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Archiving Content with WordPress

When you create a post on your WordPress site, you can file that post under a category that you specify. This feature makes for a very nifty archiving system in which you and your readers can find articles/posts that you’ve placed within a specific category. Articles that you post are also sorted and organized by date (day/month/year) to make it easy to locate articles that you’ve posted at a certain time. The archives page on my Web site (see it at http://ewebscapes.com/sitemap) contains a chronological archive section, where you find a list of months followed by the content I published in that particular month and year. Clicking the date on that page drops down a listing of articles from that month, which are linked to the individual articles, as shown in Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1: An archive listing of posts by month/year on my Web site.

Creating archives with the Clean Archives Reloaded plugin

The archive listing on my Site Map page (shown in Figure 4-1) is created easily through the use of the Clean Archives Reloaded WordPress plugin, which can be found on the WordPress Plugin Directory page at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clean-archives-reloaded. This plugin is easy to install, and after it’s installed, all you need to do is create a page and add this short code to the page content: [cleanarchivesreloaded]. That code automatically builds ...