Nested year, month and date archive navigation.

interesting..
try
get_day_link();
get_month_link();
get_year_link();

That could be used if I wanted to cover every single day of every single of every single month of every single year, but I only want to show links for days/months/years that have posts in them.

Surely there is a way?

I did not say you should put it directly,
I said, do a loop function to filter posts, using those hooks to display links.

<ul>
<?php
/**/
$years = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT DISTINCT YEAR(post_date) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post' ORDER BY post_date DESC");
foreach($years as $year) :
?>
	<li><a href="<?php echo get_year_link($year); ?> "><?php echo $year; ?></a>

		<ul>
		<?	$months = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT DISTINCT MONTH(post_date) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post' AND YEAR(post_date) = '".$year."' ORDER BY post_date DESC");
			foreach($months as $month) :
			?>
			<li><a href="<?php echo get_month_link($year, $month); ?>"><?php echo date( 'F', mktime(0, 0, 0, $month) );?></a>
				<ul>
				<?	$days = $wpdb->get_col("SELECT DISTINCT DAY(post_date) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post' AND MONTH(post_date) = '".$month."' AND YEAR(post_date) = '".$year."' ORDER BY post_date DESC");
					foreach($days as $day) :
					?>
					<li><a href="<?php echo get_day_link($year, $month, $day); ?>"><?php echo $day;?></a></li>
					<?php endforeach;?>
				</ul>

			</li>
			<?php endforeach;?>
		</ul>
	</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

This should do the trick. I was looking for the same answer myself and figured I’d add this up. There may be a more efficient way to do this, but that’s what I used to get it working.

This code is really great, is there a way to add an additional layer with post titles?

• 2008

• January

• 15th

• Post title 1
• Post title 2

• 17th

• Post title 1
• Post title 2