Amit Badkas

Calendar Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates yearly calendar for your posts. Create a new page (having ‘no sidebars’ template) for your calendar archive and insert the shortcode [calendar-archive] in the editor. Load this page and enjoy the view!
Each day of calendar will display first available photo from posts of that day in the background. The plugin’s layout is customizable and having two working layouts for demonstration
For more details, see http://www.sanisoft.com/blog/2009/08/21/wordpress-plugin-calendar-archives/

Calendar Archives

Calendar Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates yearly calendar for your posts.

Oddthinking

If your blog is over a year or two old, you may have noticed the list of archive pages is getting unwieldy.
This plugin is a widget that compresses the size of the arcgives list to two lines per year (three if the lines are narrow) rather than one line per per month.
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This widget is licensed under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv3</a>.
Grateful thanks to <a href="http://tech.windsofstorm.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Alan Morgan</a> whose widget_archives2 I used as a template.
Potential developers should check out the <a href="http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/03/29/more-theme-changes-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">development history</a>.
Finally, an obligatory plug for my blog, <a href="http://somethinkodd.com/oddthinking" rel="nofollow ugc">OddThinking</a>.

Compact Monthly Archive

Show a monthly archive list in a compact format - one letter per month.

Calendar Archives vs Compact Monthly Archive