[How-To] Create Archives Page Automatically in Wordpress

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So I've been trying to find a way to create an archives page that lists all articles I've written on one page with the links. Before I was doing this manually, but I've been looking for a way to automate this. Well, I finally found it! Here is how you do this on Linux:

Go into your site's root folder and navigate to /wp-content/themes/your_theme_here. For me, it's

cd /var/www/thanksaj.com/wp-content/themes/yoko

Next, create a copy of page.php and name it something you can remember. I did this:

cp page.php all_pages_template.php
vi all_pages_template.php

Now that you're in vi, I did the following:

My original page.php file looked like this:

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Yoko
 */

get_header(); ?>

<div id="wrap">
<div id="main">

		<div id="content">

								<?php the_post(); ?>

								<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page' ); ?>

								<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

		</div><!-- end content -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I removed the first and second lines of php of the DIV content. After that, I inserted my own PHP, taken from here. My new php file looks like this:

<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Yoko
 */

get_header(); ?>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="main">

		<div id="content">
								<?php
								/*
								Template Name: All Posts
								*/
								?>
								<?php
								$debut = 0; //The first article to be displayed
								?>
								<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
								<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
								<ul>
								<?php
								$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=-1&offset=$debut');
								foreach($myposts as $post) :
								?>
								<li><?php the_time('D, M jS, Y') ?>: <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
								<?php endforeach; ?>
								</ul>
								<?php endwhile; ?>

								<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

		</div><!-- end content -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

You can make the "the_time" format anything you want. Follow the formatting found here.

You can see the final results and what they look like here: http://www.thanksaj.com/archives/

Personally, I like it, and now all my links are aggregated in one spot. Hope this helps someone else!

Thanks,
A.J.