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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Hi! My name is Vladimir Prelovac. I am a computer engineer by profession and an adventurer by state of mind.
217 Comments
Thanks for your response -- but I have tried re-installing, changing permissions, and voodoo.
Yet the archives will not collapse and the corners stay square no matter how I set the options.
Any idea why collapsing does not work -- do I need to have something special running on mu server? And the corners -- what would cause them to stay square? Can you give me some clues as to where to look? I have another site, on this same host, that works perfectly. I cannot find any different between the two, except the one that works uses WP2.7 and the one that does not uses WP2.8.
Thanks again for a great plugin -- I want it!
It works in 2.8 as you can see on my site.
Love your plugin -- but can't get it to work on WordPress 2.8. I had it working perfectly on 2.7. I even copied all the files from my 2.7 install to the 2.8 install -- no luck. The various months do not collapse and he corners do not round -- no matter what options I select in the admin menu.
Is this a bug or am I going nuts?
Hello,
I had installed your plugin and it worked fine, however, then I deactivated and deleted it to test server performance. Then I reinstalled, reactivated it and tried to set it up again. But now it failed!
All I see on my page is : [snazzy-archives] which is supposed to be the code to call the pretty pictures and archives. However, all I get is the actual line of code showing up and no pictures, no archives.
What happened? I set up all the settings right.
thanks for sharing (L)
great plug-in!
i would like to implement this into a gallery theme created by chris wallace, however, instead of using photo from the post entry, can i use someother photo in a custom field entry from the post? if so, anyone knows who?
cheers,
it's ok... i realized that you have changed collapsing option in order to save space... sorry for bothering... best... deborah
hi, vladamir! how are you?!
I just made an update to new wordpress version and my snazzy archive looks different now... i have to click every date in order to get the image out... could you please visit my site... snazzy archive is in upper menu, at the begging of my blog... thanx a lot... deborah
That plugin looks like a beauty, but I get the same error as José:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 68658 bytes) in /home/(........) /wp-content/plugins/snazzy-archives/snazzy-archives.php on line 209
What could the problem be?!
Installed Snazzy in a page and archives are showing but pictures in the posts are all cut up and in the middle of the title chopped up.
Sorry but I think I cried wolf too soon. Think I got it fixed.
Thanks
Installed Snazzy in a page and archives are showing but pictures in the posts are all cut up and in the middle of the title chopped up. Is there something I need to tweek?
I LOVE this plug-in. Is there any way to limit the archive by category? I'd like to create an archive of one category...Thanks!
Hi. I love to use your WP plug-in for my archive page, but I have a question.
I'm managing my website in Japanese language, and the language seems to cause your plug-in not to work properly.
The full-length articles are somehow on the archive page without quoting. If you have a suggestion for the solution, please let me know.
Sincerely
Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to list the posts in horizontal order instead of vertical order?
Jose,
You can find some information here:
http://webmasterhotspot.com/index.php?s=a66447eb60f13da255d6bf4f42ac606e&showtopic=9372
Hi,
Im getting this error:
"Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 84139 bytes)"
Any help will be helpful. TIA
hi, i want to implement this archive to my baby son's website as well, i want to make a full page archives but the theme that i am using is constraint to a fix dimension, if i use it as a template how can i avoid the size issue?
Wow! Very ell done. Beautiful! It doesn't get any better than this.
You can see my implementation here:
http://medicinemind.org/?page_id=365
Thank you for this fancy archive-plugin!
Hi, I love the look of this archive plugin - but on my website the scrollbars are not visible, so it gets cut off. Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you
If it is premium I am sure they provide support for issues like this so you can contact them. As far as I know Snazzy Archives works on all WP installations.
Thesis is essentially a premium theme for Wordpress. Check out diythemes.com/thesis I really like the look of Snazzy but I just can't seem to get it to work. Also, I'm a coding noob so that may be it...
Any idea abou how this can be made to work with Thesis Vlad?
Any suggestions/recommendations for how to make this work best with the Thesis theme? It looks very charming and I'm curious for more info.
I have the same problem as Nash. How do I get Snazzy Archives to appear in my sidebar? Where do I put the extra code and what is the extra code?
Thanks,
-MJ