Archive (Chateau theme) not displaying Concise format
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My home page (detailed format) is fine, but my archive page isn’t. I posted [archive] as text on my archive page and set my archive format to concise in the theme settings, but it didn’t do anything. Any ideas? Thanks.
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I think the issue is due to a misunderstanding. Here are some of your archives pages, call displaying posts in the concise format:
1. year 2015 posts archives — https://mathricsol.wordpress.com/2015/
2. July 2015 posts archives — https://mathricsol.wordpress.com/2015/7/
3. author archives — https://mathricsol.wordpress.com/author/mathricsol/
4. uncategorize category archives — https://mathricsol.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/.On the other hand, https://mathricsol.wordpress.com/archive/ is a static page, not an archives page.
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Yes. But presently that would be the same address as your “Home” page, which is now your posts page. You could make the homepage a static page, and display your posts elsewhere. To do that, first set up a static home page as described in the support page Set a Static “Home” Page (Front Page), then create and deploy a custom menu that allows you to freely choose and order your menu items from among posts, pages, portfolio projects, category and tag archives pages, external links, etc.
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Sorry, I forgot. You could also leave the “Home” page displaying the full posts, and have the “Archives” page displaying the posts in the concise format. But you’d still need to create a custom menu in order to provide the link to the category page. The static page https://mathricsol.wordpress.com/archive/ is not dynamic, and will not display posts. The corresponding category page might be https://mathricsol.wordpress.com/category/archive/.
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To display all of your posts in a category page, you’d need to assign the same category to each post.
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Hmm… I want my home page to display my latest posts in detailed format, and my archive page to display all my posts in concise format. Given that I have an archive button on the footer that does this, can I not just assign that URL to the archive button on my top menu?
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Given that I have an archive button on the footer that does this…
Not sure what you’re referring to as an “archive button.” Do you mean the “meta” category link? The page it links to, https://mathricsol.wordpress.com/category/meta/, is what WordPress.com refers to as a category page, though I think category archives page would be more appropriate. The page will display all posts that have had the category “meta” assigned to them, and no other posts. Therefore, the only way it will display all posts is if each one of your posts has the “meta” category assigned to it.
Secondly, the default menu may display only links to the “home” page and to static pages. Creating and deploying a custom menu is necessary to include a link to anything else, including a category page, in the header menu.
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On the black strip at the bottom, Under the heading archive it says July 2015, which links to my July posts in concise format. I basically want to link to all posts from the beginning of time, and be able to do that from the main menu on the top bar.
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On the black strip at the bottom, Under the heading archive it says July 2015, which links to my July posts in concise format.
A dated archives page is more limited than a category page. Whether it’s an annual, monthly, or daily archives page, it is limited by the time restriction. So, to take the July 2015 archives page as an example, if your first post is published in July 2015, it will display all of your posts until you publish one in a subsequent month.
I basically want to link to all posts from the beginning of time, and be able to do that from the main menu on the top bar.
What you ask for can be accomplished, as I’ve mentioned above, but including archives pages in a menu requires that you replace the default menu with a custom menu. Have you read the Custom Menus support page?
Your category “All” page may display all posts, but only if you add the “All” category to every post you ever publish.
There is another alternative I’d previously forgotten: using customized display posts shortcode in a static page to create your customized archives page. However, there is a limit of 100 posts that may be displayed by this type of shortcode. Archives shortcode may display all posts, but it doesn’t have the option of including an excerpt.
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Ah, I’ve got it working now. I created an ‘All’ Category that contains all other categories. In the menu section of my settings, not the page section as I previously thought, I selected category instead of page from the list and added child items of all my sub-categories. I now have a working drop down menu in which just clicking archive shows all posts, and clicking any category from the drop down menu brings up all posts in that category.
Thanks for your help though.
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You’re welcome. And thanks for teaching me a new trick!
I didn’t think that subcategory posts would be included in the top-level archives page unless the main category was assigned to each post. Was surprised to find that it worked in my test. I created an “All” category and assigned it to post 1. I created a “News” subcategory of the “All” category and assigned it to post 2. However, I didn’t assign the “All” category to post 2. I didn’t expect that the “All” category page would include post 2, but it does.
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