Expanding Archives

Very useful, lightweight plugin, will go in every theme and is easily customizeable with a bit of CSS

Easy to use and customize.

It looks nice if you only have a few posts per month, but I wish you had the option to choose whether the month will appear expanded or collapsed as a default. If you do a post per day, opening the page with the month expanded is way too long and makes the sidebar look cluttered. Bullets before each post would also make it look cleaner.

Took a punt, as no demo offered (yr blog has no sidebar, AFAIK), and works nicely. Element classes assist styling.

… but I need the italian version of names so … quick and dirty …

i did these changes to widget-expanding-archives.php

added line (after original line 47)

// aggiunta nomi in italiano
$stato = setlocale (LC_TIME, “it_IT”, “IT”,”it”);

and replaced line 80 in this way

<?php echo ( $month->year == $date_current_year && date( “m”, mktime( 0, 0, 0, $month->month, 1, $month->year ) ) == $date_current_month ) ? ‘–’ : ‘+’; ?></span> <?php echo strftime( “%B”, mktime( 0, 0, 0, $month->month, 1, $month->year ) ) ?>
<!– <?php echo ( $month->year == $date_current_year && date( “m”, mktime( 0, 0, 0, $month->month, 1, $month->year ) ) == $date_current_month ) ? ‘–’ : ‘+’; ?></span> <?php echo date( “F”, mktime( 0, 0, 0, $month->month, 1, $month->year ) ) ?> –>

now month names are in Italian … shoud work for any language by setting correte strings at line 49