Smart Archives Reloaded: Awesome Archives Plugin
You might have seen/tried many plugins to maintain you Archives page. But, Smart archives reloaded plugin is the one with very clean and awesome look and feel.
It displays archives in year and month format with separate links to each of them. It won’t annoy your page with unwanted links and layouts. One great feature in this plugin is, it’s very simple in terms of size and it won’t kill your load time.
This is how it looks when you install it:
Installation: Easy and fast installation
- Just download the plugin
- Unzip and upload it to plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/)
- Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu
- Paste “smart_archives” in HTML view of Archives page (Include Smart_archives in [ ] )
Features: Simple and only useful options
- 3 types of views are there (Block, List and Both views)
- Hyperlinks to each list and each post title
- Exclude specific category option
See my archives page for example. Hope you find it useful! Happy Blogging!
Excellent Plugin Lax. I have posted some plugins in my blog. Check it.
What a simple plugin Lax. Many many thanks yar. I’m yet to create a archives page for my blog.
WIll use this now. Can we get a plugin to show all the post under the specific category as a list.
Anybody has any idea?
@Inkapoint,
Great list you have dude.
@Stestuff,
Sorry i didn’t get you? You mean to say plugin to show you categories as list?
@Lax,
Lax, i mean to say that “I want to all post titles when someone clicks on any of my categories”.
I saw this on dailyblogtips site.
@Stestuff:
Hei, it’s simple. You can Do it in your theme File with a single line.
@Stestuff:
the_permalink() and the_title() are the two functions to call man.
@Inakpoint,
Thanks for the info man.
From where to call these functions? Do we need to write the functions first?
If you don’t mind Can you please give detailed steps? I’m very poor in php and programming.
Btw your site design is ultimate
rocking
@Stestuff,
There is no plugin to serve your needs. Its only possible through hand coding.
That is what DBT has made even.
@Stestuff:
Hei. Thank you very much.
You have to edit your theme’s index.php File. Just send me that from your wp-content/themes/yourtheme/index.php to inkapoint [at] gmail.
I will correct it now itself.
@Inkapoint,
Sent my friend. Thanks for you help.
And also many thanks to Lax as well
@ Inkapoint and Stestuff,
Please share it here also, so that the people following this comments will get benefited.
Thanks to both you guys for having such an useful discussion here.
I use Smart Archives . Never tried out the Reloaded version. This Plug in really rocks.
Hi, thanks for reviewing my plugin.
Could you tell me which browser were you using when you made those screenshots? I want to know because that’s not the way the Settings Page is supposed to look.
@Lax and Stestuff:
I have posted about the Links only Category page in my blog. Check it
@Scribu,
Thanks for coming here dude.
I used Firefox when i took that screenshots. Anything wrong or just layout difference.
@Inkapoint,
Thank you very very much dude. Even i planned to change my index long back. Now i will Do that and ask you if any doubt further
Just different layout (probably because it was WP 2.6).
@Lax,
I am ready to clarify if u have any doubt. Keep rocking.. But it’s not good to Do that if u r thinking about SEO.
@InkAPoint: On the contrary: having only links on categories resolves the duplicate content problem, so it’s actually good for SEO.
@Scribu,
May be. But from the user side also we have to think. User can’t know what’s inside that post link. Atleast a summary of every post is good to attract the users. From SEO side, this is not much a duplication problem. Many top bloggers are using this model as i said only.
Thanks for the plugin Lax. I didn’t knew that there’s a plugin for Archives! I will use it.
@Inkapoint,
Apart from SEO benefits, Its good to have only links in category. Because we can show all the posts in the category at a time without any load problems.
If you want to show with the summary, you can’t show all the posts at one page. even if you Do, it will kill you load time.
@Scribu,
Great plugin you have made dude
@Lax,
It’s all depending upon the users view.
I used it before but I changed to simplest one..