How to pass a year query string to a Page?

Haven’t tried it, but maybe you get an yearly archive using Template Tags/wp get archives?

songdogtech

Haven’t tried it, but maybe you get an yearly archive using Template Tags/wp get archives?

Yes, but that would lead to the links pointing to urls like https://localhost/wordpress/2010/ which would not have the thumbnails.

I could change the category and archive templates to do thumbnails, but then I would not have the normal views of archives.

Perhaps I should change the architeture of these archives – get rid of the page, just use category.php and archive.php and provide a checkbox for the user to choose thumbnail view or normal view – using functions get_option, add_option, update_option?

Just a thought: if ‘year’ is a restricted url parameter, try using something like ‘myyear’. Check for it in the template and set the query accordingly.

If this works, I think the previous/next posts link will work also, since I believe that user parameters get passed along in those links.

@vtxyzzy I had the same problem and that fixed it. ?year= is restricted url parameter.

@dongaspari: Would you mind sharing your solution?

@roadie: Would you consider a URL structure like this?

https://localhost/wordpress/picture-archive/2010/

Not that it really matters, you can do them either way. But first I need to know, what code were you using to get and use the year parameter? I need that before I can create a complete working example.

-Mike
P.S. And if you want to ask the question over at https://wordpress.stackexchange.com it is much easier to provide good working examples as an answer because WA on SE allows a lot more formatting and preview as you type, fwiw.

@mikeschinkel: I don’t want to hijack roadie’s thread, but I for one would actually prefer that URL structure… but being the newb I am, I don’t even have anything in place to get and use the year parameter.

@cableb – But you need to have a concrete use-case otherwise I wouldn’t know what to implement. What are you trying to accomplish from a user perspective, not a technical one?

@mikeschinkel: If this is even possible…

I have my archive page (https://mydomain/archive-page/) that has years listed on it. Ideally, these would link to https://mydomain/archive-page/2003/, etc., and at those URLs, I’d like to grab the year and use it as a variable (like $yr = the tail end of the URL).

But those URLs aren’t yearly archives, so what exactly is their purpose? One can append any number of random digits to any page and it’ll still show up.

I’ve tried using simply the_time(‘Y’); and a URL structure like https://mydomain/2003/category/mycategory/, but that didn’t work (it always returned 2010) because apparently with the category parameters in there, it’s not considered a yearly archive…

Thanks for taking the time to at least hear me out!

@cableb: Let me see if I understand. Currently you have:

• https://example.com/archives/ and
• https://example.com/2010/

But instead you want:

• https://example.com/archives/ and
• https://example.com/archives/2010/

Is that correct?

@cableb – Based on the above (hope it’s what you needed) you can put the following in your theme’s functions.php file and it will support the URL designs I showed above. The flush_rules() is only needed once and should really just go into a plugin activation hook but that’s more work than I want to document tonight (google it instead):

add_action('init','assign_yearly_archives_url');
function assign_yearly_archives_url() {
	global $wp_rewrite;
	$wp_rewrite->add_permastruct('archives-by-year', 'archives/%year%');
	$wp_rewrite->flush_rules(false);
}

Note this only works because WordPress already has an internal %year% variable. If you were doing something with a variable that WordPress doesn’t already assign you’d have a lot more work to do.

This will load the archives.php template in your theme. If for example you wanted a specific theme file for your yearly archives you could use this following code and then create a archives-year.php file based on archives.php but modified to be specific to year:

add_action('archive_template','specify_yearly_archive_template');
function specify_yearly_archive_template($template) {
	global $wp_query;
	if (!empty($wp_query->query_vars['year'])) {
		$ssd = get_stylesheet_directory();
		$template = "{$ssd}/archive-year.php";
	}
	return $template;
}

Hope this helps.

-Mike

It does indeed help! Thanks a bunch, Mike.