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Problem: I would like to set up some links to my monthly archives. The post date should be displayed as the text link. If the User clicks the date, it should redirect them to a monthly archive for the corresponding month and year of the post date.
Solution: Use custom HTML and shortcodes to create a link tag in the following format:
<a href="[wpv-bloginfo show='url']/[wpv-post-date format='Y']/[wpv-post-date format='m']/?cat=141">{!{wpv-post-date}!}</a>
Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views/views-shortcodes/
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Last updated by Christian Cox 3 years, 7 months ago.
Assisted by: Christian Cox.
Tell us what you are trying to do?
I have set up a custom monthly archive page in which I would like to filter posts by month based on the publish date of a post from a loop view. In my views field I have the published date and I would like that to link through to my archive page in which I have set up a view for the Monthly Archive (see attached screenshot). However, I can't figure out which query to put in to return the correct month based on the published date of the post. So for instance, if a post is published on August 30, 2020, and someone clicks on that it would take them to the archive page, which would show for all posts in August. If a post is published on September 1, 2020, it would take them to an archive for all the posts for September. After much trial and error, I have not been able to achieve this as I'm not clear on what parameters would produce this result.
Is there any documentation that you are following?
This one in particular: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views/filtering-views-query-by-date/, but I have also searched the forms and have not been able to find exactly what I'm looking for.
I also tried setting up a link as instructed in this exmaple, but got "Page not found" https://toolset.com/forums/topic/use-toolset-to-create-a-list-of-links-for-year-and-month-archive-pages-and-count/
Is there a similar example that we can see?
What is the link to your site?
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Hello, Toolset offers several front-end filtering options for custom fields, but post publish date is not easily supported. You have two basic options:
1. Create a custom date field and allow front-end filtering by that custom date field. This may require some custom code to copy the post publish date into the custom date field in Unix timestamp format.
2. Add a Query Filter for post date configured to support URL parameters for Year and Month. See the attached screenshot for an example of this configuration. Then insert two custom filter controls in the View using Views shortcodes, one for the Year and another for the Month. For example:
[wpv-control url_param="wpv-year" type="select" values=",2020,2019, 2018" display_values="All,2020,2019,2018"] [wpv-control url_param="wpv-month" type="select" values=",1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12" display_values="All,January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,December"]
There are some limitations to the second approach. For example, some data-specific features like "Only show available options for each input" may not work as expected. For that reason, it is recommended not to use that feature. Also, the years available in the input field are manually defined. You'll have to update the filter shortcode in 2021 to support that year.
