Customizing Archives Widget

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  skyblueguy · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 1:37 pm

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  Can I customizing the appearance of the Archives Widget at my site?

  The current Archives Widget looks like the following:
  http://skyblueguy.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/archive_current.jpg

  Can I change it to a tree format as in the following image?
  http://skyblueguy.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/archive_tree.jpg

  Thanks.

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 2:33 pm

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  Doing that is a bit more than just customizing the appearance. You would need to change functions in order to change a bulleted list into a dynamic tree and that would require editing code other than CSS (which WordPress.com does not offer as an option).

  The WordPress.com archives widget does have options to display in a list or a dropdown or to add counts in case either of those things interest you. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/archives-widget/

  There is also an archives shortcode, it doesn’t have a tree view either, but it might be useful for displaying a little more of a customized list of archives. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/

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  skyblueguy · Member · Nov 1, 2012 at 9:30 pm

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  Thanks for your support.