A slick, Javascript enhanced post archive list generator.
As of April 2026, Clean Archives Reloaded is a WordPress posts plugin with 600 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 104K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….
Clean Archives Reloaded generates a list of all of your posts, sorted by month. It’s enhanced with Javascript to allow collapsing and expanding of months.
It’s highly efficient and won’t kill your server with tons of MySQL queries.
Check out one of my sites’ archive page.
You can customize the list options on a per-call basis if you wish.
usejs — (1 or 0) use Javascript or not to collapse the monthsmonthorder — (new or old) show newest months or oldest months firstpostorder — (new or old) show newest posts or oldest posts first within monthsNo Javascript:
[cleanarchivesreloaded usejs="0"]
Oldest months first, oldest posts first:
[cleanarchivesreloaded monthorder="old" postorder="old"]
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
June 29th, 2011 (No Version Bump)
March 31st, 2011 (No Version Bump)
Version 3.2.0
get_posts() to fetch just the data we need. I had wrongly been thinking doing this was going to be a lot more complicated to accomplish. This …Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.