show up.
It’s located here: https://www.pistolotto.com

You need to surround code with “backticks” – the weird symbol underneath the tilde (the other weird symbol) on the key to the left of the numeral 1 key on US keyboards….

Oh, and this plugin from Viper will do something similar: https://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/clean-archives-reloaded/

Thanks…
Here’s the code:

<h2>Archives</h2>
<ul>
<?php cg_get_archives_by_year('24', '12', '<li>', '</li>', '<ul>', '</ul>', '<ul>', '</ul>', false); ?>
</ul>

Well, you’ll have to play with the nested listing looks like. You might start by removing the enclosing ul tagset, see what happens. This sort of thing is a total trial-and-error mess for me, why I hate nested lists.

And your onload error may not ever go away – I’ve been looking for a fix for that myself, and haven’t found one.