Justin Tadlock

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>.
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.
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).
<h3>Professional Support</h3>
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).
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
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>.
<h3>Donations</h3>
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>.
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.

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.

wpseek

Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple WordPress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list. It works mostly like the usual WP archive, but displays all published posts seperated by their year of publication. That said, it’s also possible to restrict the output to certain categories, and much more.
See <a href="https://www.schloebe.de/wordpress/simple-yearly-archive-plugin/#tabwidget-27592" title="Usage" rel="nofollow ugc">Usage</a> for examples, available parameters and more.
Included languages:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German (de_DE) (Thanks to me ;-))</li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) (Thanks for contributing italian language goes to <a href="https://gidibao.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Gianni Diurno</a>)</li>
<li>Russian (ru_RU) (Thanks for contributing russian language goes to <a href="https://grugl.me" rel="nofollow ugc">Dimitry German</a>)</li>
<li>Belorussian (by_BY) (Thanks for contributing belorussian language goes to <a href="https://www.fatcow.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Marcis Gasuns</a>)</li>
<li>Uzbek (uz_UZ) (Thanks for contributing uzbek language goes to <a href="https://www.comfi.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Alexandra Bolshova</a>)</li>
<li>French (fr_FR) (Thanks for contributing french language goes to <a href="https://www.li-an.fr/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Jean-Michel Meyer</a>)</li>
<li>Chinese (zh_CN) (Thanks for contributing chinese language goes to <a href="https://marianama.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Mariana Ma</a>)</li>
<li>Japanese (ja) (Thanks for contributing japanese language goes to <a href="https://staff.blog.bng.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Chestnut</a>)</li>
<li>Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR) (Thanks for contributing portuguese brazil language goes to LucasTolle)</li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) (Thanks for contributing dutch language goes to Bart Verkerk)</li>
<li>Spanish (es) (Spanish translation by <a href="https://www.ibidemgroup.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ibidem Group</a>)</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.schloebe.de/archiv/" title="Click here for a demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here for a demo</a>
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Simple Yearly Archive

Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.

Clean My Archives vs Simple Yearly Archive