Listing posts under a category by date

Question

I'm trying to find anything out there that will list posts under a specific category by date. Here's my example:

Photography (being the category name)

2018

• Post title shows here
• Post title shows here
• Post title shows here

2017

• Post title shows here
• post title shows here
• Post title shows here

I know that this is probably pretty basic wordpress, but all I can really find out there is for all categories, not just one specific one.

Answer 1

Even though it is not the most conventional way of doing, I would proceed like this:

Edit : precision I create a new file category.php which is the template for categories, and put this piece of code inside.

$args = array(  'post_type'=>'post',
    'posts_per_page'=> -1,
    'post_status'=>'publish',
    'orderby'=>'post_date',
    'order'=>'DESC'
    );

$query = new WP_Query($args);

if($query->have_posts())
{
    $years = array();
    $postList = '';
    foreach ($query->posts as $post) {

        //if we haven't proceed the year yet
        // we display it
        if(!in_array($year = get_the_date('Y',$post->ID),$years))
        {
            $postList.=sprintf('<h2>%s</h2>',$year);
            $years[] = $year;
        }

        $postList.=sprintf('<h3><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%2$s</a></h3>',get_permalink($post->ID),$post->post_title);

    }

    echo $postList;

}else{

    _e('No posts sorry','your-text-domain');

}

Answer 2

Thanks for your help, Friss!

I added category_name to the query so I could draw down the photography category:

<?php $args = array( 'post_type' =>'post', 'posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'orderby' => 'post_date', 'order' => 'DESC', 'category_name' => 'photography' ); $photography_archive = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>