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.

littlejon

<p>LJ Multi Column Archive is a WordPress plugin/widget that allows you to display your archive list with multiple columns.</p>
<p>I developed this plugin as I wanted to make use of the space I had in the sidebar more effectively, while still keeping the links to all the archives available.</p>
<p>Depending on how old you blog is you can set the Archives to display either a list of Months with Posts, a list of Years with Posts, or a list of Days with posts.</p>
<p>Archive links can be shown with or without post counts.</p>


LJ Multi Column Archive

LJ Multi Column Archive is a Wordpress plugin/widget that allows you to display your archive list with multiple columns.

EG-Archives vs LJ Multi Column Archive