Create an archive page listing of articles in WordPress sorted by date

Abhishek Ghosh

By Abhishek Ghosh March 11, 2011 8:38 pm Updated on November 8, 2014

Create an archive page listing of articles in WordPress sorted by date

This tutorial discusses a method to automatically create an archive page in WordPress showing all your articles chronologically by dates.

Create an archive page listing in WordPress by date in WordPress

Recall that, WordPress by default shows archives by month.

To implement this chronological archival page, we will suggest you to use a separate page template to avoid changing your theme. However, you may directly take the challenge to change the standard archive.php file.

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In your theme folder, duplicate the page.php file for reuse the HTML structure of your site. Rename the file for convenience. You might know, we already wrote how to create a PHP file in Windows 7 without any software.

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Paste in the first instance these initial lines of code there by telling it is a WordPress template. First add PHP opening.

Then, just after the command php the_content insert this:

<? php
previous_year $ = $ year = 0; 
$ month = $ previous_month = 0; 
$ ul_open = false;
$ my posts get_posts = ('number posts =- 1 & orderby = post_date & order = DESC');
?>
<? php foreach ($ my posts as $ post):?>
<? phpsetup_postdata ($ post);$ Year = mysql2date ('Y', $ post-> post_date); $ month = mysql2date ('n', $ post-> post_date); $ Day = mysql2date ('j', $ post-> post_date); ?> <? php if ($ year! Previous_year = $ | | $ month! = $ Previous_month)?> <? Php if ($ ul_open == true)?> </ul> <? Php endif;?> <h3> <? php the_time ('F Y');> </ h3> <ul> <? php $ ul_open = true;?> <? Php endif;?> <? Php $ year = $ previous_year; previous_month $ = $ month;?> <li> <span> <? php the_time ('F j');> - </ span> <span> <a href = "<? php the_permalink () ?>"><? php the_title (); ?> </ a> </ span> </ li> <? Php endforeach;?> </ ul>

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<? php

previous_year $ = $ year = 0;

$ month = $ previous_month = 0;

$ ul_open = false;

$ my posts get_posts = ('number posts =- 1 & orderby = post_date & order = DESC');

?>

<? php foreach ($ my posts as $ post):?>

<? phpsetup_postdata ($ post);$ Year = mysql2date ('Y', $ post-> post_date); $ month = mysql2date ('n', $ post-> post_date); $ Day = mysql2date ('j', $ post-> post_date); ?> <? php if ($ year! Previous_year = $ | | $ month! = $ Previous_month)?> <? Php if ($ ul_open == true)?> </ul> <? Php endif;?> <h3> <? php the_time ('F Y');> </ h3> <ul> <? php $ ul_open = true;?> <? Php endif;?> <? Php $ year = $ previous_year; previous_month $ = $ month;?> <li> <span> <? php the_time ('F j');> - </ span> <span> <a href = "<? php the_permalink () ?>"><? php the_title (); ?> </ a> </ span> </ li> <? Php endforeach;?> </ ul>

Remember to save the file on your server via FTP in the /wp-content/themes/YOUR_CURRENT_THEME/

Publication of the chronological archive page

Then log into your WordPress admin and then apply the page template we just created.

You can; for example, create a page named Archive. In the Page Attributes module, select Archive (or what ever the name you used to save the page template) as model:

Create an archive page listing in WordPress by date

Note: You may need to modify the method for themes which uses own or modified platform.

Create an archive page listing of articles in WordPress sorted by date

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Publication of the chronological archive page

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