if (‘monthly’ == $type)
Notice, dear reader, that I have located the key to controlling output of the month/year combination in the archive list. Please avail yourself of the opportunity to vouchsafe the veracity of my claim by viewing the sidebar to the right of this post to see that the archive list does, indeed, display a three-letter month name.
For the INTElab site, the new design calls for three-letter month names because of the space available, but the function wp_get_archives($args) does not offer a means to control that.
Combing through the WordPress Codex has been no help, except that it does provide a link to the source document at the bottom of template instructions. The source document for wp_get_archives() is general-template.php, stored in the wp-includes folder in the wp root directory.
Looking through general-template.php, I found the conditional statement that opens with if( ‘monthly’ == $type) and sleuthed out these lines:
/* translators: 1: month name, 2: 4-digit year */
$text = sprintf(__(‘%1$s %2$d’), $wp_locale->get_month($arcresult->month), $arcresult->year);
Then, entered the phrase “$text = sprintf(__(‘%1$s %2$d’), $wp_locale->get_month($arcresult->month)” into a search engine, and _bing!_bang!_bong!, up came the site of Allison House, a discerning web designer from sunny Florida USA, who had run into the same problem, had solved it, and had graciously posted her solution.
Thank you, Allison!
(View her site)
Unfortunately, I am unable to apply this command to the INTElab site as I do not have access to the root directory. Time for another note to myself….
NOTE: Ask Matt to make this change to the general template.
NOTE: Mark this change in the User Guide, as upgrading WordPress will overwrite that document and reset the default.
As I am waiting for the TypeKit fonts to kick in before spending lots of time doing any fine-tuning of the site, I will, for the rest of this day, turn my attention to writing the User Guide.