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I’m using the following snippet to create a pulldown menu for selecting a monthly archive:

<select class="form" name="Month">
{exp:channel:month_links channel="news"}
<option value="{path='channel/newsarchive'}"{if segment_3 == year AND segment_4 == month_num} selected{/if}>{month} {year}</option>
{/exp:channel:month_links}
</select>

The issue is that month_links doesn’t allow me to select a specific category ID—which is what I need. Any ways around this?

Thank you for your help!

I am afraid you might need a custom SQL query here. Let me move this thread to the CSS corner for you for some additional community support.

I really need this functionality.

Any pointers or code snippet for the SQL query?

Let’s bump this up! I’m looking for exact same thing, adding category=”” to Archive Month tag, but in 1.x version.
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there is a simple workaround for this issuse by using channel:entries like this:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" category="{put your category id}" }
{date_heading display="monthly"}
}
<option value="{path='channel/newsarchive/{entry_date format="%Y"}/{entry_date format="%m"}'}"{if segment_3 == {entry_date format="%Y"} AND segment_4 == {entry_date format="%m"}} selected{/if}>{entry_date format="%F %Y"}</option>
 {/date_heading}
{/exp:channel:entries}

I think this will work for u, tell me if this work.

I thought of this solution, too. I can see what you’re doing here instead of using the archive month tags. It should work. I’ll try it and let you know…

FYI, this worked out perfectly. If you’re using this in a sidebar don’t forget to disable the dynamic parameter in the exp:channel:entries tag. On the actual monthly archives page make sure to add the category tag to the main exp:channel:entries tag listing all the articles down the page. This works beautifully with multiple channels as well. I’m using it in a 1.x build so here’s the code for the sidebar using regular links instead of a drop-down menu + the monthly archives landing page.

http://pastie.org/5139715