Alex Mills

Clean Archives Reloaded generates a list of all of your posts, sorted by month. It’s enhanced with Javascript to allow collapsing and expanding of months.
It’s highly efficient and won’t kill your server with tons of MySQL queries.
<h4>Demo</h4>
Check out one of my sites’ <a href="http://www.finalgear.com/post-archives/" rel="nofollow ugc">archive page</a>.
<h3>Shortcode Tag Parameters</h3>
You can customize the list options on a per-call basis if you wish.
<ul>
<li><code>usejs</code> — (<code>1</code> or <code>0</code>) use Javascript or not to collapse the months</li>
<li><code>monthorder</code> — (<code>new</code> or <code>old</code>) show newest months or oldest months first</li>
<li><code>postorder</code> — (<code>new</code> or <code>old</code>) show newest posts or oldest posts first within months</li>
</ul>
<h4>Examples</h4>
No Javascript:
<pre><code>[cleanarchivesreloaded usejs="0"]
</code></pre>
Oldest months first, oldest posts first:
<pre><code>[cleanarchivesreloaded monthorder="old" postorder="old"]
</code></pre>

Clean Archives Reloaded

A slick, Javascript enhanced post archive list generator.

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Smart Archives Reloaded allows you to display a list of posts grouped by year and month. It also provides several interesting navigation elements.
Format list:
<ul>
<li>list = a list of posts grouped by month</li>
<li>block = a compact block of links to year and date archive pages</li>
<li>menu = a two-level menu with links to year and date archive pages</li>
<li>both = block + list (<a href="http://scribu.net/archive" rel="nofollow ugc">example</a>)</li>
<li>fancy = menu + list + JavaScript (<a href="http://www.conceptfusion.co.nz/archive" rel="nofollow ugc">example</a>)</li>
</ul>
No support
I do not offer support for this plugin, either free or paid.
Credits:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://justinblanton.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Justin Blanton</a>, for the original <a href="http://justinblanton.com/projects/smartarchives/" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart Archives</a> plugin</li>
<li><a href="http://www.conceptfusion.co.nz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simon Pritchard</a>, for the fancy format</li>
</ul>
Links: <a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/smart-archives-reloaded" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin News</a> | <a href="http://scribu.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s Site</a>

Smart Archives Reloaded

Easily display posts grouped by year and month, in one or more elegant formats

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