You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our Categories, Tag Cloud, and Archives widgets do their parts, but we’ve come up with an extra little something that you may care to use.
This little guy will allow you to quickly and easily add a post index to anywhere on your blog (page, post, or text widget). Use the shortcode as is, and it will output a listing of all posts ever published on your blog. But it’s your show, so you get to decide what and how the shortcode generates your post index using a variety of options. Check out a number of examples of the shortcode being used here.
Ever want to see your weekly archives displayed in a drop-down menu? Now you can. Here’s ours:
Ok, I apologize, but this time you stumped me. I read the post, looked at the links and I still am not sure what this is, or what purpose it serves. I can see how looking up all posts on a subject, tag or category would be very useful, but it seems like you are offering us the ability to stick our entire archive or segments of it, by date, into a post. And if I’ve got that right, I just dont get the use.
Before this shortcode, there was no easy way for our bloggers to simply display an archive index of their blog posts (which we received numerous requests for in the past). As such, a customized archive listing of your blog posts is the aim of this feature. If you heavily segment your blog posts via categories or tags, perhaps this is not the greatest thing in the world for your blog, and that’s okay. We’re receiving some decent feedback on the feature, however, and may tweak it in the future to include some more capabilities.
This is a nice feature, and I’m using it already.
It might be nice in the future though to do something like archive by categories or to clean up the category widget in the sidebar, since for me and some, the number of categories tend to increase beyond control after blogging for a while. I really would love to see a collapsing category feature that only reveals child categories upon clicking. (Did that make sense?) Something like that would be nice for archives too, simply because the drop down is fugly.
Still I love archive shortcode and a number of other amazing features. Keep up the good work.
Please add the option to show only one/some category. I have many articles on my blog but some are featured and I would welcome a page to show only those.
Very handy – thanks again WP! One thing on my wishlist is to have an alphabetical sort so that you can do an A-Z index by title of posting. Now that would be doubly cool
I agree with Milo. For me, this feature would be better if we could maybe archive related posts. That way we could show the archives within the same mother category.
You can have a list of months or a list of post titles, but you can’t display both at the same time. Check out the archives shortcode customization options shown on the help page.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Ok, I apologize, but this time you stumped me. I read the post, looked at the links and I still am not sure what this is, or what purpose it serves. I can see how looking up all posts on a subject, tag or category would be very useful, but it seems like you are offering us the ability to stick our entire archive or segments of it, by date, into a post. And if I’ve got that right, I just dont get the use.
August 5th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Before this shortcode, there was no easy way for our bloggers to simply display an archive index of their blog posts (which we received numerous requests for in the past). As such, a customized archive listing of your blog posts is the aim of this feature. If you heavily segment your blog posts via categories or tags, perhaps this is not the greatest thing in the world for your blog, and that’s okay. We’re receiving some decent feedback on the feature, however, and may tweak it in the future to include some more capabilities.
August 5th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Wow, Thanks
August 5th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Thanks! This is something I will have to investigate further
August 5th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
This is a nice feature, and I’m using it already.
It might be nice in the future though to do something like archive by categories or to clean up the category widget in the sidebar, since for me and some, the number of categories tend to increase beyond control after blogging for a while. I really would love to see a collapsing category feature that only reveals child categories upon clicking. (Did that make sense?) Something like that would be nice for archives too, simply because the drop down is fugly.
Still I love archive shortcode and a number of other amazing features. Keep up the good work.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I’m another one who will probably use this when I am able to create archives for tags or categories. Look forward to this.
August 6th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
any short code can used? Tq
August 6th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
You can use any of the shortcodes listed here – is this what you are asking? If not, please contact support with your inquiry.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
best regards wordpress
August 7th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Please add the option to show only one/some category. I have many articles on my blog but some are featured and I would welcome a page to show only those.
Also by tag would be nice.
August 7th, 2009 at 7:13 am
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August 7th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Thanks WP! I’ll try this one.
August 8th, 2009 at 5:17 am
Very handy – thanks again WP! One thing on my wishlist is to have an alphabetical sort so that you can do an A-Z index by title of posting. Now that would be doubly cool
August 8th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Thanx this’ll really helps
August 8th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I agree with Milo. For me, this feature would be better if we could maybe archive related posts. That way we could show the archives within the same mother category.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Great feature!!! Thanks heaps WP!! xD
Its gonna be much much much better if we can also use archives shortcodes to browse posts by categories
August 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
thanks very much for da help
August 11th, 2009 at 2:42 am
You guys… so nice… can I take you home to meet Mom and Dad?
August 12th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Is it possible to have archives ordered by month then into the month the post list?
August 13th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
You can have a list of months or a list of post titles, but you can’t display both at the same time. Check out the archives shortcode customization options shown on the help page.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:40 am
I think I’ll use this. Thanks for ever improving WordPress applications/widgets to make blogging easier. Thank you.
August 13th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Thank — it’s a great feature and I’m using it. I looked at all the options and a GREAT option would be a list of all the posts in alpha order.
August 13th, 2009 at 3:44 am
“I think it’d be better if there’s an option for “random” posts. ”
I second that!!
Nice feature, anyways!!