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What's best way to create a menu of archives links?
On the bottom of his home page, http://dashes.com/anil/, Anil Dash has a menu of his archives. I also have 11 years of blogging, and I’d like to create a similar menu of my year/month archives.
I’ve started to work with the upm_date_archive plugin, but I’m not sure that will allow such a table.
Suggestions?
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#2 2012-10-12 21:38:59
- els
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Re: What's best way to create a menu of archives links?
The upm_date_menu tag output is a definition list, like this:
<dl>
<dt>2011</dt>
<dd>Jan</dd>
<dd>Feb</dd>
<dd>Mar</dd>
<dd>Apr</dd>
<dd>May</dd>
<dd>Jun</dd>
<dd>Jul</dd>
<dd>Aug</dd>
<dd>Sep</dd>
<dd>Oct</dd>
<dd>Nov</dd>
<dd>Dec</dd>
<dt>2012</dt>
<dd>Jan</dd>
<dd>Feb</dd>
<dd>Mar</dd>
<dd>Apr</dd>
<dd>May</dd>
<dd>Jun</dd>
<dd>Jul</dd>
<dd>Aug</dd>
<dd>Sep</dd>
<dd>Oct</dd>
<dd>Nov</dd>
<dd>Dec</dd></dl>So I think it wouldn’t be too hard to style it like a “table” like this:
| 2011 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2012 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
My knowledge of CSS is not enough though to know if there is a way to make these ‘rows’ display as ‘columns’.
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#4 2012-10-13 15:20:50
- els
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Re: What's best way to create a menu of archives links?
etc wrote:
Otherwise, you could transform the DOM tree with
etc_query, see here.
Wow, great! I hadn’t realised etc_query would make it that simple.
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Re: What's best way to create a menu of archives links?
Thanks, Els! I guess the etc_query help needs some update.
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