67 thoughts on “WordPress Category Archive Widget Plugin”

1. It uses the date_i18n() function, so if you have wp_locale set correctly, it should show the month names in Spanish. Otherwise you will need to update the code.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/date_i18n

2. I need to display a category archive for various distinct categories. However, the widget is hardcoded to show posts from one category only. Is there a way to use the plugin in the template code via do_action()? Or is the only way really to add a separate sidebar for each category? My client might be adding or removing categories in the future, so this would always require some manual labour. 😛

3. Hi,

   Is there a way to define what widgets/sidebar appear in the generated archive pages? I have many different sidebar menus and widgets and would like different ones to appear depending on the category archive that is selected.

   I have two different categories I am using this plugin in for and I would like different sidebars to appear within the two different category archive pages.

4. Hello,

   Thanks for this plugin, it saved me as I needed this function on a customer web site.
   I did just a slight modification I would like to submit to you, I needed to get archives form the current category, I did it by adding this :
   line 91 : [code]$category_id = ($category_id == (int)0) ? get_query_var(‘cat’) : $category_id;[/code]

   and this :
   line 256 : [code]echo ‘0 : ‘.__(‘Current category’).”;[/code]

   Hope you find this useful, feel free to add it in a future release.

   Cheers,
   jeFFF

5. I need pass with URL of month the language ?lang=es
   How I’ll implement ? I using qtraslate.

6. Hi,

   Thanks for this great Plugin

   can i ask – is it possible to adjust the plugin so I can enter the ID for more than 1 CATEGORY in the slect category box?

   At present it looks like I can only select 1 Category Archive?

   thanks

   Phil

7. Hi, i just saw a bug. I got the widget in my sidebar, working well as long as i don’t publish posts in the past with the “Schedule” option. There the posts do appear in my page, but not in the widget’s archives list. Any clue?

8. Edit: just did a test with the regular archives widget and the older dates do appear fine as i publish in the past. So it’s really an issue with the plugin. Thanks in advance.

9. Is it possible to get the PHP code for manual placement in templates, as opposed to using the widget? Thanks.

10. P.S. I was hoping that I could use a subset of the URL you mention —

    /%category%/%year%/%monthnum%/%post_id%/

    — and just create URLs to /%category%/%year%/%monthnum%/

    However, this doesn’t work. Should it?

11. I think you need either the %post_id% or the %postname% somewhere in the permalink.

12. Hi Hugh,

    I am trying your plugin on a 3.3.1 WP installation. I changes my permalinks to a custom stucture to include the category:
    /%postname%/%category%/%year%/%monthnum%/
    The custom archive comes up in the sidebar but when I click on a month it says Page Not Found. Any idea as to what I am doing wrong?

    This is the page I have it activated on:
    http://xbm-wptestsite.com/hearts1/category/h-and-w-blog/

    Thanks.

13. This is a great widget. It’s working perfectly on my site. Is there anyway to apply a current menu item to the output?

    right now I have my years listed, 2009, 2008…..

    when you click on 2008, I’d love to either have a title that says 2008 or have a class on the 2008 link so I can change it’s color. Any way to do this?

14. You could use JavaScript. Here is some code that uses JQuery to add the class “highlighted” to the link in the category archive whose href matches the current page’s href.
    
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var href = window.location.href;
$(".widget_wp-category-archive a[href='" + href + "']").addClass("highlighted");
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
.highlighted {
color: red;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 24px;
}
</style>


15. Hi Hugh, great plugin. Unfortunately I’m having a problem with the category years repeating themselves. My years list looks like this:

    2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2011 2010 2009 2008

    There are no duplicate posts. Any idea why this is or how it could be fixed? I’m using WordPress 3.4.2.

    Thanks.

16. Is there a way of limiting the amount of archives it displays ie last 6months, last 12 months? Any help would be much apreciated

17. Hi,
    I am finding a wordpress plugin which helps me to create a category list in widget but only categories which are chosen by me show. Please introduce some wp plugins to me.
    Thanks so much !