echoz

The archives within WordPress are pretty limited in a sense that they do not offer much configuration beyond what they do. Date based will be date based, like category based archives will only display categories. This plugin mitigates the issue by giving date based archives the ability to list content by categories as well.
This is done via modification of the rewrite rules to allow for the ability to have permalinks like http://yourblog.com/2008/in-blog/. This basically is a date based archive that shows only entries from the “blog” category.
This plugin can also work without the usage of rewrite rules. It currently supports date based archives for years and months.
<h3>Usable Commands for Theme Developers</h3>
The PHP commands for theme developers to use are pretty straight forward.
cba_get_category_id() returns the current category ID of the archive.
cba_the_year() returns the current year of the date based archive.
cba_the_month() returns the current month of the date based archive.
cba_auto_thedate() gets the string representation of the date.
cba_get_year_link($year) returns the permalink for the year archive based on the current category.

Category Based Archives

Allows date based archives to be listed by category.

Travis Smith

Extends the Genesis Grid to a page template. More information coming soon…
IMPORTANT: 
You must have <a href="http://wpsmith.net/get-genesis" title="Learn more about Genesis" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis</a> installed. Click <a href="http://wpsmith.net/get-genesis" title="Learn more about Genesis" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a> to learn more about <a href="http://wpsmith.net/get-genesis" title="Learn more about Genesis" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis</a>
<h3>Special Thanks</h3>
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all the folks at <a href="http://wpsmith.net/go/studiopress" title="StudioPress" rel="nofollow ugc">StudioPress</a>, their <a href="http://wpsmith.net/go/spthemes" title="StudioPress Themes" rel="nofollow ugc">themes</a> make life easier.
And thanks to the various individuals who helped me through the beta testing.

Genesis Grid

This plugin will provide a page template and a GUI for using the Genesis Grid Loop.

Category Based Archives vs Genesis Grid