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It’s weird, right? Considering all the posts that we write on our blogs, neither Blogger nor WordPress automatically create a page of an archive of all your posts. Archive pages are great to allow readers to have a browse through all of your posts at once – the methods described here are a little basic, but they do the job.

Blogger

Create a new page on your site called “Archives”

In the HTML mode, copy and paste the following code, replacing “bonjourblogger” in the blogspot URL with your own blog name.

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cloud.github.com/downloads/jhwilson/Create-a-Blogger-archive-page/Make-Blogger-Archive-Page.js"> </script> <script src="https://bonjourblogger.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500&alt=json-in-script&callback=LoadTheArchive"> </script>

Save, and check our your new archive page which lists all blog post titles and dates (this code is from jhwilson’s GitHub page!)

WordPress.com

Create a new page on your site called “Archives”

Insert the shortcode

Save the page…that’s it!

(You can find more specific codes to narrow down your archives feature on this page)

WordPress.org (self hosted)

You can either use the short code described above, create an archive manually using the directions on this page,  or install a plugin like Archives Calendar or Smart Archives Reloaded (We haven’t tried Archives Calendar, so install at your own risk! Smart Archives Reloaded works well, but hasn’t been updated in years, so again, install at your own risk.)

Hayley has been blogging since before most people knew what a blog was! She started Bonjour, Blogger! in May 2013 as a way to share her knowledge and experiences - if you ever have a question, get in touch!

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3 Comments

    1. Hi,
      I’ve just tried this out and it does still work – I can see by your URL that you’re on WordPress.com, so you will need to follow those instructions, not the ones below them for self hosted WordPress.org.
      This is how your page should look:

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