Archives Revolution

A maintained fork of Smart Archives Reloaded: grouped year-and-month post archives, in several elegant formats.

Why a fork?

Smart Archives Reloaded, by scribu -- itself built on Justin Blanton's original Smart Archives -- is good, solid software still running on 900+ sites, but it hadn't been updated since November 2017 (version 2.0.5), and had stopped working outright on PHP 8.

This fork picks up from there: the PHP 8 fatal error, the security issues that had accumulated since 2017, and a number of long-standing bugs are fixed, while everything else -- the look, the shortcode's behaviour, the templates -- is kept as close to the original as possible.

It's published as a separate, independent plugin, under its own name, out of respect for scribu's ownership of the original rather than in spite of it. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by scribu or Justin Blanton -- issues with this fork belong here, not with them.

Credits: Justin Blanton, who wrote the original Smart Archives plugin · scribu, who built Smart Archives Reloaded on top of it, and whose plugin this forks · Simon Pritchard, for the fancy format.

Formats

Installation

1. Download the latest release and upload it to wp-content/plugins/, or clone this repository there directly.
2. Activate Archives Revolution from the Plugins screen.
3. Add [archives_revolution] to a page or post, or call <?php archives_revolution(); ?> from a theme template.

Documentation

Shortcode attributes, filters, template overriding and the full changelog are documented in readme.txt, in the standard WordPress plugin readme format.

License

GPLv2 or later. See readme.txt and the license headers in the source.