How to organize your blog’s archives

I’m trying since one month ago to organize the archives of All Tips And Tricks in a way that they are more accessible for new readers: for each category, I wanted the archive page to display the list of posts, in reverse chronological order, and a small excerpt for each post. Everything I tried resulted in errors, after errors, after errors. Googling did not solve my problem, although I tried it really hard.

Yesterday I figured out the winner combination: install a Wordpress plugin and delete two lines of code from the archives file and you get the result you can see now if you browse through my archives.

1. The Wordpress plugin:

Evermore from Semicolon, discovered thanks to QuickOnlineTips, which is the best organized blog I’ve ever encountered.
Evermore automatically displays short previews of your posts on pages containing more than one post. Each preview includes a link to the full post. The plugin requires only installation and activation, and you’re done. If there are multiple post pages where you don’t want Evermore enabled, you just insert in the code (I wonder what Edgar Allan Poe would think about that).

2. The code lines to delete:

The navigation links. In my case, this is the code (you might want to look for something similar in your blog’s template):

Deleting them forces the page to display more than one post on page. This activates Evermore, which forces the posts to display only titles and excerpts.