Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.
As of April 2026, Simple Yearly Archive is a WordPress wpml plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 30 reviews. It has been downloaded 189K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 8% this week. Top alternative: WP Editor Widget.
Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple WordPress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list. It works mostly like the usual WP archive, but displays all published posts seperated by their year of publication. That said, it’s also possible to restrict the output to certain categories, and much more.
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Works perfectly and simple to use.
This plugin works perfectly, is fully customizable, and can be installed in a couple of minutes. Great work ! Bravo !
I have been using it for many years, it is especially useful when you have a long history of posts, it will make your post lists more manageable.
It is a great plugin and with great support !
A simple but very usefully plugin.
Small plugin, that I use for a yearly archive. Can be easily customized as it provides some options. E. g. make the year a h3/h4 by using the before and after fields.
| WordPress | 3.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.99 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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