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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Creating an archive page


More and more blogs feature an archive page where they display all of their posts. There are two good reasons to do it—the first is SEO and second is your visitors. With an archive page, any search engine crawler is able to easily index all your posts. When I find a blog of my choice, I'm used to browsing through their archive page to get a quick view of what might interest me.

In this recipe, you shall learn how to create an useful archive page for your WordPress theme, by using the page template technique.

Getting ready

As I just said, we shall be using a page template to create an archive page, for which you have to understand the page template concept—explained in the previous recipe.

I'm using the WordPress default theme in the following example, so you might have to adapt the HTML markup a bit to make it fit your own theme.

How to do it...

  1. Create a file named archive-custom.php on your WordPress theme directory.

  2. Enter the following code in that file:

    <?php
    /*
    Template...