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Create collapsible archives by year or month. Features include: link to archive pages, display of individual posts and support for custom post-types.

Demo

I use this plugin in my blog at http://blog.robfelty.com

\n","installation":"

WIDGET INSTALLATION

The easiest way to use this plugin is as a widget.

After you have installed the Collapsing Archives plugin, then simply go the Appearance > Widgets section in wp-admin and add the Collapsing Archives Widget to whatever sidebar or widget section you like, and then configure to your heart’s content.

MANUAL INSTALLATION

It is also possible to use the plugin on any page you like with a little bit of PHP code. Simply change the following here appropriate (most likely sidebar.php):

Change From:

<ul>\n     <?php wp_get_archives(); ?>\n</ul>\n

To something of the following:

    <?php\n     if( function_exists('collapsArch') ) {\n      collapsArch();\n     } else {\n      echo \"<ul>\\n\";\n      wp_get_archives();\n      echo \"</ul>\\n\";\n     }\n    ?>\n

OPTIONS AND CONFIGURATIONS

$defaults=array(\n  'noTitle' => '',\n  'inExcludeCat' => 'exclude',\n  'inExcludeCats' => '',\n  'inExcludeYear' => 'exclude',\n  'inExcludeYears' => '',\n  'sort' => 'DESC',\n  'showPages' => false, \n  'linkToArch' => true,\n  'showYearCount' => true,\n  'expandCurrentYear' => true,\n  'expandMonths' => true,\n  'expandYears' => true,\n  'expandCurrentMonth' => true,\n  'showMonthCount' => true,\n  'showPostTitle' => true,\n  'expand' => '0',\n  'showPostDate' => false,\n  'postDateFormat' => 'm/d',\n  'postDateAppenc' => 'after',\n  'accordion' => 0,\n  'postTitleLength' => '',\n  'post_type' => 'post',\n  'debug' => '0',\n  );\n

noTitle\n
- If your posts don’t have title, specify a string to show in place of the
  \ntitle
\n
inExcludeCat\n
- Whether to include or exclude certain categories\n
  - ‘exclude’ (default)
  - ‘include’
  \n
\n
inExcludeCats\n
- The categories which should be included or excluded
\n
inExcludeYear\n
- Whether to include or exclude certain years\n
  - ‘exclude’ (default)
  - ‘include’
  \n
\n
inExcludeYears\n
- The years which should be included or excluded
\n
showPages\n
- Whether or not to include pages as well as posts. Default if false
\n
showYearCount\n
- When true, the number of posts in the year will be shown in parentheses
\n
showMonthCount\n
- When true, the number of posts in the month will be shown in parentheses
\n
linkToArch\n
- 1 (true), clicking on a the month or year will link to the archive (default)
- 0 (false), clicking on a month or year expands and collapses
\n
sort\n
- Whether posts should be sorted in chronological or reverse
  \nchronological order. Possible values:
  \n
  - ‘DESC’ reverse chronological order (default)
  - ‘ASC’ chronological order
  \n
\n
expand\n
- The symbols to be used to mark expanding and collapsing. Possible values:\n
  - ‘0’ Triangles (default)
  - ‘1’ + –
  - ‘2’ [+] [-]
  - ‘3’ images (you can upload your own if you wish)
  - ‘4’ custom symbols
  \n
\n
customExpand\n
- If you have selected ‘4’ for the expand option, this character will be
  \nused to mark expandable link categories
\n
\n
customCollapse
\n
- If you have selected ‘4’ for the expand option, this character will be
  \nused to mark collapsible link categories
\n
\n
expandYears
\n
- 1 (true): Years collapse and expand to show months (default)
- 0 (false): Only links to yearly archives are shown
\n
expandMonths\n
- 1 (true): Months collapse and expand to show posts (default)
- 0 (false): Only links to yearly and monthly archives are shown
\n
expandCurrentMonth\n
- When true, the current month will be expanded by default
\n
expandCurrentYear\n
- When true, the current year will be expanded by default
\n
showPostTitle\n
- 1 (true): The title of each post is shown (default)
\n
showPostDate\n
- 1 (true): Show the date of each post
\n
postDateFormat\n
- The format in which the date should be shown (default: ‘m/d’)
\n
postDateAppend\n
- after: The post date comes after the title (default)
- before: The post date comes before the title
\n
postTitleLength\n
- Truncate post titles to this number of characters (default: 0 = don’t
  \ntruncate)
\n
post_type\n
- post (default)
- page
- all (includes regular post types plus any custom post types – excludes
  \npages, revisions, wp_nav_items, and attachments)
- custom post type that you have registered (e.g. recipe)
\n
accordion\n
- When set to true, expanding one year will collapse all other years.
  \nExpanding one month will collapse all other months in that year
\n
number\n
- If using manually with more than one instance on a page, you can give
  \nunique ids to each instance with this option. For example, if you had
  \none instance with number 1 and another with number 2, the ul for March
  \n2004 for number 1 would have an id of ‘collapsArch-2004-3:1’, while the
  \nid for number 2 would be ‘collapsArch-2004-3:2’
\n
debug\n
- When set to true, extra debugging information will be displayed in the
  \nunderlying code of your page (but not visible from the browser). Use
  \nthis option if you are having problems
\n

Examples

collapsArch('accordion=1&sort=ASC&expand=3&inExcludeCat=exclude&inExcludeCats=general,uncategorized')\n

This will produce a list with:
\n* accordion style expanding and collapsing
\n* shown in chronological order
\n* using images to mark collapsing and expanding
\n* exclude posts from the categories general and uncategorized

collapsArch('post_type=recipe')\n

This will produce a list with:
\n* only posts of type ‘recipe’
\n* shown in chronological order
\n* using images to mark collapsing and expanding
\n* exclude posts from the categories general and uncategorized

CAVEAT

This plugin relies on Javascript, but does degrade
\ngracefully if it is not present/enabled to show all of the
\narchive links as usual.

\n","faq":"\n

\nHow do I change the style of the collapsing archives lists?\n\n

The collapsing archives plugin uses several ids and classes which can be
\nstyled with CSS. These can be changed from the settings page. You may have to
\nrename some of the id statements. For example, if your sidebar is called
\n“myawesomesidebar”, you would rewrite the line

\nmyawesomesidebar li.collapsArch {list-style-type:none}\n\n

If you are using the plugin manually (i.e. inserting code into your theme),
\nyou may want to replace #sidebar with #collapsArchList

\nThere seems to be a newline between the collapsing/expanding symbol and the\n\n

category name. How do I fix this? =

If your theme has some css that says something like

\nsidebar li a {display:block}\n\n

that is the problem.
\nYou probably want to add a float:left to the .sym class

\n\n","changelog":"

3.0.6 (2024.08.05)

Sanitizing input for block.
Verified works with WP 6.6
Updated Readme a bit

3.0.5 (2023.12.07)

accidentally messed up tagging version 3.0.4. Calling it 3.0.5 now

3.0.4 (2023.12.01)

Got rid of deprecated __experimentalGroup
Tested with WP 6.4.1

3.0.3 (2023.09.11)

Fixed PHP warning about undefined key when changing style

3.0.2 (2023.06.04)

Calling it stable version
Tested with WP 6.2.2
Known issue – does not work with Jetpack widget visibility settings

3.0.1 (2023.04.01)

Fixed linkToArch option
Fixed taxonomy type option
Added SameSite attribute to cookies
A bit of code cleanup

3.0.0 (2023.03.28)

Converted to Gutenberg block to be usable by full-site editing themes
Compatible with WP 6.2
Got rid of dependency on jQuery (no more animations)

2.1.4 (2023.01.12)

Fixed a different warning about enqueuing scripts

2.1.3 (2022.03.10)

Fixed a deprecation warning about enqueuing scripts

2.1.2 (2022.03.10)

Fixed an issue with the full-site editor

2.1.1 (2022.03.10)

Compatible with WP 5.9.1
Fixed some deprecated warnings

2.1 (2021.06.18)

Compatible with WP 5.7
Incorporated a number of code improvements from my other collapsing plugins
Tested on WP 5.7.2
Updated documentation a bit
Added some screenshots and icons

2.0.5 (2017.08.17)

Compatible with WP 4.8
Cleaned up code some to reduce warnings

2.0.4 (2017.01.02)

Compatible with WP 4.7
Fixed bug with jquery compatibility
Removed deprecated mysql debugging info
Works with PHP 7

2.0.3 (2015.08.12)

Compatible with WP 4.3

2.0.2 (2014.09.24)

Fixed bug when expanding years but not showing month links, where the oldest posts were not getting displayed

2.0.1 (2014.09.05)

Compatible with WP 4.0

2.0 (2012.04.09)

now using all jquery for javascript stuff
added accordion option
added option to not use cookies
Fixed display issues with IE
Easier style handling
Added support for custom post types

Older versions

See changelog.txt

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$\"Collapsing$
Collapsing archives with default theme
$\"widget$
widget options

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