archives

You don’t, archive-post.php doesn’t exist, it’s just archive.php, and on most sites the post archive is the root of the site, aka /. Depending on how you’re viewing posts it’ll use home.php, front-page.php, index.php, etc. You should refer to the template hierarchy diagram, but remember, the standard post post type is a special case, as … Read more

Use the widget_archives_args filter to add the archives limit. function my_limit_archives( $args ) { $args[‘limit’] = 12; return $args; } add_filter( ‘widget_archives_args’, ‘my_limit_archives’ ); And to limit the number of months in Archives widget dropdown use the following drop down filter. add_filter( ‘widget_archives_dropdown_args’, ‘my_limit_archives’ );

The Simple Yearly Archive Plugin does just that. This code will also do the trick: <?php // get years that have posts $years = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT YEAR(post_date) AS year FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type=”post” AND post_status=”publish” GROUP BY year DESC” ); foreach ( $years as $year ) { // get posts for each year $posts_this_year = … Read more

Because an “archives” Page is not an archive index of blog Posts, but rather a Page. An “archives” page is simply a custom Page template, which applies to a static Page. The is_archive() conditional returns true if an archive index is being displayed. An archive index page displays Posts, not static Pages. EDIT Instead of … Read more

If you want to get the month of the current archive page you’ll have to use single_month_title. The following code will output ” August 2014″ (notice the space before the month) <?php single_month_title(‘ ‘) ?> Without a space before the month: <?php echo trim(single_month_title(‘ ‘,false)) ?> Read more: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/single_month_title