Listing Archives on Index Templates

Top Level Categories, Subcategories, and Sub-Category-Monthly Archives ==

• Option 1 below used on the Archive Index template of the MTCS Forums template set, Option 2 was previous solution.
• Assumes there are no entries in the top-level categories, only second-level categories.

Option 1

Pseudo Code

For each top level category, output:

• Category Label
• Secondary level categories, if category contains entries. For each category, output:
  • Category Label linked to the Category Archive.
  • list and link to each Category-Monthly archive, and display category archive counts.

Code

<mt:TopLevelCategories>
<div class="archive">
    <h2 class="primary-category"><$mt:CategoryLabel$></h2>
    <mt:SubCategories>
        <mt:if tag="CategoryCount">
    <h3 class="archive-header"><a href="<$mt:CategoryArchiveLink$>"><$mt:CategoryLabel$></a></h3>
    <div class="archive-content">
        <mt:ArchiveList archive_type="Category-Monthly" sort_order="descend">
            <mt:ArchiveListHeader>
        <ul>
            </mt:ArchiveListHeader>
            <li><a href="<$mt:ArchiveLink$>"><$mt:ArchiveDate format="%B %Y"$> (<$mt:ArchiveCount$>)</a></li>
            <mt:ArchiveListFooter>
        </ul>
            </mt:ArchiveListFooter>
        </mt:ArchiveList>
    </div>
        </mt:if>
    </mt:SubCategories>
</div>
</mt:TopLevelCategories>

Option 2

Pseudo Code

For each Category containing entries:

• Parent Category Label and archive title (in this case, Category Label)
• List and link to Category-Monthly archives, and display category archive counts.

Code

<mt:ArchiveList archive_type="Category">
<div class="archive">
    <h2 class="archive-header"><mt:ParentCategory><$mt:CategoryLabel$>: </mt:ParentCategory><$mt:ArchiveTitle$></h2>
    <div class="archive-content">
    <mt:ArchiveList archive_type="Category-Monthly" sort_order="descend">
    <mt:ArchiveListHeader>
        <ul class="archive-list">
    </mt:ArchiveListHeader>
            <li class="archive-list-item"><a href="<$mt:ArchiveLink$>"><$mt:ArchiveDate format="%B %Y"$> (<$mt:ArchiveCount$>)</a></li>
    <mt:ArchiveListFooter>
        </ul>
    </mt:ArchiveListFooter>
    </mt:ArchiveList>
    </div>
</div>
</mt:ArchiveList>