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The standard Archives widget doesn't accept a lot of parameters. You can just specify

• a title,
• if you want to display posts count or not.

With the EG-Archives widget, you can choose

• the title,
• the format of the list (simple or dropdown list),
• the type: Yearly, Monthly, ...
• category, to display archives for only specific categories,
• Number of columns (1 or 2)

A specific type is added: the "mixed Yearly/monthly" type. With this type, you can display list of archives in yearly mode before a specified year, and in monthly mode after this specified date. This type allows to shorten list, and is very useful if you don't publish too many posts per year. Example:

• August 2011
• April 2011
• February 2011
• January 2011
• 2010
• 2009

Translations

The plugin comes up with 4 translations. Thanks to the following people for their contributions:

• French (FR)
• German (DE) - Frank W. Hempel
• Bulgarian (BG) - Web Geek, Dimitar Kolevski
• Russian (RU) - FatCow