Show Titles Only, Not Full Entries
Question
My archive pages are getting too long, so I'd like to change them to just a listing of entries with titles and permalinks, rather than showing the full body for every entry. How do I do this?
Answer
Go to the Edit Template screen for the Archive Template you want to change. Look for the section of code that starts with <MTEntries> and ends with </MTEntries>; then replace it with code similar to this:
<ul>
<MTEntries>
<li><MTEntryDate format="%x"> - »
<a href="<MTEntryPermalink archive_type="Individual">" »
title="<MTEntryExcerpt>"> »
<MTEntryTitle></a></li>
</MTEntries>
</ul>This creates a list, showing the date for each entry in that archive, with the title linked to the Individual Archive page for the entry. The title tag for the link is the excerpt for the entry. You can, of course, edit the tags used to display whichever information you wish, but this should get you pointed in the right direction.
1 The » indicates line breaks added for display purposes; you should remove these breaks when using this code.
