Clean Archives Reloaded

What Exactly Does This Plugin Do?

It creates a pretty list of all of the posts that you’ve made to your blog. To see an example, check out my archives page. Note that the image located there that shows the post times of recent posts is generated by a seperate plugin.

Download:

Support / Feature Request Forum:

http://wordpress.org/tags/clean-archives-reloaded

Credits / History:

This plugin is based on a concept (it no longer shares any common code) by Sebastian Schmieg for the archive page of his “Blix” theme. His code was later converted to a plugin by Shawn Grimes.

The drawback of both of those versions though was the sheer number of queries required (around 1 per month + 2 per post — it added up quick). So, I decided to make my own version which cached the output so that it was only regenerated when needed and otherwise just pulled with 1 query from the database. I was also given the idea by Chris O’Rourke to use Javascript to make the months collapsible as many people’s archives pages were getting rather long.

All of that was then replaced by the current version which uses WordPress functions and internal WordPress caching techniques to make only one query per page period.

780 thoughts on “Clean Archives Reloaded”

  1. After updating wordpress to 2.6.7, Clean Archives seems to cause some problems. When using the [cleanarchivesreloaded] command, it causes most of the page not render–ie., sidebars, comment fields, etc. However, the post count still works.

    Any idea what’s going on?

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  9. Hi,
    I tested this plugin locally on my computer.
    It was looking good but there was no javascript-functionality. (Yes, I checked the settings) I also tried to deactivate all my other plugins. But no result.
    In the end I copied and pasted all the javascript manually into my page. Ok, that works. But it’s not how it should be.
    If you have any idea of what’s going on here I would be very very happy!
    Please help!

  10. Hi again,
    I would just like to say that the problem I was writing about in my comment above is solved. The theme I used was pretty old and wp_head(); was missing in the header. It works like a charm now!

    Thanks for a great plugin! I really appreciate your hard work!

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  12. [quote comment=”227083″]Dear friend
    I have installed this plugin recently. created the page put the code but when i browse the archive page i see one blank page http://www.kazeroun.org/archives
    would you please help me.
    regards[/quote]

    Check your server’s error_log. Although likely the problem is the common “out of memory” error due to a low memory limit and a lot of posts. 🙁

  14. This plugin looked exactly like what my wife was looking for (except that she would like to be able to collapse the years as well) but for some reason I can’t get it working. When I put the code [cleanarchivesreloaded] on a page the result is a blank page. Also, is it possible to load the archives in a sidebar?

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  17. Clean Archives has been working fine for months now suddenly that page won’t display. I get this error message:

    Webpage error details

    User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; Media Center PC 3.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
    Timestamp: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:05:39 UTC

    Message: ‘document.getElementById(…)’ is null or not an object
    Line: 128
    Char: 2
    Code: 0
    URI: http://www.vegasnews.com/archives

  18. Regarding my previous post, it turns out that there the problem is being caused by another Plugin called “Where Did They Go From Here”. When I disabled that one yours started working fine again.

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  20. I can’t get this plugin to work consistently. It was working fine for most of the day then it stopped. I have no idea why but it seems to be incompatible with a lot of other plugins.

    Is there a limitation to the number of posts that it can display per month?

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  23. Can’t seem to get the bullets to go away, even after getting rid of them in the stylesheet. Any ideas?

  24. [quote comment=”227408″]Can’t seem to get the bullets to go away, even after getting rid of them in the stylesheet. Any ideas?[/quote]

    My plugin does no CSS of it’s own, so it’s your theme or whatever. Make sure your browser isn’t caching it.

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  36. hi there,

    this plugin doesn’t work well under WP v2.8

    thanks for checking the problem and release the new version

    waiting and big thanks…

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  40. [quote comment=”227877″]Nice plug in. Thank you!

    Just one question: can I show all the posts as a default withou clicking “expand all”?[/quote]

    If you disable the Javascript features on the settings page, that should do it.

  42. One very small question: is it possible to change the display style (font, size)of the list? for example, I want the month-year to be bold, how to make that happen? Thank you!!

  43. [quote comment=”227883″]One very small question: is it possible to change the display style (font, size)of the list? for example, I want the month-year to be bold, how to make that happen? Thank you!![/quote]

    It’s just a standard nested unordered list, with CSS classes to make selecting easier. Normal CSS will easily style it.

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  48. I like your plugin. It came included with The Stars Theme. When you go to the archives page everything is expanded with a link to EXPAND ALL displaying at top. If you click that everything collapses. But then if you click the month it just expands and collapses automatically. It won’t stay expanded. The example is here:
    http://michekboutique.com/archives/
    Thanks for all help.

  49. Hi ..

    I installed the plugin but there is this annoying wrap of PRE and CODE around the generated HTML of CAR.

    I want to change the CSS, but due to these generated tags, the archives totally alienated from my template…

    IS there a way I can change it ?
    Many Thanks.

  50. [quote comment=”227949″]I installed the plugin but there is this annoying wrap of PRE and CODE around the generated HTML of CAR.[/quote]

    That’s not my plugin’s fault. You likely have those tags in your post contents by accident. Check the HTML view. Another plugin could also possibly be at fault.

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