Please help! External site by month?

  • Hello. I’m rather new to wordpress, but not completely. I did use blogs in this website
    https://www.bandwagontheseries.com
    that is about the extent of my knowledge on adding it to an existing site.

    Here is my question.
    I’m about to design a site for a customer that is making an Online Comic. She would like to be able to add comics twice a week, herself. So, i figured that wordpress would be the best option. Thats normal. The question I have is this:

    She wants it set up so, if say october ends, she wants to basically wipe out the issues, and start a new month. But also have links on the side, to go to previous months, or technically issues.

    I guess I want to know if there is a way to set up the blog so that it goes by month. The one I have the bandwagon site, i believe shows me 5 blogs, before it kicks them off and starts a new one.

    Also, how do I make the links on the side for previous months?

    thank you so much!

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  • When you reply to your own un-answered post and bump it, you shoot yourself in the foot. Because those of us who help around here look for topics that haven’t been answered yet. Your last post didn’t get any comments because of this very reason.

    Now to your question, those links on the side are called archive. you can have a monthly, or yearly archive to show all the comics. The way to do it is to either hard-code it manually or use the archive widget.(it depends on your site, whether your theme is widget ready or not) Since you are referring that you’re making a site for a customer, i’m assuming that you know what you are doing so i refer you to WP CODEX. You can find all the answers there. https://codex.www.ads-software.com/ (just search for archive and you should be good to go.

    As for number of posts before “kicking out”, you can increase or decrease the number of posts in setting/reading section. To wipe out the whole month, you can use categories, like October, December ,… and only show that particular category on the front page. But that requires changing the setting every month.

    Cheers,

    Chris

    Thread Starter tothestage81

    (@tothestage81)

    Okay. That tells me how to add it to wordpress, but this is an external site. I do know what i’m doing, but I am not familiar with wordpress, and this has to be up and running by the end of this month! I’m super stuck. The blog is working fine, but everything I have tried will not add the archive list on the page.

    Tell me what I need to post in here so you can help me!

    thanks!

    You’re going to have to start looking into using custom queries for this one.
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/WP_Query

    Okay. That tells me how to add it to wordpress, but this is an external site. I do know what i’m doing, but I am not familiar with wordpress, and this has to be up and running by the end of this month! I’m super stuck. The blog is working fine, but everything I have tried will not add the archive list on the page.

    Tell me what I need to post in here so you can help me!

    thanks!

    If your site is not a WordPress site, why are you asking a question on a WordPress forum? Part of your question was WordPress related and i answered that part, and esmi referred you to codex again for more information.

    A web page is a web page, no matter how it was created, Flash, Php, Perl or html doesn’t matter. You can link anything and everything from Mars to Earth and Neptune just with a single line of link code. Then you can style it however you want, vertical, horizontal or backward if you want to.

    But again you say you know what you are doing, so i’m assuming that you know how to link and my help is not necessary. I’m really curious to see what you have tried that didn’t work. And your site address (if live) would help a lot as well.

    If your site is not a WordPress site, why are you asking a question on a WordPress forum?

    Whoops! I missed that! Ok – to fully complete the set of resources needed, see Integrating_Wordpress_with_Your_Website.

    Thread Starter tothestage81

    (@tothestage81)

    If your site is not a WordPress site, why are you asking a question on a WordPress forum?

    @shirazdrum I Ment i am not edting a WORDPRESS THEME in WORDPRESS, I am adding WORDPRESS to my WEBSITE! Is being rude really necessary? You don’t have to be crappy about this, this is a questions section is it not?! This is the first time, i have EVER used wordpress in my life, so I apologize if you just think i’m a moron.

    @esme I have been there, and it does not give me any code for archives. I have the Blog working fine… I just want to add archives….

    I have found this code, and when I use it, it goes to a white screen that informs me that there is an error on line 195.

    https://pastebin.com/embed_js.php?i=WmMBGzac

    I found this here
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/wp_get_archives

    this is the website https://www.whoisripper.com/main.php

    There’s an archives widget built in.

    Appearance -> Widgets.

    Just drag it to your sidebar.

    Thread Starter tothestage81

    (@tothestage81)

    I cant use a widget…. I am using an external site….

    How are you getting the posts to display then? Are you loading the WordPress environment in your code?

    Thread Starter tothestage81

    (@tothestage81)

    Yea, I have coded the loop into the site. I just dont know how to code the archives.

    Then you can code the sidebars into your site too. That’ll give you access to the widgets.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar

    Or you can do what twentyeleven does in sidebar.php.

    Personally I think this will get very messy and it’s probably better for you to create a child theme instead.

    Thread Starter tothestage81

    (@tothestage81)

    So…. what I add the sidebar IN wordpress, and then use that to…grab it? is that whats happening? Im sorry, its just bit iver my head haha.

    I dont really have time to try and create a wordpress theme that matchs my website….this comic is being released the first of october, and im quite short on time.

    thanks for all of your help!

    Yes that’s the idea. You can look into existing themes too see how it’s done.

    Thread Starter tothestage81

    (@tothestage81)

    The blog is this. https://www.whoisripper.com/ep
    Im sorry for being an idiot, and very much appreciate your help. Could you guys tell me where to insert the code from that link? When I do it, i get an error on the line i inserted it on. I was trying to make a table on the right side of the page to show the archives.
    this is the site page im putting it on. IM aware the blog thats currently on there is the News pages blog, that hasnt been changed yet.
    https://www.whoisripper.com/episodes.php

    The PHP code will be more helpful. Use the pastebin.

    What’s the error you get?

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