Tiago Madeira

The website of the brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo has a nice way to 
display news in a retrospective-style (check <a href="http://blog.tiagomadeira.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/estadao.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc">this 
screenshot</a> 
or <a href="http://www.estadao.com.br/especiais/choque-nas-ruas,158638.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">this link</a> 
— Flash required).
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could display WordPress posts in our pages and 
categories in the same way just by using a shortcode? The possibilities are 
many. That’s why I wrote the Retrospective plugin for WordPress.
It has at least two advantages over the version you just saw:
<ul>
<li>Does not require Flash (its implementation uses only CSS and jQuery)</li>
<li>Has a option to respect the (time-)scale of the posts.</li>
</ul>
See Installation for more info on how to use it.

Retrospective

Retrospective plugin displays last posts or posts from a specific category in a nice-looking "retrospective" way using a shortcode.

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Baden

Annual Archive plugin improves on the default WordPress archive shortcode and sidebar widget. Archives can be listed daily, weekly, monthly or annually. Lists can be grouped by decade and filtered by post type. Archive lists can be placed nearly anywhere using the included shortcode or the easy to use sidebar widget. A <a href='https://pluginoven.com/plugins/annual-archive/documentation/' rel="nofollow ugc">complete listing of shortcode options and attribute demos</a> are available, as well as <a href='https://wordpress.org/tags/anual-archive' rel="ugc">free community support</a>. Translate Annual Archive into any language using the WordPress community translation tool at: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/anual-archive

Annual Archive

Display daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, decade, postbypost and alpha archives with a simple shortcode or sidebar widget.

Retrospective vs Annual Archive