Order posts by month - in custom taxonomy template

Question

I'm trying to show all posts posted under the month, so

2012

December

post 1
post 2

November

post 1
post 2

The posts are to appear under my custom taxonomy template, so taxonomy-pubyear.php and I'm able to retrive all the posts for that term using the basic loop. If I add get_the_year('F') in the loop then the same month will be displayed repeatedly but I need it displayed once and have all the corresponding posts show up under it, any help with this would be appreciated.

Note: If I have post published under the same day, month and year then the above get_the_year('F') will show the month and display those posts below it, i want that functionality but without having to use the same published date.

Answer 1

Save the current month in a variable and check it for each post, only output it when it changes:

$current_month = '';

while( have_posts() ):
    the_post();

    $this_month = get_the_time( 'F' );

    if( $this_month != $current_month ){
        $current_month = $this_month;
        echo $current_month;
    }

    the_title();

endwhile;