Miguel Useche

<p>This plugin provides a widget and a filter to display a collapsible archive list in your sidebar or posts using the JS JS library.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ol>
<li>Support for Gutenberg blocks. Add it to any FSE theme or Gutenberg compatible theme.</li>
<li>Display a collapsed list of your archives to reduce space.</li>
<li>Uses vanilla JS to add effects and to be compatible with all browsers.</li>
<li>Select your expand/collapse symbol and date format.</li>
<li>Support for archive filters.</li>
<li>Auto expands current/select year from posts.</li>
<li>Select the categories to exclude</li>
<li>Multiple instances support.</li>
<li>Shortcode support  <em>[JsArchiveList]</em></li>
<li>Generates valid HTML code.</li>
<li>Supports multiple languages.</li>
<li>Compatible with most JS cache and minify plugins.</li>
<li>And more to come…</li>
</ol>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<ul>
<li>Title: title of the widget.</li>
<li>Trigger Symbol:  characters to be displayed as bullet.</li>
<li>Effect: Effect to use.</li>
<li>Month Format:  month’s display format of the month.</li>
<li>Expand: when to expand the content of the list.</li>
<li>Hide years from before: older years will be hidden under a  link. To save space in the page on old sites.</li>
<li>Show days inside month list: group posts by day.</li>
<li>Show number of posts: display how many post are published in the year or in the month.</li>
<li>Show only posts from selected category: show only posts from the selected category when visiting a category page.</li>
<li>Only expand/reduce by clicking the symbol: select if animations start when click the link or just the bullet.</li>
<li>Only expand one at the same time: select if you want to have only one expanded at the same time.</li>
<li>Show posts under months:  show post’s title under months.</li>
<li>Show post date next to post title: show post’s date next to post title.</li>
<li>Sort posts by: select how to sort the posts under months.</li>
<li>Include or Exclude categories: Select the categories to include or exclude.</li>
</ul>


JS Archive List

Useful

A JS widget (can be used in posts) for displaying an archive list with some effects.

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.

JS Archive List vs Collapsible Archive Widget