[m i a o w] the cat

I am feeling almost a religious fervour. Here I was, back in August 2004, snivelling on the WordPress forums, begging to know what seemed to me to be a very simple but necessary thing. When I look in my archives at (for example) May 2004 I want to read from the start of the month, to the end of the month. Why on earth would I want to read backwards?

And so, sporadically, I trawl the web for hours on end, googling for descending + archives + wordpress and archives plugin wordpress chronological. I have (seriously, this is how pathetic I became) installed Extended Live Archives, Custom Query String, Smart Archives, SRG Clean Archives and Smarter Archives.

I snivelled back, finally, to my original post that I tend to ignore, and was astonished to find that someone called Phillip Pearson had written a ‘little plugin’ addressing my original post. The plugin is “ascending-date-order-archives.php” and you can get it over here. Thank you Phillip Pearson - I was becoming obsessive, and now I can get on with other things.

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COMMENTS / 2 COMMENTS

Thanks… have to check it out.

dan typed this on Jun 25 06 at 3:29 pm

Hey, glad you like it!

I wasn’t kidding about it being a *little* plugin - the important bit is only 5 lines of code

With any luck Wordpress will do this sort of thing by itself one day …