Grouping Channel Entries by Year and Displaying Year Only Once
Development and Programming
I’m on EE 3.5.6 and need to:
- Return a paginated list of channel entries grouped by year.
- Display the year only once at the beginning of each set of results within that year.
- Display data from custom fields from each entry.
So far, I’ve come up with two ways to do this or to get close.
- CSS/JS that removes all but the first occurrence of each year from the DOM.
- Using a yearly archive plugin and calling an embedded template that lists only entries for the embedded year.
The embedded solution doesn’t really let me paginate like it should be paginated and, since there are a lot of entries, adds many queries and page load time. The DOM solution is alright, I suppose, but I’m wondering if there’s a better solution; preferably without enabling PHP in the template.
Thanks.
I am assuming, since you mentioned a plugin, you looked at Low’s Yearly Archives already? http://gotolow.com/addons/low-yearly-archives
From the most basic view, have you looked at the channel entry variable date_heading, i.e. {date_heading display=”yearly”)
https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/channel/channel_entries.html
{exp:channel:entries
channel="channel_name"
status="open"
date_heading display="yearly"
limit="xx"
}Excellent. The date_heading variable pair accomplishes exactly what I needed without an embed or DOM scripting. Thanks, Jeremy.