channel=¶

channel="news"

The name of the channel you want to limit the query to.

limit=¶

limit="10"

The number of rows to return.

sort=¶

sort="asc" ``sort="desc"``

The sort order can be ascending or descending. The order will default to “descending” if nothing is specified.

show_expired=¶

show_expired="yes"

You can determine whether you wish for entries that have “expired” to be included.

show_future_entries=¶

show_future_entries="yes"

You can determine whether you wish for entries dated in the “future” to be included. This option is useful when doing things like creating a list of events, some of which have not occurred yet.

status=¶

status="open"

You may restrict to entries with a particular status. The two statuses “open” and “closed” are default statuses that are always available, so you can always specify those if needed. You can choose multiple statuses using a pipe:

status="draft|reviewed|published"

Or exclude statuses using “not”

status="not submitted|processing|closed"

month¶

{month}

Month, long format: September

month_num¶

{month_num}

Month, numeric: 09

month_short¶

{month_short}

Month, short format: Sep

path¶

{path='channel/archives'}

The URL to the specified template. The month/year part of the link will be added automatically.

For example, this

<a href="{path='channel/archives'}">{month}, {year}</a>

Will be rendered like this

<a href="example.com/index.php/channel/archives/2003/12/">December, 2003</a>

{path='template_group/template_name'}

year¶

{year}

Year, long format: 2003

year_short¶

{year_short}

Year, short format: 03

year_heading¶

{year_heading}
    <p>{year}</p>
{/year_heading}

The year heading can be used to show information once for each year.