Question

I want to create an archive page template for WordPress that will look like this:

August 2009

• Post 4
• Post 3
• Post 2
• Post 1

July 2009

• Post 2
• Post 1

So, basically, I want all the posts from the blog, ordered descending by date and grouped by month.
Can someone provide me the PHP code for this?

Thanks!

PS: WordPress version is 2.8.2

Answer 1

This is a function I created a while back. It basically does what you want to do, but it’s not a template. Maybe you can adapt it.

<?php
/**
 * Displays a condensed list of the posts grouped by month/year. 
 *
 * @param $order The order of the posts.  Either 'DESC' or 'ASC', case sensitive.
 * @param $date_prefix Whether to prefix the posts with the month/date.
 * @param $display Whether to display the results or return it as a String. 
 */

function condensed_post_list($order='DESC', $date_prefix=true, $display=true){
    global $wpdb;

    if( !in_array($order, array('DESC','ASC' ) ) ) $order = 'DESC';
    $query = "SELECT ID, post_title, post_date FROM $wpdb->posts ".
             "WHERE post_type='post' AND post_status = 'publish' ".
             "ORDER BY post_date $order";
    $results = $wpdb->get_results( $query );

    ob_start();
    $current_month = '';
    foreach( $results as $result ) {
        if( $current_month != mysql2date('F Y', $result->post_date)) {
            if( $current_month ) echo '</ul>';

            $current_month = mysql2date('F Y', $result->post_date );
            echo '<h2>'.$current_month.'</h2>';
            echo '<ul>';
        }
        echo '<li>';
        echo ($date_prefix ? mysql2date('M j: ', $result->post_date) : '');
        echo '<a href="'.get_permalink($result->ID).'">';
        echo $result->post_title.'</a></li>';
    }
    if( $current_month ) echo '</ul>';

    if( $display ) {
        ob_end_flush();
    } else {
        return ob_get_clean();
    }
}
?>