Limit Wordpress archives
Since switched over to a new theme I needed to rearrange the way the sidebar should look. The list of archives was just to long, think 20 months is the default, to be aesthetic correct. So I started to look for a limit setting in de admin interface of Wordpress, but could not find a way to change the limit. I probably looked over it. So browsing through the php scripts I found the file responsible for the way the archives section behaves.
I use Wordpress version 2.5.1 from the Debian lenny repository
Edit the following file:
wordpress/wp-includes# vi general-template.php
And look for the following function:
# cat -n general-template.php
<…>
356 function wp_get_archives($args = ”) {
357 global $wpdb, $wp_locale;
358
359 $defaults = array(
360 ‘type’ => ‘monthly’, ‘limit’ => ‘<strong>10</strong>’,
361 ‘format’ => ‘html’, ‘before’ => ”,
362 ‘after’ => ”, ’show_post_count’ => false
363 );
364
<…>
#
<…>
356 function wp_get_archives($args = ”) {
357 global $wpdb, $wp_locale;
358
359 $defaults = array(
360 ‘type’ => ‘monthly’, ‘limit’ => ‘<strong>10</strong>’,
361 ‘format’ => ‘html’, ‘before’ => ”,
362 ‘after’ => ”, ’show_post_count’ => false
363 );
364
<…>
#
Change the options you whish, I lowered the limit to 10 months.