emmanuelg

<p>The standard Archives widget doesn’t accept a lot of parameters. You can just specify</p>
<ul>
<li>a title, </li>
<li>if you want to display posts count or not.</li>
</ul>
<p>With the <strong>EG-Archives</strong> widget, you can choose</p>
<ul>
<li>the title,</li>
<li>the format of the list (simple or dropdown list),</li>
<li>the type: Yearly, Monthly, … </li>
<li>category, to display archives for only specific categories,</li>
<li>Number of columns (1 or 2)</li>
</ul>
<p>A specific type is added: the “mixed Yearly/monthly” type.<br />
With this type, you can display list of archives in yearly mode before a specified year, and in monthly mode after this specified date. This type allows to shorten list, and is very useful if you don’t publish too many posts per year. Example:</p>
<ul>
<li>August 2011</li>
<li>April 2011</li>
<li>February 2011</li>
<li>January 2011</li>
<li>2010</li>
<li>2009</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>The plugin comes up with 4 translations. Thanks to the following people for their contributions:</p>
<ul>
<li>French (FR)</li>
<li>German (DE) – <a href="http://www.frank-hempel.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Frank W. Hempel</a></li>
<li>Bulgarian (BG) – <a href="http://webhostinggeeks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Geek, Dimitar Kolevski</a></li>
<li>Russian (RU) – FatCow</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p><strong>EG-Archives</strong> adds a widget, and a template tag.</p>
<h4>Widget</h4>
<ul>
<li>Go to the <strong>Appearence / Widgets</strong> menu, </li>
<li>Active the widget named: EG-Archives,</li>
<li>Configure it, through the widget menu.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Template tag</h4>
<p>You can display the archives list, anywhere in your templates, with the function: <code><?php eg_get_archives('arguments'); ?></code><br />
Arguments are the same than the standard WordPress function <code>wp_get_archives</code>.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>type</strong> (string) The type of archive list to display. Valid values: yearly, monthly, daily, weekly, postbypost. Default is monthly,</li>
<li><strong>limit</strong> (integer) Number of archives to get. Default is no limit,</li>
<li><strong>format</strong> (string) Format for the archive list. Valid values:
<ul>
<li>html – In HTML list (</li>
<li>) tags and before and after strings. This is the default,</li>
<li>option – In select () or dropdown option () tags,</li>
<li>link – Within link () tags,</li>
<li>custom – Custom list using the before and after strings. </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>before</strong> (string) Text to place before the link when using the html or custom for format option. There is no default,</li>
<li><strong>after</strong> (string) Text to place after the link when using the html or custom for format option. There is no default, </li>
<li><strong>show_post_count</strong> (boolean) Display number of posts in an archive (1 – true) or do not (0 – false). For use with all type except ‘postbypost’. Defaults to 0,</li>
<li>
<p><strong>echo</strong> (boolean) Display the output (1 – true) or return it (0 – false). Defaults to 1.</p>
<p>eg_get_archives accept an additional arguments:</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>pivot</strong> (integer) The “pivot” year. Before the pivot, archives are listed i yearly mode, after archives are listed in monthly mode. Default: current year (currently 2009)</p>
</li>
<li><strong>columns</strong> (integer) Number of columns to display list. Possible values are 1 or 2. Default is 1.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Licence</h3>
<p>This plugin is released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>The plugin comes with French and English translations, please refer to the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language" title="Installing WordPress in Your Language" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Codex</a> for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the eg_series.pot file which contains all defintions and may be used with a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/" rel="nofollow ugc">gettext</a> editor like <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Poedit</a> (Windows).</p>


EG-Archives

EG-Archives provides a widget (and a template tag) to display archives in yearly mode, AND monthly, according a specified pivot date.

peterwsterling

<p>A plugin to add a sidebar widget that presents a list of posts from “this Day/Week/Month” last year.</p>
<p>A feature of the sidebar that I like is the ability to “bring back” posts from the past. That is, the blog chronology constantly pushes great content into the archives. This sidebar widget, Last Year, brings posts from this day, week or month last year back to the fore!</p>


Last Year Widget

A plugin to add a sidebar widget that presents a list of posts from "this Day/Week/Month" last year.

EG-Archives vs Last Year Widget