Page Archive

Archives for pages is a way to store and access pages by their publication period (usually month and year). It displays a list of available months and leads a visitor to pages published during that month.

#1. Features

• Select categories where to grab pages.
• Use full category permissions, options and custom template for archives if necessary.
• SE-friendly parameters.
• Can display months menu on index, page and page list.
• Displays items count.
• Cache option.

#2. Installation

1. Download the plugin and extract "pagearchive" to your plugins directory.
2. Go to Administration / Extensions / Page Archive and install the plugin.
3. Go to Administration / Structure / Pages and create a "fake" category for page archives.
4. Go to Administration / Extensions / Page Archive / Configuration and put your category code there. By default it is "archives".
5. Put {PHP|pagearchive} tag to your index.tpl or any other tpl where you want this widget to appear.

#3. Advanced usage

• To customize archives category title, description, default sorting order and template name, just edit these properties of the "fake" category you created.
• By default you can customize archives category output in "page.your_fake_category_name.tpl".
• To customize the markup of the months menu, copy "plugins/pagearchive/tpl/pagearchive.tpl" to your theme's "plugins" folder and edit it.
• A rule for URLEditor custom preset looks like this:

page	c=archives&year=*&month=*	{cot_url_catpath()}/{$year}/{$month}

(where archives is your fake category name)