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.

Miguel Useche

This plugin provides a widget and a filter to display a collapsible archive list in your sidebar or posts using the JS JS library.
<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 [JsArchiveList]</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.

Retrospective vs JS Archive List