Heath Harrelson

<p>This widget is designed to be a more compact alternative to the default archives widget supplied with WordPress. If you’ve been blogging regularly for several years, the archive list produced by the default widget grows to be quite long. If you use Flexo Archives instead, the list will be displayed as a much smaller list of years. When you click a year, it expands to show the months of that year when you posted. By default the expansion is animated.</p>
<p>A standalone version that simply prints the HTML for the archive lists and attaches the JavaScript to normal pages is now provided for users who cannot use the widget.</p>
<p>I am currently seeking translations of the plugin. If you would like to help by translating the plugin into your language, <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/flexo-archives-widget" rel="ugc">please post to the support forum</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks to Dylan van der Heij for providing a Dutch translation.</p>


Flexo Archives

Displays your archives as a compact list of years that expands when clicked.

Ady Romantika

<p>This simple plugin is a widget that displays a collapsible archives list in your widgetized sidebar by using JavaScripts. In version 2.0.0 script.aculo.us effects has been added as an option, utilizing the script.aculo.us files supplied with WordPress.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<ul>
<li>Widget title: the title of the widget</li>
<li>Show post counts for year: Whether or not to show the post number for each year</li>
<li>Show post counts for month: Whether or not to show the post number for each month</li>
<li>Abbreviate month names: Check this box to show abbreviation of month names</li>
<li>Hide year from month names: Do not print year after month names</li>
<li>Use script.aculo.us effects: Whether or not to show effects</li>
<li>Expand effect: Effect to use when expanding the list</li>
<li>Collapse effect: Effect to use when collapsing the list</li>
<li>Expand the list by default: Check this box to have the list expanded when loaded</li>
<li>Expand current year by default: Check this box to have the current year expanded when loaded</li>
<li>Expand current month by default: Check this box to have the current month expanded when loaded</li>
<li>Show individual posts: Show posts in the list. This should be used in extra caution; if you have a lot of posts consider disabling it as this will take time to load</li>
<li>Use HTML arrows instead of images (► ▼) </li>
<li>Show current month in bold: show current month in bold </li>
<li>Show a link to plugin page. Thank you for your support! : Display a link to plugin page as a support method</li>
</ul>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add ability for multiple instances</li>
<li>Add ability to work as non-widget</li>
<li>Add ability to include / exclude categories</li>
<li>Expand previous month rather the current</li>
<li>Research the practicality to use CSS / allow CSS options</li>
<li>List posts without year and month headers (for blogs with few posts)</li>
<li>Do not list the posts that are listed on the main page</li>
</ul>


Collapsible Archive Widget

This simple plugin is a widget that displays a collapsible archives list in your widgetized sidebar by utilizing JavaScript.

Flexo Archives vs Collapsible Archive Widget