Title: Advanced Functionality
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Advanced Functionality

 *  Resolved [Nith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nith/)
 * (@nith)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-functionality/)
 * Hello,
 * I looking for help to implement some functionality, but don’t have the WordPress
   dev knowledge to pull it off. The details are below:
    1. Have a drop down menu which contains months where there are posts available,
       sort of like an archive thing. (How would I populate this?!)
    2. When the user selects a month from the drop-down, this month with be used as
       a parameter in the url. I.E [http://www.mydomain.com/pages/folio/?filter=September](http://www.mydomain.com/pages/folio/?filter=September)
    3.  (This step I can do myself).
    4. Then, if the filter parameter is set, I want the code below (which i currently
       have fetching my posts) to be modified to only fetch posts from that month (
       which will be the value of the $_GET[‘filter’]
 * Code I currently have fetching posts:
 *     ```
       <?php
       	$taxonomy = 'category';
       	$param_type = 'category__in';
       	$term_args=array(
       		'include'=> '3',
       		'orderby' => 'name',
       		'order' => 'ASC'
       	);
       	$terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$term_args);
       	if ($terms) {
       		foreach( $terms as $term ) {
       			$args=array(
       				"$param_type" => array($term->term_id),
       				'post_type' => 'post',
       				'post_status' => 'publish',
       				'posts_per_page' => 10,
       				'caller_get_posts'=> 1
       			); 
   
       			$my_query = null;
       			$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
       			if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
       				$count = 0; ?>
   
       				<li>
   
       					<?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
       					if ( ++$count > 1 && ($count - 1) % 2 == 0 ) echo '</li><li>' ; ?>
   
       						<!-- Removed irelevant code -->
   
       					<?php endwhile; ?>
   
       				</li>
   
       			<?php }
       		}
       	}
   
       	wp_reset_query();
   
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Hopefully this isn’t too ambitious, I’ve tried to include as much detail as possible.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-functionality/#post-1548217)
 * There’s a built-in widget that does this already, under **Admin > Themes > Wigets**,
   titled **Archives**.
 * Select the dropdown option, give the widget a title, job done, a dropdown that
   changes the page and selects posts based on the selected month.
 * Or i’m sure it would work in conjunction with custom code if you had something
   broader in mind, but take a look at the widget first, it should save having to
   write something to do the same from scratch… 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-functionality/#post-1548217)
 * Status: resolved

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