Expanding Archives

The plugin does not come with a settings panel so you have to do this with your own custom CSS. Here are a few examples: Change the year background colour: .expanding-archives-title { background: #000000; } Change the year font colour: .expanding-archives-title a { color: #ffffff; }

By default, the widget includes posts in all categories. You can add the following code to a custom plugin or a child theme's functions.php file to limit the results to posts in a specific category: `add_filter('expanding_archives_get_posts', function(array $args) { $args['cat'] = 2; // Replace with ID of your category. return $args; }); add_filter('expanding_archives_query', function(string $query) { $category = get_category(2); // Replace with ID of your category. if (! $category instanceof \WP_Term) { return $query; } global $wpdb; return " SELECT DISTINCT MONTH(post_date) AS month, YEAR(post_date) AS year, COUNT(id) as post_count FROM {$wpdb->posts} INNER JOIN {$wpdb->term_relationships} ON ({$wpdb->posts}.ID = {$wpdb->term_relationships}.object_id AND {$wpdb->term_relationships}.term_taxonomy_id = 2) WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_date <= now() AND post_type = 'post' GROUP BY month, year ORDER BY post_date DESC "; });Be sure to set the ID of your category in both of the designated places (the examples use ID2`). Note that the results may not update instantly, as the query to retrieve the date periods is cached for one day. To force the query to re-run, delete this transient: expanding_archives_months

By default, the widget will show a list of every year you've published posts. If you have a lot of posts, you may wish to only show results from the last few years. This can be done with the following code snippet: add_filter('expanding-archives/earliest-date', fn() => '-4 years'); You can change -4 years to any value supported by the PHP DateTime constructor. This can be a relative value (as shown above), or a specific date like: add_filter('expanding-archives/earliest-date', fn() => '2023-01-01'); Note that the results may not update instantly, as the query to retrieve the date periods is cached for one day. To force the query to re-run, delete this transient: expanding_archives_months