shawno

Yes it works. Let me list what I did for future reference for anyone who wants to try it. It’s very simple, and you can see it in action at my site.
1. Change permalinks as suggested in Mt.DewVirus’ guide and copy corresponding rewrite rules to .htaccess file.
2. No my-hacks.php file is required.
3. Open index.php and comment-out ‘the_content()’ like so:
<div class=”storycontent”>
<?php //the_content(); ?>
4. Save the file as ‘arch.php’.
5. Set what_to_show as ‘posts’
Done.

I think I’ve followed the instructions to the letter. Anyway, I have another idea on how it might work. I’ve managed to create a ‘arch.php’ file that displays the archive the way I wan’t it–I just comment out the ‘the_content()’ part. Now, if I can get the archive links to point to arch.php instead of index.php, it would work. I’m wondering if these are the lines to modify (under ‘get_archives’ function) and what to do to them.
// archive link url
$archive_link_m = $siteurl.’/’.$blogfilename.$querystring_start.’m’.$querystring_equal; # monthly archive;
$archive_link_w = $siteurl.’/’.$blogfilename.$querystring_start.’w’.$querystring_equal; # weekly archive;
$archive_link_p = $siteurl.’/’.$blogfilename.$querystring_start.’p’.$querystring_equal; # post-by-post archive;