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.

Building the model of a WordPress page

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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>

<? 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.

About Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Comments

Pulkit Kaushik says

September 13, 2011 at 8:36 pm

You need to make your posts more reader friendly. I didn’t understand where to find the_content. Try to be more elaborate next time.
Abhishek says

September 13, 2011 at 10:56 pm
You will find
```
the_content
```
within
```
the_loop
```
. You will get reference of both in WordPress Codex.

You are using Elefolio Premium Theme from Woo Themes. Woo Themes uses generic loops. Please contact Woo Themes’ support mentioning this post, they will guide you how to add it.
Christian says

March 7, 2012 at 10:36 am

Although useful, you have made a mockery of the copy/paste by forcing your website credits into the copied text. No one in their right mind would type out the code you have provided.
Abhishek says

March 7, 2012 at 11:55 am

Christian, we understand its a big problem now for the nice innocent users for copying the code parts in guides.

The idea of enforcing url copyright text was to fight the copy-paste bloggers, your comment gave a nice feedback and we will try to exclude the code parts as soon as possible those are getting in to the codes too. Its not only impossible to type out the code as rightly said by you, but also there is a possibility of getting errors if those are not sanitized / chopped out by the new users, specially for php and .htaccess codes.

Again thank you very much for the feedback.
Yogesh says

October 13, 2012 at 12:20 pm

Thanks for this tutorial. When I applied for socialpark, I got rejected just because my blog was not having chronological archive. With your article my blog was approved. Thanks for sharing.
Abhishek says

October 14, 2012 at 6:23 pm

Congrats. Thanks a lot for reporting it back.