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>

WP-EasyArchives

Display your archive tree on custom page.

mrwweb

Tusko Trush

jcdesign

Enables an editable description to display on post type archive pages. Show the description with WordPress’s <code>the_archive_description()</code> function that also displays taxonomy term descriptions. Will work automatically with many themes, including most default WordPress themes.
Translations: Archive descriptions are translatable via <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/" rel="ugc">Polylang</a>, <a href="https://wpml.org/?aid=255503&affiliate_key=8ZIRtAbJbX4x&dr=post-type-archive-descriptions-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML (affiliate link)</a>, and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/" rel="ugc">qTranslate-X</a>.
The Events Calendar: The archive description is automatically added above the Events Bar when using the latest templates from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/" rel="ugc">The Events Calendar</a>. Filter the location of the description or disable it entirely with the <code>ptad_tribe_template_before_include</code> filter.
<h4>Other Plugins by MRWweb</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mrw-web-design-simple-tinymce/" rel="ugc">MRW Simplified Editor</a> – Get rid of bad and obscure TinyMCE buttons. Move the rest to a single top row.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-menu-items/" rel="ugc">Post Status Menu Items</a> – Adds post status links–e.g. “Draft” (7)–to post type admin menus.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hawaiian-characters/" rel="ugc">Hawaiian Characters</a> – Adds the correct characters with diacriticals to the WordPress editor Character Map for Hawaiian</li>
</ul>

Post Type Archive Descriptions

Thanks Mark for this awesome plugin! It does exactly what it says.
Is it available on Github? I'd like to contribute.



Fantastic plugin, this should be part of the core!

Enables an editable description to display on post type archive pages. Show the description with WordPress's the_archive_description() function t …

WP-EasyArchives vs Post Type Archive Descriptions