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I have two categories on a site - news which contains news posts and blog - which contains blog posts. Each page has a wp_get_archives in the sidebar. I'd like to limit the archive listing by category but after looking at the codex this does not seem possible. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_archives

<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=12'); ?>

That code lists the archives for all the posts, but I want to list archives for just that category. Am I using the wrong function? Or is this not possible?

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Basically this is possible, but somewhat messy. This function relies on direct SQL query to database, which you can change via getarchives_where and getarchives_join filters.

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  • but just for one category... what about if I want to separate the archive in three completely archives. One for blog, one for news and one for exhibitions. I have been able to take part of the URL so I fixed the next label. The problem is that the links of the archive widget always take me to the general archive with links like mysite.com/2012/12 instead of mysite.com/news/2012/12
    – toto_tico
    Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 4:47
  • @toto_tico please ask new question about your issue :)
    – Rarst
    Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 9:33
  • I did here. I finally found an answer that is sort of working. At least, I know I can tweak what is missing.
    – toto_tico
    Commented Jun 26, 2013 at 10:03
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I just installed this plugin and it seems to work fine.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-category-archive/installation/

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I use this code on my site to pull from a specific category (this is in the sidebar - shows just my 'blog' posts and not my 'portfolio' posts):

<ul>
<?php
global $post;
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=10&category=3&order=DESC');
foreach($myposts as $post) :
?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
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  • You could expand this and make it show only the posts for the category you're currently on by getting the category slug or ID from the post and passing into a variable. Then use the variable in your query for posts in the sidebar. Look at the $post global for taxonomy stuff or use get_term_by() to pull the whole term object then grab the slug or ID out of it with something like $var = $taxObject->slug; I'd put it in a counter so it only runs on the first post on the page.
    – curtismchale
    Commented Feb 7, 2011 at 15:35
  • Hmmm I'm not trying to display posts, I'm trying to display monthly archives like this nikibrown.com/uploads/a0fba9b8d23d24fdfcf76fb5d9eaaab7.png
    – nikibrown
    Commented Feb 7, 2011 at 17:11
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i am not sure if this workaround will do : if instead of the archive you use RSS and specify for the RSS the number of post titles to be shown.

it is easy to get the RSS of the category - easy to specify nbre of posts.

no ? would it work ?

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