How To Create Custom Archive Pages for WordPress Blogs Manually And Plugins
Creating Archive Pages for WordPress Blogs
Archiving blog pages is equivalent to organizing your personal book library. It allows all subscribers to browse every single post very easily and quickly. Every archived page provides a professional feel and accelerates the Search Engine Optimization values attached to it.
An archived page is similar to a map which helps in increasing the search options, so that all searchers can access the contents of the site quickly and easily. An archived page is a must for all bloggers using WordPress. You can easily create one archived page by following this simple tutorial.
Creating an Archived Page
An archived page can be created for every user’s WordPress blogs in two different ways. First method involves using the WordPress plug-ins and the second method does it manually. Let us begin creating our first archive using WordPress plug-ins.
Creating an Archive, using WordPress Plug-ins
1. Using Breukie’s Archive Plug-in: Breukei’s plug-in automatically creates a plug-in for every page on the user’s blog. User need not have set anything manually to produce an archived page. [Download Link ]
2. Using Collapsible Archive Widget: The collapsible plug-in creates a widget in the user’s blog. This widget is created in the sidebar of every blog. It can either be extended or collapsed. [Download Link]
3. Using AWSOM Drop down Archive Plug-in: The AWSOM plug-in is very similar to the Collapsible plug-in. The AWSOM plug-in, in addition creates a drop-down carte to display user’s archives. This can be customized to display yearly and monthly archives. [Download Link]
4. Flexo Archives Widget: This widget displays user’s archived pages in yearly fashion. This can also be customized to display monthly archived pages according to the year. JavaScript is used to display the archived pages. [Download Link]
The plug-ins mentioned above is the best and well known plug-ins for WordPress blogs. One can create and exhibit archived pages using plug-ins. To create archived pages manually follow the below steps.
Creating Archived pages manually for WordPress blogs
Manual archived pages can be created manually using two different methods. First method will display every post and its links. Second method displays all archives according to category and month. If you have created a new blog, then you will have to use the first method. If your blog is very old with many posts, then the second method should be used.
To create archived pages for all posts, copy and paste the following code in a notepad file. Save this file as “archives.php”.
<?php
/*
Template Name: Archive page
*/
?>
<?php
$posts_to_show = 100; //Max number of articles to display
$debut = 0; //The first article to be displayed
?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php
$myposts = get_posts(‘numberposts=$posts_to_show&offset=$debut’);
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<li><?php the_time(‘d/m/y’) ?>: <a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
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