Monthly Article Archive for Joomla and K2

Visitors see at a glance which months have articles, and how many.

Create a Monthly Archive menu item and Joomla gets one page that lists every year and month with published content. Each month links to its own page with a short address such as /monthly-archive/2025/04.

• Article count beside every year and month
• Category, author and keyword filters above the list
• Newest or oldest years first, months in either order

Turn off the images and the meta row and the archive becomes a clean reading list.

Set Display Type to List of Articles in the core settings to show the articles directly, without the year and month list first.

• Pagination with 30 items per page by default, or unlimited
• Intro text cut to the length you set
• Only the HTML tags you allow are kept

A reader looking for one article types a word and sees only the articles that contain it.

The search box on the archive page filters by keyword together with the month, category and author. For a search box in a sidebar or inside an article, publish the Search module.

• Matching words highlighted in the results
• The Search module shows results without a page reload
• Card or compact result style

Keep the filters your readers use and hide the rest.

The Search Options are set separately for the year and month page and for the article list page.

• Author, category and keyword fields on the archive page
• Date, order, author, category and keyword fields on the article list
• Default List or Accordion for the years and months

Fine-tune what search engines and logged-in users get.

The Advanced Settings tab adds comment counts and robots tags, and can limit the archive to each user's own articles.

• Comment count beside titles from JComments or K2
• Robots and nofollow settings for the archive page
• Show only own articles, with user groups that still see everything