samsonw

Grid Archives offers a grid style archives page for WordPress, just put “[grid_archives]” in your Post or Page to show the grid-style archives.
The default config will display all posts in every categories. To display posts under one specific category, input [grid_archives category=”Category name”] instead.
View <a href="http://blog.samsonis.me/archives" rel="nofollow ugc">live demo</a>
For latest update, please check github repository: 
http://github.com/samsonw/wp-grid-archives

Grid Archives

Grid Archives offers a grid style archives page for WordPress.

sarah semark

Nix Prefix is a super-simple WordPress plugin to remove or customise the prefix text on your archive pages. Go from:
<blockquote>
Category: Puppies and Kittens
</blockquote>
to
<blockquote>
Puppies and Kittens
</blockquote>
on your archive pages—no child themes required!
For a better visual of what this does, have a look at the screenshots tab.
<h4>Need help?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Full documentation: http://sarahmonster.github.io/nix-prefix/</li>
<li>Github repo: https://github.com/sarahmonster/nix-prefix</li>
<li>Ask me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahsemark</li>
</ul>

Nix Prefix

A super-simple plugin to remove the "Category:" prefix text on archive page titles.

Grid Archives vs Nix Prefix