Awesome..I suggest you include the scriptaculous effects in your next upgrade

Hey that is actually a cool suggestion. I’ll try to see whether I can utilize the scriptaculous js files already distributed with WordPress

This is great, but is there any way to change the format so it displays the full month (eg. August 2007 rather than Aug 2007)?

(Apologies if this is a really stupid question as my tech knowledge is next to non-existent)

Andy, no that is a very good and valid question. Currently that is not possible because of the way I code it. However I will add it soon to the next version as a setting option. That’s actually very easy to implement. I’ll let you know when the new version is ready.

Cheers

Andy: I have added an option to disable month name abbreviations.

I have also included script.aculo.us as suggested by Ashruffz

Many thanks; I appreciate your time and effort. Take care.

Just dropped it into my website. I’ve been wanting this capability for a while, and just finally got time to go looking.

Good work!

Any chance in an upgrade to also show individual post titles under the months in collapsible style as well.

Ie:
2007
-August
–This is one post
–This is another post
-September
–This is one post
–This is another post

Thanks for the fantastic plugin!

Mycal: That is very possible however don’t you think it’ll be too much for the sidebar? Anyway I think that is not for me to decide, it’s for the users. I’ll add that capability to the next version ASAP.

hello
you’re pluggin widget is just wonderful !! It rocks!
however, i’d like to use it for “categories”. I tried hard but I just don’t manage to change the code so that it works for ‘categories’.
Would you help me? Thank you !

Kalilive:

This plugin does not handle categories, and might probably be broken now with WordPress 2.3. Isn’t there any existing plugins that handle categories in the same way? If not I can consider writing one.

Anyway, I am analyzing compatibility with WordPress 2.3 now. I’ll let you know.

Since this plugin does not use the database extensively, it was not effected by WordPress 2.3 database change. But a minor fix for scriptaculous includes has been made to version 2.0.1

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I agree, this is a lovely widget, but I’d also like to see functionality that allows for the individual posts themselves to appear in the list of archives. Also, it seems to make more sense from a usability standpoint to automatically expand the current month’s list of posts to give the reader some orientation. (Blogger’s hierarchical archives widget is a good example of exactly this sort of thing.)

In fact, I have a project on which this functionality would be welcomed very soon. If I get around to it, would you mind accepting a patch for this feature, Ady?

Thanks again for a lovely head start and a great widget.

Hi!
Great plugin!
And I am also interested in a plugin for Categories!

/magnus, stockholm, sweden

Thanks all for your kind words and suggestions. I shall try to find time to fork this project into categories (in a separate plugin).

Meitar: sure if you don’t mind me changing it later as I am very particular about code readability and cleanliness

Another vote for individual posts and show current month. Great plugin.

I’d love to use this plugin, but want to show uniformity with my category list. So, I’ll cross my fingers and hope that this gets forked over into that. I was using WP-dTree, but that ceased to function with the taxonomy of WP 2.3. Also, that plugin hasn’t been developed in over a year with no way to contact the author. So, I’m hoping ady can come up with something.

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I have updated the plugin to version 2.1 with these new features:

1. Ability to display posts (please see warning above)
2. Ability to have the list expanded by default
3. Plus and minus signs for collapse/expand

I had some help from Meitar for the posts. Thank you.

For the categories, I am thinking of a separate plugin. Can you give suggestions on how it should work? Categories expand to posts as a tree?

Cat1
- post1
- post2
Cat2
- post3
- post4

Like that?

Thanks alot Ady!

This plugin is everything I want now (since I don’t use categories). It was well worth the wait for the post names. Again, thanks a lot and absolutely love the plugin. Keep up the fantastic work!

Thanks a lot!

Is it possible to add a setting that makes the current month expanded and the rest collapsed by default?

Great plugin! But I’m getting an “effect not dfined” JavaScript error. Any idea?

Mycal: Glad you liked it.

Daniel: Yes, I’ll try to find time to update.

Michael: Most probably your WordPress does not come with scriptaculous. An old version? Let me know what version of WordPress you are currently using.

It’s working great now. Thanks!

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Is it possible call the archive manually instead of using the widget?

I second Michael’s question. It would be great to call this from your sidebar as a php function, as opposed to just using it as a widget.

Hi and thanks for the great plugin! One feature request. Not sure if it’s possible, just throwing out the idea.

It would be nice if it would output all posts as the original Archive does if a user with JavaScript disabled visited the site.

Well thanks again!

Firstly sorry for the delay in responding, I have been unable to even look at the blog lately.

Michael and Tweakenout: I hear you, but I can’t promise when I can make the necessary changes. One thing I know is that the management (settings) have to go somewhere. A simple thing about widgets is that the settings are consolidated into the widgets page itself.

Ola: I think that is possible using the noscript tag, I’ll experiment more if I can find time.

Thanks a lot for great widget. One more voice to make it for category’s as well. It would be very useful for making WP even more CMS-like. Cheers and a little stumble for you to get you some traffic.

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Hi ady, neat little plug-in here. I do have one question though, would it be possible to make a sister plug-in for the blogroll/links?

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good one… thanks for developing this… is it possible to limit the archive listing to a particular category? tnx

I can’t get the widget title showed up. anyone having the same problem?

I have a question regarding duplicating your archive widget. As it stands, I install and activate your awesome plugin and I get a single widget. However, I have different sidebar templates for my landing page, single post view and archives view. I would like to add your widget to all three, but can’t because I’ve given one instance. I’ve tried another plugin that is suppose to duplicate widgets, but my dupes of Collapsible Archive don’t display. Any ideas on how I can increase the widget availability to 3 instances, one for each of my sidebars?

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I’m using your arquive plugin on my blog but it does not support portuga characters. ç á ó in exemple are replaced by strange characters. Could you fix it plz? My blog is http://hikarinet.info

tnx

wow that was FAST!
tnx a lot!

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Looks like a really great widget. Is there php code I can put in my sidebar as an alternative to using it as a widget? I’m working on a new theme but the widget of course appears in my current theme

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this sounds like a great plug-in that will do exactly what i want – but where do i download it??? i can’t for the life of me find a download link that works : (

Many thanks for this great awsome widget! I spent hours on searching and searching… and here it is I got one question: Is it possible to add a setting that makes the current year (months so far) expanded and older years collapsed by default? Can I use own pics instead of plus/minus? Thanks!

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hi ady,

thanks for the nice plugin.

just a quick suggestion: can you use the function wp_enque_script(); for the scripts instead of including them manually. – this would avoid doubled calls…

greetz,
berny

@berny: thanks I shall consider that for the next release. I’ve never seen that function in the API before… perhaps I overlooked it.

hi ady,

thanks for the quick reply. – i think that this function is still not really well documented.

btw. last night i included your plugin in my sandbox to verify the generated output. unfortunately, the code produced is not valid xhtml. i tried all three options (br, p, ul). the reason is that you’re immediately closing the html tag (eg. li) after the year.

i hope that you got some time to fix that, because i like your plugin but also rely on valid code.

cheers,
berny

@berny: Guilty as charged. I admit I never really validate the output when writing the plugin. To make this happen I shall be validating code with WordPress default theme, some of the time theme authors also takes valid code for granted.

Hello. I was wondering if you had the previous version available for download. The new version automatically enqueues a lot of scripts which I don’t want loaded.

I made an ugly mistake in the plugin when not using scriptaculous. A fix is being written.

A fix has been made. JavaScript will only be enqueued by this plugin if effects are enabled.

@Rishi: I’ve emailed you the older version. I have just started using tags so now versions are available here.

hi ady,

thanks heaps for the quick re-coding. now everything works and validates like a charm.

i modified your plugin a bit to include the html-arrow-characters instead of the images. – here’s the code snippet if you want to use it (as an option for example )…


$ara_collapsible_icons['plus'] = '►';
$ara_collapsible_icons['minus'] = '▼';


furthermore, i head another look at the produced code. – imho you could save a lot of locs if you would use a js-function instead of having the js-code within each onclick function.

anyway, thanks once more and keep up the good work!

greetz,
berny

I can’t resist simple updates. I have upgraded the plugin yet again, to version 2.2.1.1

The items in the TODO list are bigger so that would take some time

hi ady,

that looks great! – the js-functions reduced the payload of my page by 15kb!

thanks once more and greetz to malaysia,
berny

Love the widget, but I was wondering if it was possible for plugin to generate css tags, currently the styling is hampering the visual style that I am going for. Otherwise I love the app.

@Alex: would you mind providing an example? Do I assume that users know CSS?

Ady. I apologize for my wording. I was working late. I meant if the Plug-in could provide markups so they can be styled via CSS. Like generating custom or predefined classes and id’s.

Say for each story link,
currently ” IES Light Fix : mel ”
changed 2 “….”

and say the headers changed 2

I see that you have id’s already in the ul and in the spans, but they are very specific, and figure its used to make the plugin work, but if there was a generic id that could be added along with it.
Kinda new to this stuff, but I would hate to modify my style.css to change the coloring for each individual branch.

-Alex

I agree with Ian up there. I think this is an excellent plugin and I was wondering if there was any chance of a sister-plugin for blogroll/links/categories?

Again, great work. Thanks.

Good day. Tell please, how i can insert plugin into my sidebar. I have a non widgetized theme

I see in the documentation that you have listed the ability to change the list type: li, p, br. I don’t see anywhere in the widget where this can be set – was this function removed? Thanks!

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great plugin you made !
is there a way to display the previous year instead the currrent year ? (changing the plugin code ?)

thank you
be well
jG

I will consider that in the next version, not sure when but I do have plans to improve it further and add requested features.

Is anyone using this plugin successfully with WordPress 2.7 yet?

This site is running 2.7 and the plugin is on the main page

Searched high and low for an archive showing individual posts, at last striking it rich, thanks. I’ve got to confess, I’m a little intimidated by the combined technical know-how embodied in the foregoing questions and answers, however here goes.
1. For sites with limited number of posts stretching over years, is there a possibility to omit the month/year heading and show posts only instead, IOW to be given the choice to use or not to use the month/year?
2. If WP is set to show the last (say) 10 posts (Settings/Reading), it’s hardly necessary to include them in the archives shown on Home page. Let alone the current exclusive expand setting for month/year. For my purposes it would be advantageous to expand previous (in lieu of current) posts only, with the choice of adding year or even month when needed later. Could I do something about this myself? On second thoughts rather not if at all avoidable.
Hope this makes sense. (If not possible, it certainly will not distract from the usefulness of your plugin/widget as is)
ernst

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Regards,
Murali

If you’re new to bloggong how come the blog contains posts back from the previous years? Your comment is not related to the post, and is purely for advertising your blog. It’s insulting.

Wow… that’s long, and yes that makes sense. However it’s too complicated to be implemented. But I will surely consider it for the next release. Thanks.

Can I use this plugin with earlier versions of WordPress????

Please answer……because I like the previous version…..not this 2.7

Yes, 2.1 or higher.

Hi Ady, thank you so much for this plugin. Quick question: is there a way to insert a space between the icon/arrow and the date? They’re a little too close for comfort in my theme.

Yeah, but it’s too small to update as a new version. I think it’s ugly too. If you’re feeling adventurous you can edit the file collapsible-archive.php line 421 and 422:

From:

421
422

$ara_collapsible_icons['plus'][1] = '►';
$ara_collapsible_icons['minus'][1] = '▼';

To:

421
422

$ara_collapsible_icons['plus'][1] = '► ';
$ara_collapsible_icons['minus'][1] = '▼ ';

This is a space:

 

Thanks again! I’d only add that anyone looking to make the same edit should also add the space to the code a few lines above, which governs the display of the icon (your code is for the HTML arrows).

Excellent plugin, but “Expand current month by default” option doesn’t seem to be working! (Here: http://jayewells.com/testsite/)

Is there a quick way to fix this? I’m familiar with PHP but don’t much like messing with other people’s code!

Thanks for the great work!

ps: I’m not sure if it’s on your todo list, but it’d be great if the months could show the post counts, as well!

I see it’s working now on the real site? I didn’t really notice whether the test site contained a post for March (current month when you posted the comment). But I just tested the latest version and saw no problem with or without the effects. I hope you enjoy the plugin.

Post counts for month added to TODO list. I don’t remember why it was not added before.

Hi Ady,

Thanks yes, I was super-tired when working on this & had completely forgotten that it had just turned into March! Silly girl! Thanks again for the great plugin!

No problem, I am glad you enjoyed using the plugin. I was also super tired when I received your comment, hence the delay.

Love your work, great design.

Hi Ady,

I like your plugin!
Is there a possibility to highlight the current month? For example make the month bold?
And an other (not so important) question: Could I remove the year after the month?

Best Regards from Germany, Florian

Heya,

I was just wondering, is there also an update coming with a month post count? I am not a super star with PHP but I think more people then just me would like to have that kind of feature.

I am delighted I finally found this plug-in, cos all others just suck soo much, and this one rocks! Whoehoe!

Thanks in advance.

New release 2.3 is avaialble.

@Florian: added option to make the current month bold and the option to remove or hide the year after month names.

@Matthijs: Post count settings are now separated between year and months

There are still some todo… the ones done above are minor changes and to test in 2.7.1

I did not plan to ignore you, I just realized. Yes, the ability has been removed because it caused so much overhead and ugly output so I am not sticking to a bullet list.

Thx Dude!

But when I use the option “Show current month in bold” all months will be shown in bold.

Regards Florian

hi ady,

thanks for the update. – unfortunately with 2.3 i get these xhtml errors (unclosed list entries) again.

greetz,
berny

I know, I am ashamed of that bug and has updated the plugin to 2.3.1

Thanks Berny. I have updated the plugin to 2.3.1 and tested the output of the default theme using the validator. I think it should be all set now.

Works great, thank you

You’re welcome.

hi ady,

thanks for the quick fix! – 2.3.1 works just fine for me and the validator.

another small thing – which i noticed – but to be honest may barely happen: instead of using your plugin in the sidebar, i implemented the function call in an archive page. thus, i configured the widget to display without a title. until 2.2.x this works just fine, but starting with 2.3 in combination with a language file, the direct call now always creates some kind of debugging output of the .mo file (author, date, language, etc.). my current workaround is to enter a single blank instead of an empty widget title. this keeps suppressing the debug message, but is not quite an elegant solution. if you got time someday, maybe you could have a look.

thanks & greetz,
berny

Love the widget, but one question – why do you think there is a big gap between the year and the list of months on my page? It doesn’t matter that much but it’s a tad annoying. I think it must be a quirk to do with the theme I’m using, but any ideas?
Thanks.

Hi Ady,

Would love to use this, but my blog theme isnt widget able? If you do decide to have it work as a non widget as posted on your todo list please update me!
Thanks!

Thanks for the widget. I had one question though, is there a way to edit the fonts used? I tried a few things with no luck. I am using the titles of posts for now and they appear to be rather larger than I would like.

Thanks Again!

Hey, I just wanted to say that I managed to get the archives looking like I wanted them to! It was the CSS, not the PHP!
Thanks again for the awesome widget!
Emma

Hi, great plug in. I was just wondering how it could be modified to display an archive for a few categories in stead of all posts in one archive. The site I have made, have two cats but the posts should not be mixed together (the titles look a lot the same, but it for different reasons posted). I have seen that there are other plug ins that can show it in different lists, but they are not collapsible and thus would not work for what I need.

hi ady,

sorry to bother you again…

i’m not sure if it’s a wp 2.8 bug or not, but html-entities in the page-titles like & are not converted to &amp; which results in invalid xhtml page-titles.

best,
berny

If I tell it to show the current month in bold, this month (June) is showing up as “6Jun” (abbrev) or “6June” in WP2.3.1. Otherwise the plugin is working reasonably well. Any thoughts as to why?

Also: any way to move the arrow to the left of the year instead of above it? (Theme is Atahualpa 3.3.3).

hi ady,

it again me. – i had a look at your plugin’s source-code and if you change

$result_string .= $lineStart.'ID).'">'.$post->post_title.''.$lineEnd;

$result_string .= $lineStart.'ID).'">'.htmlentities($post->post_title).''.$lineEnd;

greetz,
berny

Love this plug-in, it’s just what I wanted to allow for easy navigation to recent posts from the front page.

On your home page the header dot, expand/contract, link are all on the same line. but on my blog there is a new line generated after each of these, so it looks messy and wastes three times the space.

Any ideas?

I am running WP 2.8.1 and will try 2.8.2 soon. The theme is Atahualpa, if that helps you think about it or not.

Still I am using it as it is far superior than the blind standard archive list, just wish it looked as swish as on your site.

I will also pop the back-link on once it stops misbehaving, it’s not the best advert at the moment.

Has anyone had the issue where its creating an extra line in between the months???

Yes, I’m getting that too.

The left border of the archive widget is extending all the way across to the left side of the page instead of the left side of the sidebar (it’s in a right sidebar).

Forgot to mention, that’s in IE only, not Firefox.

First, I apologize for the delay in responding.

@Berny: Thanks man, you’re always helping me generate valid code. I will try to find time to update.

@Andy: Did you fix anything, it looks fine on your site.

@Sam & @Andy: The newline might be caused by the width of your sidebar, and let’s not call it a newline. Browsers ignore newlines “n”. Browsers only honor html tags. Let’s call it line breaks “<br />”. If you can give me an example please do so.

@Jerrad: That sounds like a CSS issue. Firefox and IE handles CSS differently. The plugin generates code only to consume your own CSS (same as other widgets) so I doubt I can do anything about it. But, if you give me an example (your URL) I might be able to suggest something.

You guys can find my email at the Contact page.

Hi Ady, I made multiple changes to the width of the column with no luck – still had the extra break (full line in IE 1/2 line in Firefix) example http://www.samanthagale.com.au

Sam, as I mentioned above this is due to CSS. It’s padding 5px at the bottom of each <li> file wp-content/themes/lifestyle_10/style.css

#sidebar ul li li {
	background: #FFFFFF url(images/icon.gif) no-repeat top left;
	padding: 0px 0px 5px 20px;
	margin: 0px;
	}

Try changing to:

padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;

… and your padding will be gone. If you have other widgets on your sidebar you would have seen that the gaps are there too…

Hey Ady – thank you soo much. For some reason I thought I had tried this aleady. Works perfectly. Btw: love the widget and thanks for your help once again.

You’re welcome. I am glad you find it useful.

Hi

A very nice widget. Is there a way to just show the year and the count without the months?

This is such a brilliantly executed piece of code – I love the effect – many, many thanks for developing it.

Now all I want is exactly the same thing developing for Pages. Can you do that? Can you?

Not yet. I will consider that for the next release, since WP2.9 has a lot of changes plugin developers need to update anyway. Thanks for your patience.

Glad you like it David. Can you explain more about pages? I don’t get what you mean. Has it been discussed in previous comments?

Thanks Ady

On my site I want to use WordPress as a Content Management System with many layers of nested WordPress Pages. The way you’ve programmed the Archives widget to collapse is so good that I’d love to apply exactly the same effect the the Pages widget, with the same graphics and mode of operation. Is that clear?

I can’t see that it’s been discussed before.

Keep up the great work!

hey Ardee and Ady

I am getting that same error when I use bold for the month. Its january now, so I am seeing 1January. Any chance that this will be resolved soon, or does anyone know a way to fix this in the code? Its one of the most visually useful aspects of the plugin and this is one of the best archiving plugins Ive found! I want to use it on everything!

hi ady,

I love your widget, and hope localize option on/off.

thanks

Hi!

What is the line to embed the plugin the old fashion way?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Wouter

I have japanese pages, but I like to show in english.
It’s old fashion way maybe?

hi Ady
I really like using your widget. I want to upgrade to WP 2.9 but as you have a warning above, not sure I can.
Can you let me know when the widget will be compatible with WordPress 2.9?
thanks

Love this, thank you. I seem to have an extra, empty bullet between the month and the posts… how can I fix this?
Regards!

Works here with WP 2.9.2. Thanks for that great widget!

Works fine with WP 3.0.

I will give it a try. Seems my blog is going to need a collapsible menu soon.

Thanks for testing!

This plugin works from me. Great job!

Hey Ady,

the month count doesn’t seem to be working with WP 3.0.

http://wp.deveu.com

not sure whether this is something fixable, be happy to pay to have you look at it if it’s not too costly.

kind regards,

Dave

The current month shows the number in front of the name of the month.

So for right now it would show:
11November 2010 (post count)

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this?

Joe I am unable to reproduce this. Could you please send me a screenshot for your widget setting? Which WordPress version are you using?

Dave, I am unable to reproduce this with WordPress 3.0.5. I know it has been some time, but if you are still interested please send me details or screenshot for your settings.

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