Compact Archives vs Sitekit

The built-in WordPress archives widget is great for new blogs, but it doesn’t look as good for more established blogs like WPBeginner. Compact Archives displays the monthly archive of posts in a more compact form rather than the usual long list. It can be shown as a compact block suitable for the body of an archives page: 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec or in an even more compact form to fit a sidebar: 2009: J F M A M J J A S O N D 2008: J F M A M J J A S O N D 2007: J F M A M J J A S O N D or something in between: 2009: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 2008: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 2007: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Compact Archive plugin works seamlessly with Gutenberg Block Editor, Classic Editor, and WordPress widgets. What’s Next If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects: OptinMonster – Get More Email Subscribers with the most popular conversion optimization plugin for WordPress. WPForms – Best Drag & Drop WordPress Form plugin (over 1 million active installs). MonsterInsights – See the Stats that Matter and Grow Your Business with Confidence. Best Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress. SeedProd – Jumpstart your website with the #1 Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Plugin for WordPress. WP Mail SMTP – Improve email deliverability for your contact form with the most popular SMTP plugin for WordPress. Visit WPBeginner to learn from our WordPress Tutorials and find out about other best WordPress plugins. Like all plugins, Compact Archives is only available for self-hosted WordPress sites. So YES you need to switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org in order to use this plugin on your WordPress site. For more details, see the infographic on Self hosted WordPress.org vs Free WordPress.com If you like this plugin, then please leave a good rating. For support just ask the questions here in the support forum. Credits This plugin was originally created by Rob Marsh and Aldolat added a widget for it. WPBeginner adopted the plugin and took the responsibility of keeping it updated.

Sitekit Donate GitHub Settings: Google Analytics code Show/hide google analytics code if user is logged in Head code Footer code Widgets: Archives Categories Pages Search Shortcodes: [sitekit_posts] [sitekit_archives] [sitekit_categories] [sitekit_bloginfo] [sitekit_iframe] Parameters for [sitekit_posts]: post_type – show posts associated with certain type: [sitekit_posts post_type="page"]; by default posts are shown: [sitekit_posts post_type="post"]; Possible params: post | page | revision | attachment | nav_menu_item | any | your_custom_post_type orderby – the column to use for ordering posts list: [sitekit_posts orderby="id"]; by default list is sorted by date: [sitekit_posts orderby="date"]; Possible params: modified | title | name | ID | rand order – how to sort posts list: [sitekit_posts order="DESC"]; by default list is sorted by ascending order (A-Z): [sitekit_posts order="ASC"]; posts_per_page – how many posts to show in the list: [sitekit_posts posts_per_page="50"]; by default: [sitekit_posts posts_per_page="100"]; [sitekit_posts] is based on WP_Query class. Parameters for [sitekit_archives]: [sitekit_archives] – list of monthly archives links sorted by date; [sitekit_archives type="yearly"] – list of yearly archives links; [sitekit_archives type="monthly"] – list of monthly archives links; [sitekit_archives type="weekly"] – list of weekly archives links; [sitekit_archives type="daily"] – list of daily archives links; [sitekit_archives type="postbypost"] – list of all posts links sorted by date; [sitekit_archives type="alpha"] – list of all posts links sorted by title; limit – how many links to be included in the list: [sitekit_archives limit="10"]; by default all links are shown: [sitekit_archives limit=""]; format – format for the archive: [sitekit_archives format="option"] – show as a dropdown; by default unordered list is shown: [sitekit_archives format="html"]; show_post_count – display counter of posts in the archive: [sitekit_archives show_post_count="1"]; by default counter is not shown: [sitekit_archives show_post_count="0"]; order – how to sort archives links: [sitekit_archives order="ASC"]; by default links are sorted by descending order (Z-A): [sitekit_archives order="DESC"]; [sitekit_archives] is based on wp_get_archives function. Parameters for [sitekit_categories]: orderby – the column to use for ordering categories list: [sitekit_categories orderby="id"]; by default list is sorted by title: [sitekit_categories orderby="name"]; order – how to sort categories list: [sitekit_categories order="DESC"]; by default list is sorted by ascending order (A-Z): [sitekit_categories order="ASC"]; show_count – display counter of posts in the categories list: [sitekit_categories show_count="1"]; by default counter is not shown: [sitekit_categories show_count="0"]; hide_empty – the column to use for ordering categories list: [sitekit_categories hide_empty="0"]; by default empty categories are hidden: [sitekit_categories hide_empty="1"]; hierarchical – show tree-like categories list: [sitekit_categories hierarchical="0"]; by default the list is hierarchical: [sitekit_categories hierarchical="1"]; depth – how many levels to include in categories list: [sitekit_categories depth="5"]; by default depth is unlimited: [sitekit_categories depth="0"]; taxonomy – which taxonomy to show in the list: [sitekit_categories taxonomy="post_tag"]; by default categories are shown: [sitekit_categories taxonomy="category"]; child_of – term ID to retrieve child terms of: [sitekit_categories child_of="77"]; by default all categories are shown: [sitekit_categories child_of="0"]; exclude – comma/space-separated string of term IDs to exclude: [sitekit_categories exclude="77"]; by default all categories are shown: [sitekit_categories exclude=""]; exclude_tree – comma/space-separated string of term IDs to exclude, along with their descendants: [sitekit_categories exclude_tree="77"]; by default all categories are shown: [sitekit_categories exclude_tree=""]; [sitekit_categories] is based on wp_list_categories function. Parameters for [sitekit_bloginfo]: [sitekit_bloginfo show="name"] – sitekit_bloginfo params; [sitekit_bloginfo] is based on bloginfo function. Parameters for [sitekit_iframe]: src – source of the iframe: [sitekit_iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4qsGTXLnmKs"]; by default src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/4qsGTXLnmKs”; width – width in pixels or in percents: [sitekit_iframe width="100%"] or [sitekit_iframe width="600"]; by default width=”100%”; height – height in pixels: [sitekit_iframe height="500"]; by default height=”500″; scrolling – with or without the scrollbar: [sitekit_iframe scrolling="no"]; by default scrolling=”yes”; frameborder – with or without the frame border: [sitekit_iframe frameborder="0"]; by default frameborder=”0″; marginheight – height of the margin: [sitekit_iframe marginheight="0"]; removed by default; marginwidth – width of the margin: [sitekit_iframe marginwidth="0"]; removed by default; allowtransparency – allows to set transparency of the iframe: [sitekit_iframe allowtransparency="true"]; removed by default; id – allows to add the id of the iframe: [sitekit_iframe id="custom_id"]; removed by default; class – allows to add the class of the iframe: [sitekit_iframe class="custom_class"]; by default class=”iframe-class”; style – allows to add the css styles of the iframe: [sitekit_iframe style="margin-left:-30px;"]; removed by default; any_other_param – allows to add new parameter of the iframe [sitekit_iframe any_other_param="any_value"]; any_other_empty_param – allows to add new empty parameter of the iframe (like “allowfullscreen” on youtube) [sitekit_iframe any_other_empty_param=""]; Parameters for [sitekit_menu]: The [sitekit_menu] shortcode allows you to display a custom menu. It supports all the parameters of the WordPress wp_nav_menu() function. menu – The menu that should be displayed. Accepts (matching in order) id, slug, name. Default: empty. Example: [sitekit_menu menu="main-menu"] container – Whether to wrap the ul, and what to wrap it with. Default ‘div’. Example without a container: [sitekit_menu menu="main-menu" container=""] container_class – The class that is applied to the container. Default ‘menu-{menu slug}-container’. Example: [sitekit_menu menu="main-menu" container_class="custom-container"] container_id – The ID that is applied to the container. Default empty. menu_class – CSS class to use for the ul element which forms the menu. Default ‘menu’. Example: [sitekit_menu menu="main-menu" menu_class="custom-menu"] menu_id – The ID that is applied to the ul element. Default empty. echo – Whether to echo the menu or return it. Default false. fallback_cb – If the menu doesn’t exist, a callback function will fire. Default ‘wp_page_menu’. before – Text before the link markup. Default empty. after – Text after the link markup. Default empty. link_before – Text before the link text. Default empty. link_after – Text after the link text. Default empty. items_wrap – How the list items should be wrapped. Default %3$s . depth – How many levels of the hierarchy are to be included. 0 means all. Default 0. Example: [sitekit_menu menu="primary-menu" depth="2"] walker – Custom walker object to use. Default empty.