Andreas Norman

Norman Advanced Archive Widget is a free replacement for the standard WordPress archive widget. Norman Advanced Archive Widget has plenty of neat customization options available that the default archive widget is lacking, like the ability to group monthly archives by year and let them fold using JQuery.
<h4>Features:</h4>
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<li>Option to limit display of archive by current category. Only the posts in the current category will be listed</li>
<li>Option to group monthly archives by year </li>
<li>JQuery powered fold to show and hide monthly archives in a year.</li>
<li>Option to truncate month names or not.</li>
<li>Option to show/hide archive count and the design option to decide if you want the count to be displayed inside the link or not.</li>
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Norman Advanced Archive Widget

Norman Advanced Archive Widget is a free replacement for the standard WordPress archive widget. Lots of customization options to satisfy your needs.

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Adds a posts (or pages) list of your blog pages (or posts) by entering the shortcode [posts-list].
First example shows how to add the posts list in its simplest form. 
 [posts-list]
Example shortcode will add a pages list to a page. 
 [posts-list type=page]
Example shortcode will add a posts list to a page displaying a year 2011 and 2010. 
 [posts-list year=”2011,2010″]
Example shortcode will add a posts list to a page displaying a category id 10 and 11. 
 [posts-list category=”10,11″]
Example display ONLY the title. 
 [posts-list date_format=FALSE]

Posts List

Adds a posts (or pages) list of your blog pages (or posts) by entering the shortcode [posts-list].

Norman Advanced Archive Widget vs Posts List