WordPress Charted Archives Plugin

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Martijn Stegink

His thought process -as he wrote in ‘Now With Navigation and Charted Archives‘- was that someone new to the site could see the graph and very easily get a feel for the frequency of his posting and I liked it a lot. I have seen similar features before, but not linked to the archives nor executed as beautifully as his. This is why I decided to make it a plugin.

I’ve got it live in my sidebar now, but as it may not be there for ever, this is how it looks.
Charted Archives
If you like it just download the plugin. Install the plugin and you can use it in three ways:

  1. As a widget: go to Themes > Widgets to add the widget to your sidebar. Add the number of months to display in the widget properties, it defaults to zeven.
  2. As a php tag in a template: <?php Charted_Archives($number_of_months_to_show) ?>
  3. Or use a shortcode in a page. [chartedarchive months=”12″] (where 12 can be any number of months).
Update: there was an error in the CSS link which is now corrected. The download link above reflects the new version.

Update 2: I added a shortcode for easier use in pages.

About Martijn Stegink

IT guy convinced about the power of mobility and the web - having used it since 1993 with the rise of Mosaic. Fiddling with Mac's when not reading, gardening or herding his small flock of children.
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16 Responses to WordPress Charted Archives Plugin

  1. Greg says:
    July 27, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Is there a way to insert in the page using a tag?

  2. Martijn Stegink says:
    July 27, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Yes, just use < ?php Charted_Archives(number_of_results); ?>

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  10. Solomon says:
    July 28, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    A shortcode for this plugin would be really cool!

  11. Martijn Stegink says:
    July 28, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    Good suggestion, thanks. New version is up now.

  12. Mathias says:
    July 29, 2009 at 9:39 am

    Hi. Nice idea, but unfortunately the plugin does not output anything on my WP 2.8.2 blog. Example: the output from the widget:

    <li id="charted_archives-3" class="widgetcontainer widget_charted_archives">
    <h3 class="widgettitle">Charted Archives</h3>
    <ul id="archive_bar_graph"></ul><br style="clear: both" />
</li>
  13. Martijn Stegink says:
    July 29, 2009 at 11:57 am

    That was a non-standard table prefix issue. Thanks for helping me figure that out Mathias! Corrected version (1.3) is out for download now. Don’t forget to rate it.

  14. Simon says:
    September 14, 2009 at 1:29 am

    Is there a simple way to exclude posts from a particular category?

  15. Tocki says:
    February 4, 2010 at 9:07 am

    man, I just found this plugin and it blows me away! I need to put it on my blog. Thanks a lot for sharing!

  16. michael says:
    February 13, 2010 at 9:01 am

    I was curious how you would define the bars to be a specific percentage in height. How is that value defined? It’s either super short or super long.

    Any feedback would be much appreciated.

    Thanks.

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