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<p>The archives within WordPress are pretty limited in a sense that they do not offer much configuration beyond what they do. Date based will be date based, like category based archives will only display categories. This plugin mitigates the issue by giving date based archives the ability to list content by categories as well.</p>
<p>This is done via modification of the rewrite rules to allow for the ability to have permalinks like http://yourblog.com/2008/in-blog/. This basically is a date based archive that shows only entries from the “blog” category.</p>
<p>This plugin can also work without the usage of rewrite rules. It currently supports date based archives for years and months.</p>
<h3>Usable Commands for Theme Developers</h3>
<p>The PHP commands for theme developers to use are pretty straight forward.</p>
<p><em>cba_get_category_id()</em> returns the current category ID of the archive.</p>
<p><em>cba_the_year()</em> returns the current year of the date based archive.</p>
<p><em>cba_the_month()</em> returns the current month of the date based archive.</p>
<p><em>cba_auto_thedate()</em> gets the string representation of the date.</p>
<p><em>cba_get_year_link($year)</em> returns the permalink for the year archive based on the current category.</p>


Category Based Archives

Allows date based archives to be listed by category.

chsxf

<p>mCatFilter for WordPress allows you to exclude categories from The Loop for display on the home page, in feeds and some archive pages.</p>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Very simple setup and configuration</li>
<li>No theme manipulation required</li>
<li>Excluded categories are still available through custom queries </li>
<li>Fully integrated with the WordPress internationalization API</li>
</ul>
<h4>System requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>PHP version <strong>5.2.4</strong> or higher</li>
<li>WordPress 3.2+</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>By default, mCatFilter does not exclude any category. To select excluded categories, proceed as follow :</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to your Administration panel </li>
<li>Go to your mCatFilter page</li>
<li>Check any category you want to exclude from the list</li>
<li>Click “Save changes” button</li>
<li><em>You’re done !</em> Selected categories should be excluded from default queries</li>
</ol>
<p>You can also select/deselect a category for exclusion from the edit category form.</p>
<h3>Online Resources</h3>
<p>If you have any questions that aren’t addressed in this document, please visit <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mcatfilter" rel="ugc">the support forums</a>.</p>
<h3>Known issues</h3>
<p>None at this time</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>mCatFilter, as WordPress, is released under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 (see license.txt).<br />
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation under the terms of the GNU General Public License is hereby granted. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided “as is” without express or implied warranty.</p>


mCatFilter

Excludes categories from The Loop for display on the home page, in feeds and some archive pages.

Category Based Archives vs mCatFilter