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.

721 comments to Clean Archives Reloaded

  1. William says:

    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?

  2. Viper007Bond says:

    William on December 10th, 2008 at 11:03 PM wrote:

    After updating wordpress to 2.6.7,

    2.7.0 you mean? It’s working fine for me: http://www.viper007bond.com/archives/

    Let’s continue this on my forums though where it’s easier to provide support: http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/forums/viewforum.php?id=22

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  6. Hossein says:

    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

  7. Ida says:

    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!

  8. Ida says:

    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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  10. Viper007Bond says:

    Hossein on January 28th, 2009 at 12:30 PM wrote:

    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

    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. :(

  11. David says:

    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?

  12. David says:

    Nevermind – I’ll bet it’s the “out of memory” error.

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  14. Bryan Eggers says:

    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

  15. Bryan Eggers says:

    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.

  16. Bryan Eggers says:

    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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  19. David says:

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

  20. Viper007Bond says:

    David on April 6th, 2009 at 10:00 AM wrote:

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

    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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  23. Very nice! I´d like a small modification so that it´s possible to show a full list of all posts just with the date in front, like in this archive:

    http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/archives

    I will try to accomplish something similar while tinkering with your plugin.

  24. boss says:

    Just found this plugin, its fun and usefull, thanks

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  29. wong? says:

    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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  31. Viper007Bond says:

    wong? on June 11th, 2009 at 4:36 PM wrote:

    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…

    Seems to be working fine for me: http://www.viper007bond.com/archives/

  32. best4future says:

    Nice plug in. Thank you!

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

  33. Viper007Bond says:

    best4future on June 17th, 2009 at 1:27 PM wrote:

    Nice plug in. Thank you!

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

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

  34. best4future says:

    Thank you so much! It is an excellent plug in! I enjoy it a lot!

  35. best4future says:

    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!!

  36. Viper007Bond says:

    best4future on June 17th, 2009 at 8:03 PM wrote:

    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!!

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

  37. abbas says:

    thank you for this great plug in
    I’m interested in translating to Arabic.
    how can i help?

  38. Viper007Bond says:

    abbas on June 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 AM wrote:

    thank you for this great plug in
    I’m interested in translating to Arabic.
    how can i help?

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

    A template file is included with the plugin. Translate that, then e-mail me the completed file. :)

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  40. ramona says:

    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.

  41. Faisal Khan says:

    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.

  42. Viper007Bond says:

    Faisal Khan on June 30th, 2009 at 6:29 AM wrote:

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

    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.

  43. Faisal Khan says:

    Thanks a lot.

    Yes , I see that. Actually it is the WordPress Admin that is doing that … Is there any way that I can call the code in the php through some function and dont have to use the [cleanarchives...] in the Editor ?

    Thanks again

  44. Faisal Khan says:

    Thanks Viper …

    It is fixed … I was just being super stupid.
    You can see the end result here:-

    It came out good;

    http://www.ewp.eu/news/ewp-news

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  47. Susan says:

    Thanks for a great plugin and all the work that goes into creating and maintaining it! Much appreciated.

  48. Katy says:

    – deleted —
    I figured it out. Great plugin.. thanks!!!

  49. Hamad says:

    Fix your archive page bro.

  50. Viper007Bond says:

    Hamad on July 16th, 2009 at 4:29 PM wrote:

    Fix your archive page bro.

    Been having issues with my server crashing. I disabled everything that I didn’t absolutely need as it appeared to be a MySQL issue.

    You can see a working demo on my other site: http://www.finalgear.com/post-archives/

  51. Ramona says:

    I posted this a bit ago. Wondered if you’ve had a chance to take a look.

    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.

  52. Viper007Bond says:

    Ramona on July 16th, 2009 at 9:35 PM wrote:

    I posted this a bit ago. Wondered if you’ve had a chance to take a look.

    You have the plugin installed twice, therefore the Javascript is executing twice (probably expanding them all and then instantly collapsing them all).

  53. Ramona says:

    You have the plugin installed twice, therefore the Javascript is executing twice (probably expanding them all and then instantly collapsing them all).

    I’m not understanding how I can have it installed twice. It’s showing up only once in the plugin admin. I deactivated and reactivated, but got the same result.

  54. Viper007Bond says:

    Ramona on July 19th, 2009 at 12:04 PM wrote:

    [quote post="172"]You have the plugin installed twice, therefore the Javascript is executing twice (probably expanding them all and then instantly collapsing them all).

    I’m not understanding how I can have it installed twice. It’s showing up only once in the plugin admin. I deactivated and reactivated, but got the same result.[/quote]

    Well as you said yourself, the plugin comes bundled with your theme. Perhaps it’s being loaded once from the theme and once from the plugin. Deactivate the plugin. If that doesn’t work, talk to the theme author.

  55. Nici says:

    Hello,

    I put the code ([cleanarchivesreloaded]) on my archives.php page, but it doesn´t work. I only see the code on my page.
    How can I use the plugin on this archiv page?

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  60. Tom says:

    Love this plugin! Would be great to do something like this with tags, too.

  61. chitgoks says:

    the new version doesnt seem to work anymore.
    and even one of my blogs outputs a blank page

  62. Viper007Bond says:

    chitgoks on August 15th, 2009 at 9:03 PM wrote:

    the new version doesnt seem to work anymore.
    and even one of my blogs outputs a blank page

    Works for me: http://www.finalgear.com/post-archives/

    Disable other plugins and check your Apache/PHP error_log.

  63. Ingrid says:

    Hi! I have used your plugin for a while and I realy like it. Suddenly it don´t work out! Not one post! I have deleted a lot of posts, can it matter? I used 3.1.8 but deleted it and tryed with 3.1.2 but it didn´t help me. I can only see the name of the page where I want to have it. Please help me!!!

  64. Viper007Bond says:

    Ingrid on August 21st, 2009 at 8:44 AM wrote:

    Hi! I have used your plugin for a while and I realy like it. Suddenly it don´t work out! Not one post! I have deleted a lot of posts, can it matter? I used 3.1.8 but deleted it and tryed with 3.1.2 but it didn´t help me. I can only see the name of the page where I want to have it. Please help me!!!

    Without a link or more information than “it doesn’t work”, there’s no way for me to determine what is wrong.

  65. Ingrid says:

    Ok! The link to the page is http://blog.stenstugu.com/bloggarkiv/

    And here is the text I put on it. As you see the page is blank. If I take away the code cleanarchivesreloaded the text is ok even the cartotalposts.

    Här har du alla mina [cartotalposts] inlägg. Den 21/5-09 startade jag den här WP-bloggen. De inlägg som är äldre är importerade från mina äldre bloggar på Blogtown, Blogspot, One.com och så förstås min egen dagbok. En del av inläggen från min dagbok finns bara månadsvis ännu, men jag jobbar på det.

    [cleanarchivesreloaded]

    /Ingrid

  66. Viper007Bond says:

    Ingrid on August 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 AM wrote:

    Ok! The link to the page is http://blog.stenstugu.com/bloggarkiv/

    It appears a PHP error is occurring and they’re set to hidden (likely you’re running out of memory as my plugin is memory intensive). Check your server’s error log (it’s usually in the control panel).

  67. Ingrid says:

    I checked the log and it says: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 25165824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 215141 bytes) in /customers/stenstugu.com/stenstugu.com/httpd.www/blog/wp-includes/post-template.php on line 80
    I have sent an email to support at One.com, my webhotel, to see if they can expand the memory capacity. If not, I have to delet the page. /Ingrid

  68. Ingrid says:

    I couldn´t get any help från One.com. I can´t use your great plugin and it makes me very disappointed. Anyway, thank you for your kind answers! /Ingrid

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  70. Jesweb says:

    Love this plugin! I’ve installed it with no errors, but when I try to change any of the options, and hit the “Save Changes” button, I get this error: “Error! Options page not found.”

    Do you have any idea what this means? I’m running the plugin on WPMU, but usually don’t have trouble with the popular WP plugins working.

    Any thoughts on what this error might mean? Thanks in advance.

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  72. Bes says:

    Hi!

    This plugin has worked perfectly until now:

    http://avlshest.no/?page_id=9

    I know this probably has nothing to do with the plugin itself, but I’m wondering how to fix it. I can’t find any PHP.INI file so I don’t think I have the right access – does this mean I have to talk to my host? Will they know what to fix

    Please help. Thank you.

  73. Louis Han says:

    Thanks, I like this plugin so much.

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  76. Fame Caster says:

    I installed the plugin and activated it. The only issue is when I click on the months it goes up and right back down. It doesnt stay stationary so you can browse them.

    Here is the link to my archives page. http://famecaster.com/archives/

    Archives page

    Thanks,

    Fame

  77. Ramona says:

    Fame,
    Exact same thing was happening for me. The plugin came with my theme. I never got a resolution here, so I finally turned off that functionality. Unfortunate. It is cool. Hopefully, we can get a solution.

  78. Viper007Bond says:

    That happens when the plugin is installed twice. The Javascript gets run twice which makes it do the animation twice (as if you clicked twice).

    Disable the plugin or remove it from your theme (one or the other) so that it only runs once and you’ll be good.

  79. Fame Caster says:

    Hey Vapor,

    Thanks for your reply. I am a little bit of a coder myself. I suck at it but I can hack themes and I can be pretty good with photoshop. So basically any 12 year old can kick my ass in coder probably.

    On your plugin ordeal I have tried to see if the plugin was installed twice and it wasn’t at all. Its in the plugins directory and there isn’t any other clean archives reloaded anywhere. I tried to see if there was any conflicting java and I don’t see any.

    I like to hire you for a word press modification on my theme with Google search. Email me here: [removed]

    Thanks

    Fame

  80. Viper007Bond says:

    View the source of your website. My plugin’s Javascript is there twice. Perhaps your theme includes a bundled version of it or something. Disable the plugin or switch themes.

    I also don’t do paid work anymore. Sorry.

  81. Fame Caster says:

    Ramona and Viper I figured it out:

    In the header.php of the theme right before the /head tag. Delete that line above it which is this:

    if (is_singular()) wp_enqueue_script(‘comment-reply’); wp_head();

    http://famecaster.com/archives/

    And it works!

    Thanks,

    Fame.

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    The plugin “open and close, open and close” :s i dont understand see http://www.brtorrents.com.br/arquivos

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