Oddthinking

If your blog is over a year or two old, you may have noticed the list of archive pages is getting unwieldy.
This plugin is a widget that compresses the size of the arcgives list to two lines per year (three if the lines are narrow) rather than one line per per month.
<h3>More information</h3>
This widget is licensed under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">GPLv3</a>.
Grateful thanks to <a href="http://tech.windsofstorm.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Alan Morgan</a> whose widget_archives2 I used as a template.
Potential developers should check out the <a href="http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/03/29/more-theme-changes-2/" rel="nofollow ugc">development history</a>.
Finally, an obligatory plug for my blog, <a href="http://somethinkodd.com/oddthinking" rel="nofollow ugc">OddThinking</a>.

Compact Monthly Archive

Show a monthly archive list in a compact format - one letter per month.

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.

Compact Monthly Archive vs Simple Yearly Archive