Plugins
How to: Creating an Archive page
Many weblog sites these days have some form of an archive page. In WordPress it might be the built in auto generation of permalinks by: /Month/
and /date/
.
But in some blog’s, for instance this one here (as I said in a previous post) you can’t get the post to paginate or link to http://youblog.com/page/2
if you have nice permalinks active or http://youblog.com/?paged=2
.
By any means, In this theme I have to have an archive link at the bottom. So..
Archive WordPress Plugins
There are many plugins which allows you to automatically create an archive page. The good thing is that you’ll (almost) have nothing to do, and the bad thing is that you may not be able to customize your archives much.
On this blog I have decided to use Clean Archives Reloaded by Viper007Bond. Which you can now see active in my Archive’s page.
If you want to use a plugin, here is a small list:
And of coarse you can always..
..do it your self!
First you would have to create a template file by writing this:
<?php /* Template Name: Archive page */ //please add you necessary code here //ie. your hooks and html code ?> <ol id="archive"> <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts(array( 'showposts' => 100, 'offset' => 10, 'order' =>'DES', 'paged' => $paged, )); $wp_query->is_archive = true; $wp_query->is_home = false; if( have_posts() ) : while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php $tit = the_title('','',FALSE); echo substr($tit, 0, 25); ?>...</a> - Posted on <?php the_time('j F Y') ?> - Comments (<?php echo $post->comment_count ?>)</li> <?php endwhile; endif; ?> </ol> ?>
You may notice this code:
<?php $tit = the_title('','',FALSE); echo substr($tit, 0, 25); ?>
from a previous post!
Once saved and pasted it to your archives.php
or template-archives.php
file, upload it on your wp-content/themes/yourtheme/
directory.
Then, in WordPress dashboard, create a new page, name it “Archives” (or whatever you want) and select Archive page as your page template.
enjoy!
Plugins
Search Unleased: A custom WordPress plugin
Most all WordPress theme’s use a a simple search form to search your site. But what it you wanted to search your whole site and not just your posts.
Search Unleashed comes into the picture. Search Unleashed performs searches across all data, including that added by plugins.
Some features of this plugin are:
- Full text search with wildcards and logical operations
- Search posts, pages, comments, titles, URLs, tags, and meta-data (all configurable)
- Search data after it has been processed by plugins, not before
- Search highlighting of all searches, including titles and comments
- Search highlighting of incoming searches from Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Baidu, and Sogou
- Search results show contextual search information, not just a post excerpt
- Record search phrases and display in a log
- Exclude specific posts and pages from results
- Compatible with WP-Cache
- Supports WordPress 2.0.5 through to 2.7
- No changes required to your theme
Plugins
Twitter avatars inside your WordPress comments
Ricardo Sousa, who writes for Smashing Magazine created a great plugin called Twittar.
This plugin will use someones Twitter Gravatar if their email address is not connected with a Gravatar.
For more info check out the full post at Twitter Avatars in Comments: A WordPress plugin
Image credit: Ricardo Sousa
Plugins
WordPress Wiki Plugin
The guys from Instinct whom released the E-Commerce Plugin have release a new plugin today. Dan Milward even went as far as to announce that this plugin was a gift for Matt Mullenweg, seeing how today is his 25th birthday.
The plugin: WordPress Wiki.
Head over to Instinct’s site and check it out.
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