[archives] should allow more visual archive pages
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The only good thing I saw in Tumblr that is superior to WordPress is the archive page. As you can see on the following link http://andersbateva.tumblr.com/archive , the archive page is divided in monthly sections with previews of each post.
On the other hand, on WordPress, my archive page linked here https://andersbateva.wordpress.com/arquivo/ , it’s only a plain list of post titles. When I configure it to list by months, it instead of creating simple ‘h2’ sections with the correspondent plain list of post titles (what would satisfy me), it makes the archive page become a list of month names, without the posts titles.
I ask that more options of personalization of archive pages come in a future WordPress update. This that I wanted isn’t much difficult to achieve. It would be OK if existed an option of beginning and finnishing of the interval of the archive tag. This way, I would be able, for example, to create yearly sections in my archive page by putting the number of the year (2013) as ‘h2’, and between this header on the top, and the next header (2012) below it, i would insert an ‘archives’ tag with the attribute ‘start=01/01/2013’ and ‘end=31/12/2013′ (or ’12/31/2013’, since WordPress is located in USA), so in this section would exist a plain list of post titles, but only of the correspondent year.
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This may not be what you are looking for, but just pointing out that it is possible to customize the Archives shortcode somewhat by following this support doc. https://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/
On my knitting site I currently have two Archives sections: one by month and the other by post.
I agree the addition of a post thumbnail as an option certainly would be a nice addition and believe it has been requested before.
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Perhaps the Display Posts shortcode would better suit your needs. There you can define adding a thumbnail image. So far it’s been my experience that the “thumbnail” shown is the post’s featured image.
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Thank you very much for the help. But the “image_size” is doing nothing to my archive, the images doesn’t appear. I configured one featured image for my two most recent posts, using the new editor, but the image did not appear on the posts list! On the old editor the “featured image” section does not appears…
I think my theme does not have support for featured image, this feature isn’t listed on it’s presentation page: https://wordpress.com/themes/search/Big%20Brother/ :(
But on the doc page you linked, I could not understand what are the “id”, “posts_per_page” and “taxonomy” (specially the “color” example), can you explain for me?
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ID– every post, page or media you publish has a corresponding ID number. You can find it by hovering your cursor over the item name in the relevant place in the WP Admin Classic dashboard (all posts, all pages, media library) and then looking at the link in your browser’s status bar.
“posts_per_page” Assuming this limits the number of “display posts” on a page. Haven’t tried it.
taxonomy I’m going to tag this for Staff input for a concrete example of how it can be used on WordPress.com websites.
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I tried using the “posts_per_page”, but different pages aren’t created. It shows only one page, there is no way to see other pages.
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… also I noticed you said you had tried setting the featured image, however I did not see featured images in the four most recent posts. Can you try again? If you’re having trouble setting the featured image, let’s focus on that.
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@supernovia
The Big Brother theme does not have featured images https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/big-brother-needs-support-to-the-featured-image-function?replies=4 -
At Tumblr all archive pages look the same, it doesn’t matter which theme you use. Here at WordPress.com the archive pages are dependent on the theme, so it will look different on different themes.
On WordPress.com archives can look awesome too:
https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/This probably won’t be changed for existing themes. But maybe in the near future some theme developer might add awesome archive pages to his/her themes? ;)
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taxonomy I’m going to tag this for Staff input for a concrete example of how it can be used on WordPress.com websites.
Since this is mentioned in the display posts shortcode Support doc, it’d be great to understand a little better how we can use it on WordPress.com (where we don’t have Custom Taxonomy, to the best of my knowledge)
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Hi @justjennifer — great question! You would not be able to add your own custom taxonomies here at WordPress.com. But if a theme has built-in taxonomies outside the typical category and tag taxonomies, you would be able to take advantage of them.
The color=blue example isn’t very concrete, though, and would not work here with any theme I’m aware of. So we’ll remove that section for now, and re-add it when we’ve got a better example or two. Thanks for the heads up, and cheers!
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Oh and we addressed this in a similar post, but since it’s mentioned here: you can (at least right now) add featured images via the new editor. Big Brother doesn’t do anything with them, but they can be used in display-posts. :)
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supernovia, I removed the images after seeing that they did nothing. Strange, now I added to the two most recents and it worked.
Also, why the old editor haven’t the featured image section, and the new have? I think that the old editor is much better.
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On WordPress.com archives can look awesome too
So, michaelvandenberg, can you tell me how to make an archive page like that you posted, without paying? Because Tumblr archives are good and free at the same time.
I know I can use the “div” option, but there is a way to add a “style” parameter?
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@kixty9 I’ve let the developers know the option is not available in wp-admin right now.
re: how to make an archive page, this depends on the theme. Several themes have that option built in. Or, if you’re handy with CSS, you can add a plan that supports it and change the style of your archive pages as you’d like.
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On WordPress.com archives can look awesome too:
https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/So, michaelvandenberg, can you tell me how to make an archive page like that you posted, without paying? Because Tumblr archives are good and free at the same time.
The theme on this Staff blog is a custom theme that is not available to us bloggers.
(The bottom line for me as as WordPress.COM blogger, who has blogged here for over 9 years, is that my stats indicate that my visitors do not show much interest at all in my Archives pages on either of my blogs.)
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@tt – I think there’s room to get creative with the display-posts shortcode and “archives” don’t necessarily need to be archives. If only there were 25 hours in a day (or more!). :)
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@justjennifer
Of course, there’s room for everything, including the kitchen sink and two dashboards and two editors, ;) I have used both the Archives short and the display posts shortcode on static pages. :)
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