Date archive for a category

Jaymin Patel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:52:53 +0000

There are a few ideas out there How to build date archive for a category. I am joining the race now.

Some of us, wordpress developers, may think this is hacky but I bet a few will like it this way because this works!.

This idea would end up in url like this

/archives/category/{category-slug}/yyyy/mm/

Lets get started and you can Download code here and you can put that in your active theme’s functions.php file.

I am going to use init hook.

add_action('init','my_date_archive_for_category');

We can check if incoming request contains /archives/category/ inside my_date_archive_for_category function. If it does, this is our category/date archive page.

Now breakup incoming request, and check every part of the request. We need category slug, year and month in place.

$request_parts = explode('/', $request);

Parts of request

Array ( [0] => [1] => archives [2] => category [3] => category-slug [4] => yyyy [5] => mm [6] => )

Here, we need to validate a few parts of the request like category slug, yyyy and mm.

$category_array = get_term_by('slug', $request_parts["3"], "category", ARRAY_A);

Now time to query wordpress.

query_posts(array('cat'=>$category_array["term_id"], 'year'=>$request_parts["4"], 'monthnum'=>$request_parts["5"]));

If we have posts, display them otherwise set a flag which we can use later to show 404 so visitors do not get confused.



if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

........

endwhile;

else:

$is404 = true; /* set the flag so we know no posts found and display 404. */

endif;

DO NOT FORGET to put

exit;

at the end.

Putting exit at the end will end further PHP execution on your blog.

Do not forget to let me know how this works on your blog.

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