JS Archive List vs WP-UTF8-Excerpt

This plugin provides a widget and a filter to display a collapsible archive list in your sidebar or posts using the JS JS library. Features Support for Gutenberg blocks. Add it to any FSE theme or Gutenberg compatible theme. Display a collapsed list of your archives to reduce space. Uses vanilla JS to add effects and to be compatible with all browsers. Select your expand/collapse symbol and date format. Support for archive filters. Auto expands current/select year from posts. Select the categories to exclude Multiple instances support. Shortcode support [JsArchiveList] Generates valid HTML code. Supports multiple languages. Compatible with most JS cache and minify plugins. And more to come… Configuration Title: title of the widget. Trigger Symbol: characters to be displayed as bullet. Effect: Effect to use. Month Format: month’s display format of the month. Expand: when to expand the content of the list. Hide years from before: older years will be hidden under a link. To save space in the page on old sites. Show days inside month list: group posts by day. Show number of posts: display how many post are published in the year or in the month. Show only posts from selected category: show only posts from the selected category when visiting a category page. Only expand/reduce by clicking the symbol: select if animations start when click the link or just the bullet. Open links in a new tab: opens archive and post links in a new browser tab/window. Only expand one at the same time: select if you want to have only one expanded at the same time. Show posts under months: show post’s title under months. Show post date next to post title: show post’s date next to post title. Sort posts by: select how to sort the posts under months. Include or Exclude categories: Select the categories to include or exclude.

Main features of the plugin: It supports multi-byte language (such as Chinese). It will not produce gibberish as some other excerpt plugins do. The html tags in the original posts, i.e., the font styles, colors, hyperlinks, pictures and such are preserved in the excerpt. For better readability, it displays 300 characters for each post on the homepage and 150 characters for each post on archive pages.