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.

mimo

This plugin adds a widget to your WordPress site called Wp Loop, publish this widget wherever needed and set its options, it creates a WordPress Query Loop that has Grid Layout(Isotope) and can be filtered with ajax(Isotope Filtering), it can display any CPT and has a bunch of design options and loop customizations:
<ul>
<li>-Title: Title of the widget</li>
<li>-Categories to show, use slugs separated by commas: Which categories to include in the loop, they can be custom post types categories</li>
<li>-Categories to hide, use ids separated by commas: The categories to hide, here you need to use id’s</li>
<li>-Filter taxonomyIf you need to filter the loop(ajax filter), write here wchich term you need to filter.</li>
<li>-Offset, number: Write the number for offset in the loop, this means the number of post you need to jump from beginning.</li>
<li>-Number of posts to show: Posts per page</li>
<li>-Image Size to use: This will list all available image sizes in theme, so choose which you prefer</li>
<li>-Post Type to use: This field will list all available post types in theme for you to choose one</li>
<li>-Order: Order of loop</li>
<li>-Order by: Order by</li>
<li>-Columns to use: You can set here until 20 columns</li>
<li>-Title Words, number: How many words to show in title of posts</li>
<li>-Excerpt Words, number: How many words to show in excerpt of posts</li>
<li>-Infinite Scroll: Choose to No, Button or Auto(the infinite scroll triggers when you scroll down the page)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage instructions</h3>
Just publish the widget wherever needed. It works great with Site Origin Panels plugin to create full layouts.
<h3>Developer instructions</h3>
Apart from the options inside widget you can manipulate the before/after loop and articles content with this actions:
do_action(‘wploop_before_content’); // The beginnning of content inside each article 
do_action(‘wploop_after_content’); // The end of content inside each article 
do_action(‘wploop_before_loop’); // Out of the loop 
do_action(‘wploop_after_loop’); // Out of the loop
Find plugin and issues solved at http://mimo.studio

Wp Loop

Creates a Widget to display a Masonry, Infinite scroll, filterable loop of posts or whatever custom post type you have. Includes 1-20 columns layout.

Category Based Archives vs Wp Loop