Inspired by Chris Coyier’s archive at CSS-Tricks, I’ve decided to create the Ultimate Archive Index With Pagination. By Ultimate, I mean, functions well and looks good! I’ll be the first to say, I’m a beginner when it comes to PHP or hacking Wordpress. I knew what I wanted it to do, and how I wanted it to look. All I had to do was find out how I was going to accomplish it. After many hours of trial and error, I’ve achieved what I wanted to achieve, and I’m going to share it with you.

This is one of those things you see done on a lot of blogs, but just can’t seem to find a simple answer on how they did it. What we’re going to do is create a page that lists our post excerpts which will contain a title, date, category, comment count, and of course the content. Simple right? Chances are we’ve all done this already. I mean, it’s pretty much a standard wordpress blog setup. What we’re going to do differently is take the post image out of the the_excerpt(); completely and create a custom field instead.