I have received a couple emails from my readers asking me what plugin I use to generate my archives page. Well, truth be told, my archives page is not a plugin. I hard coded that page using Wordpress’ built in template tags. Since there is a lot of interest in this page, I decided to post a walk through of how you can recreate my archives page on your own blog.
All of the code below is show via images for posting reasons. Click the images to view the high res versions of the code. If you would like to cut and paste code, find the link the the text file containing the full code in step 10. I would advise against cutting and pasting because this code is specific to my custom templete and will not display correctly on your blog. It is better to understand everything below so you can customize it to your site.
- The first step to creating your archives page is to understand how the Wordpress template system works. I would recommend your read up on the Wordpress documentation before you proceed. http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes
- What you want to do now, is locate your template directory which is normally at: http://www.yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/yourtheme
- We now need to create a new file called archives.php and upload it to this directory. This file should be blank, but have the name and extension of archives.php.
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My name is Chris Lentz. I started ATLChris.com in July 2008. I am not a journalist; blogging is just something I enjoy doing.
I operate out of Atlanta, Georgia. My goal with this site is to blog about interesteding technology and internet news and some personal stuff too!. I also do product and
software reviews.