archive time period

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  commandeeredbykids · Member · Sep 21, 2009 at 12:18 am

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  I just started posting old journal entries of mine to a WordPress.com blog, and the archive’s default setting is monthly. How do I change that setting to yearly? I’m completely new to this, and I don’t know how to access the code, let alone how to change it.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 21, 2009 at 12:32 am

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  We do not have access to the underlying theme and wordpress PHP script files, so it cannot be changed, but what you can do is create your own using the archive shortcode and a text widget.

  Archives Shortcode

  The code for a yearly archive would be [archive type=yearly]

  That will produce something like this in the body of the text widget:

  2009
  2008
  2007
  2006

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  commandeeredbykids · Member · Sep 21, 2009 at 9:38 am

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  Thank you for the advice. That occurred to me, but can I then somehow delete the existing,monthly archive that’s already cluttering up the sidebar?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 21, 2009 at 3:05 pm

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  Simply remove the archives widget from the sidebar at appearance > widgets.