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Smart Archives Reloaded allows you to display a list of posts grouped by year and month. It also provides several interesting navigation elements.
Format list:
<ul>
<li>list = a list of posts grouped by month</li>
<li>block = a compact block of links to year and date archive pages</li>
<li>menu = a two-level menu with links to year and date archive pages</li>
<li>both = block + list (<a href="http://scribu.net/archive" rel="nofollow ugc">example</a>)</li>
<li>fancy = menu + list + JavaScript (<a href="http://www.conceptfusion.co.nz/archive" rel="nofollow ugc">example</a>)</li>
</ul>
No support
I do not offer support for this plugin, either free or paid.
Credits:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://justinblanton.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Justin Blanton</a>, for the original <a href="http://justinblanton.com/projects/smartarchives/" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart Archives</a> plugin</li>
<li><a href="http://www.conceptfusion.co.nz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Simon Pritchard</a>, for the fancy format</li>
</ul>
Links: <a href="http://scribu.net/wordpress/smart-archives-reloaded" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin News</a> | <a href="http://scribu.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s Site</a>

Smart Archives Reloaded

Easily display posts grouped by year and month, in one or more elegant formats

Automattic

Gary Jones

Mohammad Jangda

Josh Betz

nickdaugherty

Jeff Bowen

Bradford Campeau-Laurion

WordPress VIP

pkevan

This plugin is designed to help you curate your content. It lets you assign and order stories within zones that you create, edit, and delete, and display those groupings of related stories on your site.
This plugin was originally built by <a href="http://digitalize.ca" rel="nofollow ugc">Mohammad Jangda</a> in conjunction with <a href="http://wpdavis.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">William Davis</a> and the <a href="http://www.bangordailynews.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Bangor Daily News</a>.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add, edit, and delete zones.</li>
<li>Add and remove posts (or any custom post type) to or from zones.</li>
<li>Order posts in any given zone.</li>
<li>Limit capabilities on who can add, edit, and delete zones vs add content to zones.</li>
<li>Locking mechanism, so only one user can edit a zone at a time (to avoid conflicts).</li>
<li>Idle control, so people can’t keep the zone locked.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Function Reference</h3>
Get an array of all zones:
<pre><code>z_get_zones()
</code></pre>
Get a single zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_zone( $zone )
</code></pre>
Get an array of ordered posts in a given zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_posts_in_zone( $zone )
</code></pre>
Get a WP_Query object for a given zone, accepts either ID or slug:
<pre><code>z_get_zone_query( $zone );
</code></pre>
More functions listed in <code>functions.php</code>.

Zone Manager (Zoninator)

Content curation made easy! Create "zones" then add and order your content!

Smart Archives Reloaded vs Zone Manager (Zoninator)