Aaron Brazell

Users can designate a specific keyword that will be used in providing featured content. If you have ever seen a breaking news alert on, say, CNN.com, then you can possibly see the value of keyword based “content floating”. Need everything tagged ‘Mumbai’ to show up as ‘featured’? What about ‘Red Sox’ around World Series time? This will take some of the hand-rolling currently necessary out of designating featured articles.
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This plugin was created by Aaron Brazell of <a href="http://technosailor.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Technosailor.com</a>. I will often write about WordPress as well as other interesting things in the business, technology and entrepreneurship world. You should subscribe.

WP-SmartFeatures

Provides user-designated keyword info to determine featured articles.

Justin Watt

Xavi Ivars

Display monthly archives by year with links to each month in the following compact format:
<pre><code>2012
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

2011
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

2010
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
</code></pre>
Serves as a drop in replacement for <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_archives" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>wp_get_archives( array( 'type' => 'monthly' ) );</code></a>.
If you’re interested in contributing to the code behind this plugin, it’s also hosted on GitHub: 
https://github.com/justincwatt/wp-monthchunks

Monthchunks

Concisely display monthly archives by year with links to each month.

WP-SmartFeatures vs Monthchunks