WordPress has some good plugins, but I couldn’t find a simple one which lists all categories and then underneath each lists the posts within. (I did actually find one good one, but it didn’t display properly)

After a few hours of back and forth with plugins I decided to create my own “Archive By Category.” Again, with WordPress’s large community, I found someone had posted how to create one.

How to create a simple Category Listing / Archive in WordPress.

Following this information was easy but the only thing I would do to make it simpler is not to bother with install MySQL admin or dealing with querying the database. In order to find a categories id, all you need to do is go into the WordPress admin and underneath Posts go to the Categories page.

While on that page highlight each category link (but do not click) and in the web browser’s status bar you’ll see a URL and in it will be a catId=xx in the query string. That is the category id you need to use in the cut and paste code for your listings.