[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34058: Proposal: wp_get_archives_object() function

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#34058: Proposal: wp_get_archives_object() function
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 Reporter:  davetgreen       |      Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General          |    Version:  4.3.1
 Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                   |
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 I'm currently working on building a personal site using the WP REST API,
 and one of the features I want to introduce is an equivalent to the
 archives widget on the front-end.

 Unfortunately, this isn't so straight forward given that I have no quick
 means of accessing an object representing the current archives. The
 existing function `wp_get_archives()` will return lots of lovely HTML -
 which I can use out of the box perfectly well - but this is useless given
 that I want full control of the data to manipulate/parse/sort as well as
 having something that is more suitable for output via JSON in the API.

 I propose that a new function called `wp_get_archives_object()` be added
 to give developers immediate access to the archives object for general use
 without having to get their hands dirty.

 As a compromise, perhaps add an additional parameter to
 `wp_get_archives()` that when set to `true` simply returns the object?

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