WordPress Plugin: Smart Archives Reloaded

For a long time I was planning to change the layout of the Archives page on BioTecK.net. If you don’t have an Archives page and you don’t know how to create one; then you could follow the steps mentioned in “How To Create An Archives Page“.

At first I wanted to use the Accordion function of the jQueryui.com but as that didn’t worked out as I wanted too and I decided to look for another solution. The main goal for doing this was just accessibility and making sure that the visitor would get a nice overview of the post ordered by year, months etc in some nice looking way.

Now a couple of weeks later, yeah lack of time, I think I’ve found the solution; Smart Archives Reloaded. Smart Archives Reloaded allows you to display a list of posts grouped by year and month using a multi-level implementation of the jQuery Tools Tab Control.

Once you’ve downloaded & activated the plugin you can adjust the settings to your need under Settings – Smart Archives Page. In order to display your post on your Archives page you need to:

1. Create a page and add the following shortcode, without the “”, to the content of your page and publish it.

["smart_archives"]

1. OR you could use the following PHP tag anywhere in your theme. As I already had an Archives Page Template I choose for this method.

<?php smart_archives(); ?>

By doing this you’ll get a nice Archives Page which will look like this:

This looks pretty cool, right?
So if you’re looking for a nice solution to display your posts on an Archive page, then you should give Smart Archives Reloaded a try.

About Behrad:

I'm 29 years "old", married to Jannie and about to be a daddy! We live happily in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
In 2006 I started BioTecK.net just to show/share my portfolio. After a while I started to blog about my experiences and stuff I do in my life, my interests; computers & computer related stuff, tips & tricks and basically everything which I want to share.
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