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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346 Comments
I tried this again and just to make sure it wasn't my theme, I tried with kubrick and wordpress classic. No luck on either front. The PHP in snazzy-archives.php looks better though, so I have no idea why I cannot make this work. Bummer.
I was showing off the results of this plugin on my diet site and have had no problems with it. It really makes the page look great.
I was trying to install it on another site but had no success, I know it has to do with the template so I will probably experiment with other templates.
The way it brings out the posts is very impressive and it makes the Archive Page stand out.
I have Albeo as a template.
I used the snazzy.php template but the sidebar keeps loading :(
What can I do?
I cant find any solution to this...because the snazzy template should be enough to suppress the sidebar...but it doesnt work!
Using latest v1.0.1. It works fine on my blog, except when I enable "Use Snazzy Cache". In the plugin options page, I see this text: "Your wp-content folder is writeable by WordPress. You may use the cache."
However, if I check the "Use Snazzy Cache" box, nothing appears on the archives page except for the navigation buttons, even after refresh.
I really need cache function as the current load time of my archives page is quite long (lots of images)... which makes use of the plugin not realistic for my case.
Anyway, thanks for this fantastic plugin. It's really quite... super.
Still no luck here. Same as before :(
Released version 1.0.1 with an added security fix. Please try that.
I think it is probably a problem with this newest release from Nov. 22. Hopefully Vladimir will look into it.
Karen, If you find out how to do it work, please let me know. I have the same issue here.
I am unable to get this to work. The code breaks the page as soon as it tries to load snazzy archives. I looked at snazzy-archives.php and it looks like there is a missing }, " or ; (I am no PHP expert). I can see on about line 99 after the script where it quits reading as PHP. I owuld LOVE to use this, but I am stuck.
Hi, Im unable to use this plugin and I really want to. The page created for mi archive stops the load of the rest of the page at the title of the same, and nothing is showed. Any help will be appreciated. Regards and thanks in advance.
Argh sorry I keep clicking send before I think of everything I want to ask, can it exclude categories too? For example only show archives from category 1?
Oh I see it has to be in a post or page. Is there any way to insert it as a widget or into my sidebar?
I'm confused as to how to implement it. I just get some text saying [snazzy-archive] on my page. How do I activate it?
А вы можете сделать хелп на русском языке , а то у меня с англиским засада =(
very nice plugin, would love to see a sidebar widget with this!
Snazzy Archives v1.0 is out and better than ever!
- Added caching
- Added option to load images
- Added option to specify page id, so the scripts load only that page
Enjoy :)
Snazzy Archives is fantastic - very eyecatching and attractive for visitors.
Tremendous archives pluggage.
Best archives I've seen. Great job.
Thanks,
James
http://jamesspratt.org
This is really a nice plugin.. thanx for sharing...
@valerie - PS you can see the plugin on my test page ;)
Hi! First, I am really glad I found your plugin. It looks really cool. However I have no idea how you did what you did, my knowledge of php is not great (yet..) and so I don't know how to change the plugin to fit my needs.
What I really want, is to show only part of this on my blog's homepage; just the last month, preferably in a confined space (a div with many divs- or more precise; more like a calendar layout and it would be even greater f I could have empty spaces for days without posts) The whole thing, also preferably confined in another layou, would be on a different page.
Anyway, as I said, I don't know how you did this, maybe it's possible to adapt it to what I'm looking for, maybe it's not, maybe you don't want it to be altered like that at all! However if you could help me out, point me in th right direction or just tell me what you think, it would be very much appreciated.
I'm happy with image resize mode:)
Hi.
I'm using v0.6.1 of Snazzy and when using IE7 the vertical scrollbar is shown in a not to attractive way. I read more than me have had this problem but I haven't found any way to fix it. Any suggestions?
Very nice plugin by the way, I hope you can fix the problem since i really would like to use in on my site.
Have a nice weekend.
First, i love this plugin, many things for all the work you put into it for us to use!!! One question, is it possible to change the font types and colors of the year, month, date, and quote? I've been looking at the code and i can't figure it out. i'm no expert of coding but i can usually figure it out eventually, i've been looking and i can't find anything though...please help?
@Morten Skogly - Thanks for the fix. Regarding the problem you can always try temporary disabling other plugins and seeing if it works or not.
@Myrko | AwakeBlogger - Unfortunately not