Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be boring again!
Snazzy archives simply lets you express yourself and your blog. You can select different layouts and special effects, Snazzy archives will make sure your content stands out.
Snazzy Archives in action
Main features
- Unique visual presentation of blog posts
- Will work out of the box with all features
- Posts are scanned for images and youtube videos and shown together with number of comments
- Different editable layouts (HTML and CSS)
- Special effects using jQuery
- Caching available for faster access
Demo
- Layout 1 - All posts are evenly spread in blocks
- Layout 2 - Try clicking date and month headers!
- Special FX 1 Carousel - for saving space, a carousel
- Special FX 2 jQuert Space - still experimental, rotating post cloud
- Special FX 3 Flash Space - still experimental, using flash
Download
Installation & Usage
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- Use the Options page to change your options
- Use the code
[snazzy-archive](without one space) in a post or page where you want to display the archive
You may want to edit the CSS file immediately to adjust the look for your blog. Please read the FAQ for explanation how.
Frequently Asked Questions
Supprt questions can be asked in the plugin support forum.
This looks like Tumblr!
The idea comes actually from this page and people from a popular microblogging platform Tumblr have used it on their blogs as well. I have taken the idea further, creating a plugin that is differnt in many ways.
How can I change default size of archive?
Open style-archive.css for editing. This is the main file for styling information. First element .snazzy describes the main container.
Height attribute is the height of archive, remove the line if you want full height. Same applies to width. If the archive can not fit in the container, scrollbars will be shown like on the picture.
Also you can enable special effect 1 in your plugin options, this will create a so called carousel effect that will further save space.
How do I change the height and width of the posts and pictures?
Just edit the width of .sz_cont element and height of .sz_img element and notice the change immediately.
How can I show archives full screen like you do?
First create a new empty template file, for example snazzy.php, Then just include header and Snazzy archive call, not the sidebar.Then upload snazzy.php to your theme folder and create a new page on your blog using this template (write page and select this template instead of the default; the option for template is found below the post).
Here is how can one such file look like:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Snazzy Archives
*/?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<p align="center">
<?php if (isset($SnazzyArchives)) echo $SnazzyArchives->display(); ?>
</p><?php get_footer(); ?>
How do I edit and add layouts?
Layouts are stored in files snazzy-layout-1.php, snazzy-layout-2.php and so on.. Edit these fles or make your own using the available variables
- $first_for_day - is the comment first for given day, used usually for additional clearance
- $title - post title
- $excerpt - post excerpt
- $comcount - number of comments
- $imageurl - url of the post image
- $youtubeurl - url of the video (without http://)
- $day, $month, $year - date of post
How do I set carousel options?
Options for carousel (special effect #1) can be found in snazzy-archives.js.php file. You can set how many elements are visible at once (variable visible) and if you change width of the items in your CSS file, do not forget to change it here as well - option def_width (add 16px for default padding).
How can I contribute?
You can create your own custom layouts and special effects! Send them to me for inclusion in future versions. Also you can send your feedback, bug reports and suggestions.
Change log
v1.0
- Added caching
- Added option to load images
- Added option to specify page id, so the scripts load only that page
v0.6 - Added options to show years in rows and months in reverse order (thanks Jorge Sierra!)
v0.5 - IE fix and xHTML compliance
v0.4 - bug fix release. changed the code to [snazzy-archive]
v0.1 - First release
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23 Comments
Very cool plugin! This is a fabulous idea. The JavaScript doesn't work very well in IE7, though. When I click on the day on your Archives page it doesn't do anything. Works fine in FF2. Have you seen this? Is this something you hope to fix?
Thanks,
David
Heh. Don't have anything interesting for the year phrases? Try these:
2005#The Year of the Rooster
2006#The Year of the Dog
2007#The Year of the Pig
2008#The Year of the Rat
2009#The Year of the Ox
2010#The Year of the Tiger
2011#The Year of the Hare
2012#The Year of the Dragon
2013#The Year of the Snake
2014#The Year of the Horse
2015#The Year of the Sheep
2016#The Year of the Monkey
Animals from the Chinese Zodiac. :)
Awesome feature... where's your donate button? I'd easily toss $5 your way for this (not a lot, but I'm a cheap ass).
The blog I'm using this on is mostly utilized two months a year - is there any way to columnize this by week, and not just by month?
Keep rockin!
Well done Otto, nice find.
Minor little patch that you might consider putting in:
If you change this bit:
$youtubeurl=$matches2[0];
if ($youtubeurl)
$imageurl=$this->plugin_url.'/i/video.png';
into this instead:
$youtubeurl=$matches2[0];
if ($youtubeurl)
$imageurl="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/{$matches2[3]}/0.jpg";
Then you'll get the thumbnail images of your YouTube videos showing up in the archives instead of that default "YouTube" graphic.
vlad,
i liked your archives plugin, and it is very useful as it gives a snapshot of the posts in the blog, and a user can easily decide which to view.
however, i would like to tell you that the archives display protected posts as well! it would be good if those posts are not displayed in the archives.
ciao,
roxy
i want to say i would like to change the name (translation in french) even myself
if could change name of month it will be perfect !!!
Very cool plugin!
I just have one suggestion to make, can you make the number of visible elements in the Carousel an option? Fixing it at 3 may be too narrow for some people.
I liked your theme so much I am using it now myself. I will be changing it so that it's not too much like yours, but am very new to this game so please give me a little time. I also love the Snazzy Archives plug-in, but can't seem to get it working. I have activated it in the plug-ins area, but can't seem to figure out what to do next. Thank you for any help you can give and I apologize in advance for the noob question.
Thanks again for your amazing work and allowing us to use it as well!
Is there any way to make the plugin show images, where the url is in a custom field?
What a great idea. Does it enhance or detract from SEO of archive pages?
I have just posted latest version v0.3 where you can select to display posts and/or pages.
There will be an option in the new version to select posts, pages or both ;)
Rudy: It doesnt work for me in ff3 on your page as well, but in IE7.. it's just beautiful isn't :) oops.. you have extra float:left in your #header_img remove it and it will be fine...
Iva; hvala ti puno!
Great plugin, Vlad. Just awesome!
I do have problems with it though. I can't view the snazzy archive page on FF3, but I can view it on IE7 (with Javascript errors). I'm using the full screen php template you suggested in your FAQ. Is my theme getting in the way?
My snazzy page is http://www.amid.com/werd/snazzy/
I ja se slažem sa Ottom i Leanne, definitivno bi bilo bolje da je samo za blog, a ne i za stranice. I držim palčeve na takmičenju!
2.5.1 install, unfortuntely, absolutely nothing shows on my archives page !–snazzy-archive– is in the source
The archives page also shows Pages instead of just my Posts. You should limit it to only show Posts, as Pages don't conceptually have a date/time on them.
Easy fix, just add AND post_type = 'post' to the query.
Can you maybe tell me why not all of my images show on my archive page, it says 'image not found' while other images show perfectly. What can i do to resolve this problem. BTW i love your theme and snazzy archives is just beautiful (if all my images will load)
Best
Edwin Kommerkamp
lol, what ever rocks your boat :)
mmm I wasn't v. clear was I? Thinking about it I probably couldn't do that anyway. It might also look nice as a categories page if that was possible.
Leanne :)
thanks :)
What do you mean by just for posts?
I love this too much for my archives page can I use it just for posts?
thanks
Hope you win!
Leanne