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My archive.php template is formatted perfectly to list out posts from a certain month and year. However, I only want this template to show from a specific category. I can query for the specific category but then the month/year filter no longer works. How can I display posts on the archive.php template from one category?

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add_action( 'parse_query', 'wpse_60354_archive_category' );
function wpse_60354_archive_category( $wp_query )
{
    if ( $wp_query->is_archive() )
        $wp_query->set( 'cat', ID_OF_CATEGORY );
}

Just replace ID_OF_CATEGORY with the ID of your category, obviously ;)

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I was working with this and can't seem to get it to work. Where exactly would this code be dropped in? – Robbie Aug 1 '12 at 13:05
functions.php - it's not tested, so if you still get problems, let us know what's going on & we can tweak it! – TheDeadMedic Aug 1 '12 at 13:07
Cool. I did try it out and it had no impact on the page. Would this go before or after the loop? I tried both. – Robbie Aug 1 '12 at 14:08
The code I posted needs to go in functions.php - it has to run before the template is loaded! – TheDeadMedic Aug 1 '12 at 14:14
Ahh, I put that in my functions.php template and removed it from archive.php. I replaced the ID of category which is '3' but it is not sorting my archives page by that category. – Robbie Aug 1 '12 at 14:58
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