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Simple Yearly Archive

v2.2.3
by wpseek · 4.7 (30 reviews)

Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.

7K+ active installs Updated Jan 01, 2025 Tested to 6.7.99
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About Simple Yearly Archive

Simple Yearly Archive is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list. You can customize the output by restricting it to certain categories and more. The plugin supports multiple languages and there is a demo available for you to see how it works.

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Changelog

2.2.3

  • WordPress 6.7 compatibility

2.2.2

  • Revert type hinting to support older versions of PHP

2.2.1

  • Revert PHP8 requirement

2.2.0

  • Code improvements

2.1.9

  • Fixed Admin+ Stored XSS vulnerability

2.1.8

  • Added filters sya_yearanchor and sya_postlink

2.1.7

  • Even more improved excerpt generation ?

2.1.6

  • Improved excerpt generation
  • WordPress 5.9 compatibility

2.1.5

  • Added several HTML classes to the plugin output HTML to be targeted with CSS

2.1.2

  • WordPress 5.3 compatibility

2.1.1

  • Minor bugfix for the the_title filter

2.1.0

  • Added the filters sya_categories and sya_tags
  • Minor fixes

2.0.2

  • WordPress 4.8 compatibility

2.0.1

  • Removed printing out the module name and version as a HTML comment

2.0.0

  • Added filter sya_get_posts so you can query for literally anything using WP_Query parameters! See examples here

1.9.0

  • Added option to show tags after each post
  • Localizations updated

1.8.3

  • Settings page optimizations
  • Localizations updated
  • Bug fixes

1.8.2

  • WordPress 4.7 compatibility
  • PHP 7 compatibility

1.8.1

  • Fixed an issue with (post type) attachment not being listed
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Code cleanup

1.8.0

  • Added the possibility to include more than one custom post type

1.7.5

  • Polylang support

1.7.4

  • Added a filter sya_the_authors so you can filter the post’s authors listing before output (e.g. support for the Co-Authors Plus plugin)
  • Minor bug fixes

1.7.3

  • Added a filter sya_the_title so you can filter the post’s title before output
  • Minor bug fixes

1.7.2

  • IMPORTANT: Date format changed to reflect localized date strings. Please review and update your date string in the plugin’s settings!
  • Code cleanup
  • Localizations updated

1.7.1.2

  • Permission error fix (thanks outtareach!)
  • Code cleanup
  • Localizations updated

1.7.1.1

  • Code cleanup

1.7.1

  • Post thumbnails support!
  • Code cleanup and bugfixing

1.7.0.2

  • Fixed an issue with the plugin’s textdomain not loading

1.7.0.1

  • Added legacy direct PHP invocation again: <?php simpleYearlyArchive(); ?> (sorry!)
  • Fixed an issue where the anchored years weren’t displayed

1.7.0

  • Code rewrite (please let me know if you experience something is broken)
  • You can now specify a custom time period for a period like [SimpleYearlyArchive type="1249077600-1280527200"] where start and end point are UNIX timestamps
  • Increased performance

1.6.2.5

  • Added a CSS class post id to the post links so people can do more custom things with CSS or javascript

1.6.2.2

  • Hide comments count for posts with comments closed

1.6.2.1

  • Fixed a bug that did not reverse post order if “Reverse order” was selected

1.6.2

  • Improved WPML support

1.6.1

  • Initial WPML support (thanks to Emilie from bornbilingue.com for the help!)

1.6.0

  • Support for post types

1.5.0

  • Significant changes that result in a lot less memory consumption on blogs with 1000+ posts
  • Code cleanup

1.4.3.3

  • Fixed another PHP notice. Didn’t have enough coffee.

1.4.3.2

  • Fixed a PHP notice when using exclude/include parameter (thanks Lea!)

1.4.3.1

  • Fixed an issue that caused to load unsecure resources on SSL enabled sites

1.4.3

  • Fixed a bug that caused listing “auto draft” posts

1.4.2

  • Fixed a bug with the anchored years overview at the top

1.4.1

  • Added a date wrapper span so you can hide the date via CSS

1.4

  • New option “Collapsible years?” added

1.3.3

  • Readme.txt updated to be more compliant with the readme.txt standard
  • Moved screenshots off the package to the assets/ folder

1.3.2

  • Maintenance update #2 ( Dominik ? )

1.3.1

  • Maintenance update

1.3.0

  • Option to reverse the order of the year/posts list output

1.2.9

  • Maintenance update

1.2.8

  • A few fixes that resulted from the previous versions

1.2.7

  • Character encoding for new date format string fixed
  • Fixed a bug that occured when “Anchored overview at the top” was checked while “Linked years” was unchecked (Thanks Kroom!)
  • Added an admin notice when someone didn’t already switch to the new date format string

1.2.6

  • IMPORTANT: Date format changed to reflect localized date strings. Please update your date string in the plugin’s settings!

1.2.5

  • Optional anchored links to each year at the top

1.2.4

  • Archive links now working again

1.2.3

  • Minor performance improvements
  • Min version set to 2.3

1.2.2

  • Private posts are now prefixed with “Private” in order to follow WordPress standards

1.2.1

  • Fixed a warning message

1.2

  • Date format can be set in the shortcode like [SimpleYearlyArchive ... dateformat="d/m"]

1.1.50

  • Changed post authot output from user_login to display_name

1.1.40

  • Added japanese localization (Thanks to Chestnut)!)

1.1.31

  • Fixed an issue on server configurations having PHP short tags disabled

1.1.30

  • Fixed an issue that threw an ‘Missing argument 3’ warning in PHP
  • Added apply_filters('sya_archive_output', $output) filter hook so you can alter the HTML output before it’s being returned
  • Added french localization (Thanks to Jean-Michel Meyer!)

1.1.20

  • Added the include parameter allowing to include categories instead of only excluding them
  • code cleanup

1.1.10

  • Minor Code Changes

1.1.9

  • Fixed issue on displaying post count for each year when there are excluded categories

1.1.8

  • Some options page changes
  • Improved compatibility with WP 2.7
  • Code improvements

1.1.7

  • Some options page changes
  • Improved compatibility with WP 2.7
  • Code improvements

1.1.5

  • Exclude code changed that works like the WordPress method now (which makes this archive plugin unique ? )
  • Private and password-protected posts now show up depending on user capibilities

1.1.2

  • Markup is now html strict compatible

1.1.1

  • Option added to display post author after each post
  • Added italian localization (Thanks to Gianni Diurno!)

1.1.0

  • Improved compatibility with WordPress 2.6
  • Added shortcode compatibility
  • Minor html changes

1.0.1

  • Improved compatibility with WordPress 2.2.x
  • Fixed issue that occasionally occured with the inline function

1.0

  • Option added to display categories after each post

0.98

  • Fixed error, that prevented backend localization

0.97

  • Simple Yearly Archive options page has WP 2.5 style (if used in WP 2.5+) (see screenshots)
  • Performance improvements

0.96

  • Year headings do not show if there are no posts in that year (Thanks to Stephanie C. Leary!)

0.95

  • Option “Show optional Excerpt” added
  • Option “Max. chars of Excerpt” added
  • Option “Indentation of Excerpt” added

0.91

  • WP 2.3 compatibility on exclude cateogries
  • minor language fixes
  • minor fixes and code optimisation

0.9

  • Added a bunch of new options

0.82

  • gettext-ready, plugins like language-switcher or polyglot are supported now

0.81

  • Now compatible with the Admin Drop Down Menu Plugin, which caused to not to be able to access the options page

0.8

  • New options page in WordPress administration
  • plugin can now be called from within a page/post

0.7

  • Now it’s possible to show posts from the given date of year only
  • Little fix in get_year_link

0.6

  • 2 parameters added: Display the current year’s posts or the past year’s posts only
  • Posts remain sorted in case of changing the post’s timestamp

0.5

  • The plugin has been released

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