Displaying year, month and day archives differently

Question

I'd like to display daily archives differently than monthly/yearly archives. How do I check to see if the archive template is being pulled for a daily archive vs. a monthly/yearly archive?

Answer 1

Conditional tags FTW.

• is_month() : Currently viewing a monthly archive
• is_day() : Currently viewing a single day archive
• is_year() : Currently viewing a yearly archive
• is_time() : Currently viewing a time-based archive (hourly, minute, or even seconds)

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So to test for each of these conditions, add something like this to your archive.php (or whatever template is being used for your archive pages):

// Check what posts were returned in order to find what date the archive is for
global $posts; 
$archivedate = strtotime( $posts[0]->post_date);
if (is_day()) {
    echo "Daily archive: ".date('m/d/Y', $archivedate);
} else if (is_month()) {
    echo "Monthly archive: ".date('F Y', $archivedate);
} else if (is_year()) {
    echo "Yearly archive: ".date('Y', $archivedate);
}