Justin Tadlock

<p>The Clean My Archives plugin was developed because so many archives plugins were overly complicated.  I wanted something extremely simple to use that simply got the job done on my own <a href="http://justintadlock.com/archives" rel="nofollow ugc">site’s archives</a>.</p>
<p>Therefore, I created a simple <code>[clean-my-archives]</code> shortcode that you can place on any page (or any shortcode-ready area) and list your post archives by month and year.</p>
<p>This plugin also integrates with WordPress caching plugins.  So, long lists of archives can be cached for later use and loaded quickly.  If you have many years of blog posts, I highly recommend some sort of persistent caching or paginating your archives (see FAQ).</p>
<h3>Professional Support</h3>
<p>If you need professional plugin support from me, the plugin author, you can access the support forums at <a href="https://themehybrid.com/support" rel="nofollow ugc">Theme Hybrid</a>, which is a professional WordPress help/support site where I handle support for all my plugins and themes for a community of 75,000+ users (and growing).</p>
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
<p>If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s <a href="https://github.com/justintadlock/clean-my-archives" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>Yes, I do accept donations.  If you want to donate, you can do so from my <a href="https://themehybrid.com/donate" rel="nofollow ugc">donations page</a> or grab me something from my <a href="http://a.co/flUb0ns" rel="nofollow ugc">Amazon Wish List</a>.</p>
<p>I appreciate all donations, no matter the size.  Further development of this plugin is not contingent on donations, but they are always a nice incentive.</p>


Clean My Archives

This is very good plugin, very minimal and useful for displaying archive.

Minimal and useful

An easy-to-use shortcode for displaying post archives on your site.

mrwweb

Tusko Trush

jcdesign

<p>Enables an editable description to display on post type archive pages. Show the description with WordPress’s <code>the_archive_description()</code> function that also displays taxonomy term descriptions. Will work automatically with many themes, including most default WordPress themes.</p>
<p><strong>Translations:</strong> Archive descriptions are translatable via <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">Polylang</a>, <a href="https://wpml.org/?aid=255503&affiliate_key=8ZIRtAbJbX4x&dr=post-type-archive-descriptions-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML (affiliate link)</a>, and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/" rel="ugc">qTranslate-X</a>.</p>
<p><strong>The Events Calendar:</strong> The archive description is automatically added above the Events Bar when using the latest templates from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/" rel="ugc">The Events Calendar</a>. Filter the location of the description or disable it entirely with the <code>ptad_tribe_template_before_include</code> filter.</p>
<h4>Other Plugins by MRWweb</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mrw-web-design-simple-tinymce/" rel="ugc">MRW Simplified Editor</a> – Get rid of bad and obscure TinyMCE buttons. Move the rest to a single top row.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-menu-items/" rel="ugc">Post Status Menu Items</a> – Adds post status links–e.g. “Draft” (7)–to post type admin menus.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hawaiian-characters/" rel="ugc">Hawaiian Characters</a> – Adds the correct characters with diacriticals to the WordPress editor Character Map for Hawaiian</li>
</ul>


Post Type Archive Descriptions

Thanks Mark for this awesome plugin! It does exactly what it says.
Is it available on Github? I'd like to contribute.



Fantastic plugin, this should be part of the core!

Enables an editable description to display on post type archive pages. Show the description with WordPress's the_archive_description() function t …

Clean My Archives vs Post Type Archive Descriptions