archives – current year in months, previous by year

Maybe not exactly what you want but could you find acceptable, two instances of the template tag, wp_get_archives in your sidebar?

First one:
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=12'); ?>

Second one:
<?php wp_get_archives('type=yearly'); ?>

Good enough for me! I can survive with what that looks like. It makes my sidebar less cluttered with stuff, so, thank you VERY much!! ??

beyondelsewhere.ca (in case you wanted to take a looksee!)

Nice work.

I’ll marked this resolved.

Michael,

I wonder if there’s a better way to do this – I would really just like to show the current year by month and previous years by year

2008
-month
-month
-month
2007
2006

if you use the solution you gave you see 2008 twice

I think this is what you want:

<ul>

<?php wp_get_archives('type=yearly&limit=1'); ?>

<ul>
	<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit='.date('m').'&show_post_count=1'); ?>
</ul>

<?php
$years = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post' ORDER BY post_date DESC");
unset($years['0']);
foreach($years as $year) :
?>

<li><a href="<?php echo get_year_link($year); ?>" title="<?php echo $year; ?>"><?php echo $year; ?></a></li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ul>