Jazz up your archives

Arnaud Froment has released a very interesting plugin for wordpress.

Using a combination of Ajax techniques his Extended Live Archive plugin will revolutionise the way you view blog archives.
Like so many other WordPress plugins, Arnaud’s is almost a case of “drag and drop” to get it working.
It’s not quite that simple 🙂
In order to get the plugin working follow the instructions on his site. Once you have completed the basic install and activated it via the plugin manager you will need to do three more things:

1. Add some CSS
2. Create a page or file
3. Include a call to the PHP function

Step 1 is easy enough. In the zip archive there is an example CSS. You can add this into your template header.
Step 2 – I did it by simply creating a new page and using the archives template which I think is standard
Step 3 – Add the tag to the archives template. You can remove the other stuff if you wish.
It should now work. You can see mine in action here
It can take a few seconds fro the page to load, as it has to “build” all the menus, DOMs etc.,
Enjoy!