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Hey, it worked! I just had to clear my cache.

I realize I’ll lose all these changes if I ever update the plugin.

I got this sorted, here’s the code I used:

Browse by month:
<div id="archive"><select name="archive-dropdown" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;">
  <option value=""><?php echo esc_attr( __( 'Select Month' ) ); ?></option>
  <?php wp_get_archives( array( 'type' => 'monthly', 'format' => 'option', 'show_post_count' => 1 ) ); ?>
</select></div>
<br />

Browse by category:
<div id="cats"><?php wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_none=Select category'); ?>

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
    var dropdown = document.getElementById("cat");
    function onCatChange() {
		if ( dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value > 0 ) {
			location.href = "<?php echo get_option('home');
?>/?cat="+dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;
		}
    }
    dropdown.onchange = onCatChange;
--></script>
</div>

Thank you! I found this too, which helped a ton, and I got the top area sorted. https://www.tips4developer.com/wordpress/wordpress-create-custom-widget-area/

AUGH. I always screw up in this forum. I meant to post this in twenty twelve.

[ Moderator note: Closing this thread, you can continue in your other thread. https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/adding-extra-widget-areas?replies=1#post-3814824 ]

Thanks – fixed the class in content-page.php

That’s what I previously thought, and then had a developer yell at me for not using the functions file, so I was worried it was more of a ‘hack’ than an elegant solution.

Anyway, the issue I’m having with this solution, is it removes the ability to add the if statement that only made the styling appear on the posts.

if ( ! is_page() ) { ?>

So my design tampering causes issues on the static pages where the date doesn’t appear. Any ideas for a solution to this?

Sorry for the duplicate, I found it — I was trying to click on the ‘edit’ link under my name and it went nowhere, so I thought I’d messed up.

Anyway, I came up with a bandaid solution for this, by creating a new content.php file for my child theme and posting the entry-meta code in there. Then using absolute positioning with a margin padding the entry title.

However, if anyone has a more elegant solution using the functions file, I’m all ears.

Thanks!

Forgot to mark as solved…

Wonderful! Exactly what I needed – thank you very much!

I was able to edit it so it showed only categories, but I want to add a comment link. So it would read like so:

Filed under: category list Leave a reply

or

Filed under: category list 3 Comments

With ‘leave a reply’ and ‘# Comments’ links to the comment form.

I have icons to use, here is a screenshot of the area in my photoshop mockup I’m slicing from: https://elevensixty.com/meta.png

Sure:

function twentytwelve_entry_meta() {
	// Translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma.
	$categories_list = get_the_category_list( __( ', ', 'twentytwelve' ) );

	// Translators: used between list items, there is a space after the comma.
	$tag_list = get_the_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentytwelve ) );

	$date = sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time></a>',
		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() )
	);

	$author = sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author">%3$s</a></span>',
		esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
		esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'twentytwelve' ), get_the_author() ) ),
		get_the_author()
	);

	// Translators: 1 is category, 2 is tag, 3 is the date and 4 is the author's name.
	if ( $tag_list ) {
		$utility_text = __( 'Filed in %1$s  ', 'twentytwelve' );
	} elseif ( $categories_list ) {
		$utility_text = __( 'Filed in %1$s  ', 'twentytwelve' );
	} else {
		$utility_text = __( 'Filed in %1$s  ', 'twentytwelve' );
	}

	printf(
		$utility_text,
		$categories_list,
		$tag_list,
		$date,
		$author
	);
}
endif;

Nobody? This is truly bizarre – I’ve never seen the issue before.
Specific instance: https://verybaby.com/blog/ta-da/
You can see it says “one response” but no comments show. The response is a pingback which has been approved in the admin to display.

Of course I have pings enabled on the post.

Yes

I hadn’t noticed the pages were excluded, thanks so much for that – some others I tried made them show.

For anyone else, looking to exclude a category from the archives (I didn’t want my sideblog stuff to clog everything up) find

$rawposts = get_posts( 'numberposts=-1' );

and change it to:

$rawposts = get_posts( 'numberposts=-1&category=-YOURIDHERE' );

Change YOURIDHERE to your category ID, mine was 34.

Thanks!

Ugh, just kidding, can’t post over there unless you’re a moderator.

Looking at this: https://wpbits.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/a-look-at-wordpress-filters-disable-wpautop-on-post-formatting/

Anyone know *which* filter would need to be turned off? I don’t want all HTML to be disabled, just the automatic line breaks.

Help, anyone?