mg12

This plugin isn’t only SEO friendly, but also provides a good user experience, you can filter achives and expand / collapse achive folder. It’s more faster after version 3.0.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Expand or collapse the monthly post archive listings.</li>
<li>Support for filtering options on AUTHOR and YEAR.</li>
<li>Caches the recent posts list, make page load faster.</li>
<li>SEO friendly.</li>
</ul>
Supported Languages:
<ul>
<li>US English/en_US (default)</li>
<li>简体中文/zh_CN (translate by <a href="http://www.neoease.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">mg12</a>)</li>
<li>Albanian/sq_AL (translate by <a href="http://www.romeolab.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Romeo Shuka</a>)</li>
<li>Belorussian/by_BY (translate by Marcis Gasuns)</li>
<li>Czech/cs_CZ (translate by <a href="http://blog.prskavec.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ladislav Prskavec</a>)</li>
<li>Dutch/nl_NL (translate by <a href="http://wpwebshop.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rene Kleine</a>)</li>
<li>Français/fr_FR (translate by <a href="http://www.li-an.fr/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jean-Michel MEYER</a>)</li>
<li>Hungarian/hu_HU (translate by János Csárdi-Braunstein)</li>
<li>Italian/it_IT (translate by <a href="http://gidibao.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gianni Diurno</a>)</li>
<li>Lithuania/lt_LT (translate by <a href="http://mantas.malcius.lt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mantas Malcius</a>)</li>
<li>Polish/pl_PL (translate by <a href="http://www.diariusz.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Artur</a>)</li>
<li>Russian/ru_RU (translate by kate)</li>
<li>Spanish/es_ES (translate by David Tejedor)</li>
<li>Türkçe/tr_TR (translate by <a href="http://ramerta.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hamdi Ömer Faruk</a>)</li>
</ul>
Demo:
<a href="http://www.neoease.com/archives/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.neoease.com/archives/</a>

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