colinleroy

This plugin has no setting or UI. It just does one thing : use the php-gettext library to handle translations. This results in much faster translation than using the default PHP gettext implementation of WordPress.
If the extension is not available, the plugin will simply do nothing.
You can verify that the plugin is working by looking for an HTTP header: X-Native-Gettext: 1, that will be sent as soon as a string will be translated by the native library.
If your WordPress install is in English, this plugin has no purpose. Otherwise, it can help speed up your install quite a lot.
Requirements: 
– php-gettext 
– OS-level support for the locale(s) you want to translate to.

Native Gettext for WordPress

Great Plugin.

It does one job and it does very good!

With the help of the Query Monitor Plugin, I was able to measure a drop of almost 45% of PHP memory usage using "Native Gettext for WordPress" for a simple Dashboard-request.
Really cool.

The plugin author is answering friendly and helpful to support requests.

Fast & Friendly

No problems found, after testing on several sites. My sites are all heavily dependent on fast loading of text domains, and all have the PHP gettext extension. PHP 8.0 and 8.1.

However, may not work in combination with other WordPress plugins overriding load_textdomain.


Works as it says, fast

A very light wrapper plugin that uses the native gettext library for faster localization.

wpseek

Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple WordPress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list. It works mostly like the usual WP archive, but displays all published posts seperated by their year of publication. That said, it’s also possible to restrict the output to certain categories, and much more.
See <a href="https://www.schloebe.de/wordpress/simple-yearly-archive-plugin/#tabwidget-27592" title="Usage" rel="nofollow ugc">Usage</a> for examples, available parameters and more.
Included languages:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German (de_DE) (Thanks to me ;-))</li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) (Thanks for contributing italian language goes to <a href="https://gidibao.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Gianni Diurno</a>)</li>
<li>Russian (ru_RU) (Thanks for contributing russian language goes to <a href="https://grugl.me" rel="nofollow ugc">Dimitry German</a>)</li>
<li>Belorussian (by_BY) (Thanks for contributing belorussian language goes to <a href="https://www.fatcow.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Marcis Gasuns</a>)</li>
<li>Uzbek (uz_UZ) (Thanks for contributing uzbek language goes to <a href="https://www.comfi.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Alexandra Bolshova</a>)</li>
<li>French (fr_FR) (Thanks for contributing french language goes to <a href="https://www.li-an.fr/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Jean-Michel Meyer</a>)</li>
<li>Chinese (zh_CN) (Thanks for contributing chinese language goes to <a href="https://marianama.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Mariana Ma</a>)</li>
<li>Japanese (ja) (Thanks for contributing japanese language goes to <a href="https://staff.blog.bng.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Chestnut</a>)</li>
<li>Portuguese Brazil (pt_BR) (Thanks for contributing portuguese brazil language goes to LucasTolle)</li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) (Thanks for contributing dutch language goes to Bart Verkerk)</li>
<li>Spanish (es) (Spanish translation by <a href="https://www.ibidemgroup.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Ibidem Group</a>)</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.schloebe.de/archiv/" title="Click here for a demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here for a demo</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/wpseek" title="Developer on Twitter" rel="nofollow ugc">Developer on Twitter</a>
Looking for more WordPress plugins? Visit <a href="https://www.schloebe.de/portfolio/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.schloebe.de/portfolio/</a>

Simple Yearly Archive

Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.

Native Gettext for WordPress vs Simple Yearly Archive