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:
Add the ability to list by tag and/or category, along with some more display options (like order), and then you’d have a very useful tool! I’m one of those ‘static’ front page people, and what I need is the ability to auto-generate Contents listings.
love it i mean shortcodes isn’t there any plugin, for the standard wordpress.com shortcodes to be functional in a wordpress install or for that matter a MU install, it is a great little (?) tool, i want standard wordpress.com shortcodes as a plugin for wordpress install, some one should work on it and sure that someone is not going to be me ;), great feature, just makes wordpress.com much more deightful
Nice Feature. Though I can’t imagine how it will be useful enough! People tend to remember the post titles better than dates…so if I (or a visitor) would be looking for a particular post I’d rather like to look at the post titles than the weeks 😐
But anyways, for the calendar-esque memory ppl. its a great feature.
Ah, excellent. Had for months entertained, with despair deepening with every post, the thought of doing something like this manually.
A suggestion: It would be nice to have an option to reverse the order (oldest to newest), and maybe to add post dates and categories before/after the title of each post. And, like suggested above, if one could archive-shortcode-list just the posts in a single category (or, to be crazy mad ambitious, all posts NOT in a given category), well, that would be triple-Burns eehxcellent.
You WordPress people are made of chocolate and awesome. (The preceding is an impartial and absolutely correct fact by decree.)
Another vote here for archive by category/archive by tag abilities. About the only way to do this now is to manually create lists, which then requires cleaning up all the unwanted self-pingbacks generated.
I’ll look into it, but I’m pretty happy with my page “Table of Contents” which I do manually. Ooops, it is missing the last post. …which I intend to do manually. 🙂
I also second the vote for the option to have the list go oldest to newest. My readers already see my newest post when they first come to my blog. I’d like for new readers to be able to click on the archives page and start reading my posts starting from the beginning. Thanks again.
Already used the contact-form and sourcecode shortcodes, the sourcecode especially made the life easy. others are really great. A customizable short code feature would be great, something like a macro, then a lot copy paste codes could be avoided just by typing the shortcode macro assigned to it.
The real value in this would be if it could list/drop-down a particular _TYPE_ of post (i.e. by tag or category), so readers could find all _related_ content to the post it appears in. For example – I do book reviews, I do TV reviews, I do theatre reviews – and I tag and categorize these accordingly.
If you could specify by category or tag this would be really useful and really powerful. I am far, far less interested in a whole year’s worth (or ‘last 18 days’) of posts showing, that just wouldn’t be useful and the default archive month drop-down is fine for that.
Unless you can segment the archive then I don’t – personally – see the value.
Thanks for the feedback. It’s certainly possible to enhance this shortcode in the future, and we have been receiving some good ideas with this launch (like yours).
I don’t think I completely understood the concept, or if I’ll ever use it, but once again thanks for the improvements and for making us proud for blogging with WordPress! 😀
I’m wondering if none of this really works in the wordpress.com Andreas04 theme that I use. The tags and categories of that theme both go to the wordpress tag collection of everyone’s blog posts on wordpress.com with that tag, instead of, for instance, the categories going to a collection of all my own posts on that topic.
Will the archive shortcode be just as wild for Andreas04?
The shortcode will work with all themes here at WordPress.com. If you are still having problems, however, please contact support, and we’ll have a look.
Great news. I have already tested it and it’s amazingly useful.
I have done a detailed sitemap page with short descriptions and for that I had to hand pick every post link.
It was not easy. Now, it’s even easier and I’m so very pleased.
Thank you.
Now, because I think it’s possible 🙂 I would like to ask you to add something like category or tags so that I can generate the list of all those “one particular tag (or category)” on a page. This could be useful at the end of a post if one wants to list the other similar posts for the readers.
I hope I’m not causing too much trouble.
What we still want is the option to have clicks on the blue “filed in” under our blogposts just bring up posts in that category in our blog and not in all of WordPress.
Ditto to all the comments about categories. I regularly send people links to category pages, but these can be a little hard to generate. Would be nice to just have a menu system so people can find all posts from key categories really easily.
wow, great! I was just checking my archives and realized when I changed themes recently (to Vigilance which i LOVE) I lost my widget so now I will bring in this new cool device onboard!
I used the shortcode for audio and videos of Youtube, but I had no idea that there were so many! The est of all is this one that organizes my archive that accumulate over time and are difficult to find. It’s really very good!
hello clever person/s
does this mean i need to open each past posts, in edit mode, to activate this nifty little [big] AS [archive shortcode]?
if so i just don’t have the time – too overwhelming a thought!
cheers
cape town
You would only need to add the shortcode to each of your past posts if you wanted to display the archive index within each of them. What many users will do is simply create a new page on their blog (Pages -> Add New) and call it “Archives”. They will then add the shortcode to this page to display the blog’s complete (or customized) archive listing. If you’re still a bit confused, please contact support, and we will take a closer look.
This shortcode will not enable the importing of any content from another blog service. Please see https://wordpress.com/support/import/ for our available importing tools.
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Don’t know if I’ll use this, but thanks anyway!
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Oh, my – thank you WP!!!! I’ve been wanting something like this!
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Sounds like it might be useful so I’ll definitely look into it. Thanks : )
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FINALLY! 😀 thanks wordpress x
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It would be great if we could choose a certain categorie too, don’t you think ?
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Will surely use it. Thanks! 😀
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Yowza! WP is coming up with so many new improvements lately I can’t get them in place fast enough and still have time to blog! Way to go!
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faster and faster! I love it! 🙂
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Nice feature, thanks!
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Fantastic, thank you very much !
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Add the ability to list by tag and/or category, along with some more display options (like order), and then you’d have a very useful tool! I’m one of those ‘static’ front page people, and what I need is the ability to auto-generate Contents listings.
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Not sure, this feature is of use to me. But, thanks anyway 🙂
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love it i mean shortcodes isn’t there any plugin, for the standard wordpress.com shortcodes to be functional in a wordpress install or for that matter a MU install, it is a great little (?) tool, i want standard wordpress.com shortcodes as a plugin for wordpress install, some one should work on it and sure that someone is not going to be me ;), great feature, just makes wordpress.com much more deightful
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Ah, very good. That may make things a lot easier.
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On testing, is there any way of breaking up the dropdown option any? There are tag clouds already, so perhaps in alphabetical order?
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Currently, there are no advanced ordering options available, but these could certainly be added in future iterations of the shortcode.
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I’ve to try it… for sure… ;-p
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Nice, I’m gonna look into this.
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Nice improvement – already implemented now – thanks!
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That’s so cool!
Sam
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Nice Feature. Though I can’t imagine how it will be useful enough! People tend to remember the post titles better than dates…so if I (or a visitor) would be looking for a particular post I’d rather like to look at the post titles than the weeks 😐
But anyways, for the calendar-esque memory ppl. its a great feature.
Keep it up!
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Take a look at https://wordpress.com/support/archives-shortcode/ . The default functionality of the shortcode will actually display post titles. The format is entirely up to you.
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I liked the original Archive feature, but I will give it a try. Nothing ventured …etc
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It seems it might be useful. I’ll try out, thanks.
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Nice! Good addition.
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I’m ecstatic about this one, as now all themes can have an archive page. Thanks!
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Ah, excellent. Had for months entertained, with despair deepening with every post, the thought of doing something like this manually.
A suggestion: It would be nice to have an option to reverse the order (oldest to newest), and maybe to add post dates and categories before/after the title of each post. And, like suggested above, if one could archive-shortcode-list just the posts in a single category (or, to be crazy mad ambitious, all posts NOT in a given category), well, that would be triple-Burns eehxcellent.
You WordPress people are made of chocolate and awesome. (The preceding is an impartial and absolutely correct fact by decree.)
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sounds good cant wait to try it out
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Another vote here for archive by category/archive by tag abilities. About the only way to do this now is to manually create lists, which then requires cleaning up all the unwanted self-pingbacks generated.
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I’ll look into it, but I’m pretty happy with my page “Table of Contents” which I do manually. Ooops, it is missing the last post. …which I intend to do manually. 🙂
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heh – This is a nice feature, but it totally fails in feeds.
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The shortcode should now simply output
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this looks very useful. grazie
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Great! Many thanks 🙂
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I love it! Can’t wait to see what my readers think of it. Thanks.
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I also second the vote for the option to have the list go oldest to newest. My readers already see my newest post when they first come to my blog. I’d like for new readers to be able to click on the archives page and start reading my posts starting from the beginning. Thanks again.
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This looks great. I’ve seen things like this on other blogs and would like to try this.
Thanks w.p. Keep on going.
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Just lovely! I just tried the `` shortcode in two posts.
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Neat! You just keep the perks rollin’! Thank you! Now, to try it out……
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I love archives, so I’ll probably use this as is, but I second (or third) the many who would love to sort the posts by category or tag. Thanks!
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Ohh thanks… if i speak english can say more…
But thanks some.
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Great option
but if there ability to display posts by categories, it will be very good
Thanks alot for this shortcode
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Would it be possible to list archive based on a category? or a Tag?
thanks for constantly trying to improve an already excellent platform!
Arun
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Great feature! Thanks.
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Great Stuff
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very useful. exactly what i’m looking for. thank you WP! ❤
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This is nice. I ll use it. Thanks.
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This is wonderful! Thank you.
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how to add date in archive postbypost. its only show title.
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Currently, the ‘postbypost’ format will only display the post title.
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I’ll try it.
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I’ll see how it works. Thanks.
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I was waiting for stuff like this. Thanks…
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yet another way to keep readers reading our blogs…..
cheers you are stars,
x
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I find this extremely useful, thank you!
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It could be even more useful if there is an option for Alphabetical order and selection by category.
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Already used the contact-form and sourcecode shortcodes, the sourcecode especially made the life easy. others are really great. A customizable short code feature would be great, something like a macro, then a lot copy paste codes could be avoided just by typing the shortcode macro assigned to it.
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love it, thank you, helping my awesome blog grow
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The real value in this would be if it could list/drop-down a particular _TYPE_ of post (i.e. by tag or category), so readers could find all _related_ content to the post it appears in. For example – I do book reviews, I do TV reviews, I do theatre reviews – and I tag and categorize these accordingly.
If you could specify by category or tag this would be really useful and really powerful. I am far, far less interested in a whole year’s worth (or ‘last 18 days’) of posts showing, that just wouldn’t be useful and the default archive month drop-down is fine for that.
Unless you can segment the archive then I don’t – personally – see the value.
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Thanks for the feedback. It’s certainly possible to enhance this shortcode in the future, and we have been receiving some good ideas with this launch (like yours).
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I don’t think I completely understood the concept, or if I’ll ever use it, but once again thanks for the improvements and for making us proud for blogging with WordPress! 😀
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I am using it now. Too good!
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Wonderful thing – thank you, WordPress.
Now, how about a shortcode or something that can put all of my 700-odd tags up on a page, rather than my top 40-odd. Or have I missed something?
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I’m wondering if none of this really works in the wordpress.com Andreas04 theme that I use. The tags and categories of that theme both go to the wordpress tag collection of everyone’s blog posts on wordpress.com with that tag, instead of, for instance, the categories going to a collection of all my own posts on that topic.
Will the archive shortcode be just as wild for Andreas04?
Or maybe I’m not getting this… ?
Thanks, guys!
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The shortcode will work with all themes here at WordPress.com. If you are still having problems, however, please contact support, and we’ll have a look.
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WP more complete. Thanks.
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I think this is great. I know that one day soon I am going to use it! It’s something I have always wanted.
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Nice job! Hope it could show postbypost with date someday! Thank you.
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I think this is a good new add on
Thanks guys AKA goodday7
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Excellent thank you,
got it up and running
after a few false starts
you might consider clarifying the instructions a bit
the equal sign noted in the example from the first link you send people to is not necessary
is there a way to have a similar drop down list for the “pages” widget
doing so would help provide a cleaner look to those that seek it
cheers
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Hi Nick,
Great news. I have already tested it and it’s amazingly useful.
I have done a detailed sitemap page with short descriptions and for that I had to hand pick every post link.
It was not easy. Now, it’s even easier and I’m so very pleased.
Thank you.
Now, because I think it’s possible 🙂 I would like to ask you to add something like category or tags so that I can generate the list of all those “one particular tag (or category)” on a page. This could be useful at the end of a post if one wants to list the other similar posts for the readers.
I hope I’m not causing too much trouble.
Thank you, once again.
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Pretty cool feature!
thank you very much
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God bless you! I have wanted this feature very badly for sometime now.
Thanks a ton.
Satya
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Awesome feature! Definitlygoing to use it again.
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What we still want is the option to have clicks on the blue “filed in” under our blogposts just bring up posts in that category in our blog and not in all of WordPress.
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wp rocks day by day
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Hi thanks for this new feature.
I think it’d be better if there’s an option for “random” posts.
Thank you
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I’m getting more and more convinced of its utility.. No, reread: I think I’ll definitely use it in the future! 😀
WP rules!
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Seems interesting, I will definitely look into this further. I’m all for making my job easy and making my viewer’s experience less difficult! Thanks.
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AWESOMENESS!!!
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ow.. thank you very much
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Nice feature, thanks!
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Ditto to all the comments about categories. I regularly send people links to category pages, but these can be a little hard to generate. Would be nice to just have a menu system so people can find all posts from key categories really easily.
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wow, great! I was just checking my archives and realized when I changed themes recently (to Vigilance which i LOVE) I lost my widget so now I will bring in this new cool device onboard!
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I like! Thanks WP!
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I will definitely use this feature. I’m another one who would like to be able to include post date/time as well as post title in the generated list.
I also saw someone commenting on only the top tags appearing in the tag cloud, and I would also like to be able to generate a complete tag list.
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so nice….awesome
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useful to me
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I used the shortcode for audio and videos of Youtube, but I had no idea that there were so many! The est of all is this one that organizes my archive that accumulate over time and are difficult to find. It’s really very good!
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Very Very nice!! Thanks so much =)
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is there a WordPress for Dummies yet??
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Yep! The second edition was released earlier this year 🙂
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what a great stuff,
thank you WP,
best regards.
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Thank you, WordPress!
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Big smooch from me, WordPress! I love the new [archives] shortcode … and it was so easy that even I could do it!
Thank you.
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Sounds great.
Thank you … WordPress.
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This post in my blog clearly explains the use of this new feature. http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/building-a-post-index-at-wordpress-com-with-archives-shortcode/ I have created my own index page to all posts manually and have been adding each post to it after publication. Thank you very much for the feature. It’s great. 🙂
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Thanks to wordpress
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hello clever person/s
does this mean i need to open each past posts, in edit mode, to activate this nifty little [big] AS [archive shortcode]?
if so i just don’t have the time – too overwhelming a thought!
cheers
cape town
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You would only need to add the shortcode to each of your past posts if you wanted to display the archive index within each of them. What many users will do is simply create a new page on their blog (Pages -> Add New) and call it “Archives”. They will then add the shortcode to this page to display the blog’s complete (or customized) archive listing. If you’re still a bit confused, please contact support, and we will take a closer look.
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L O N G
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W O R D P R E S S…
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Cool, can I use to transfer my web logs from AOL?
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This shortcode will not enable the importing of any content from another blog service. Please see https://wordpress.com/support/import/ for our available importing tools.
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Thanks Nick, seems useful.
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