Monthchunks Plugin

Display monthly archives by year with links to each month in the following compact format:

2012 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2011 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2010 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 

Serves as a drop in replacement for wp_get_archives( array( 'type' => 'monthly' ) );.

If you’re interested in contributing to the code behind this plugin, it’s also hosted on GitHub:
https://github.com/justincwatt/wp-monthchunks

1. Extract the zip file, drop the contents in your wp-content/plugins/ directory, and then activate from the Plugins page.
2. Edit your theme file (e.g. sidebar.php) and replace the WordPress template tag wp_get_archives(); with monthchunks();
3. You can also add it as a widget to any sidebar

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   This is how Monthchunks looks with the Twenty Eleven theme. You can see here that 4 years of archives (eventually 48 links) take up less than 200 vertical pixels of precious sidebar real estate. Note that if you're browsing a monthly archive page, that month's number is emboldened, but not linked. If you hover over the link for any month, you'll see the localized month name and year as a tooltip.

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3.1.1

• Fix text domain

3.1

• Changed l10n to adjust to new plugin translation process
  ** Updated text-domain

3.0.4

• Fix PHP Notice, incorrectly using variable instead of instance field. (thanks Birgir Erlendsson – @birgire)

3.0.3

• Improve class constructor

3.0.2

• Fix backwards compatibility calls to monthchunks

3.0.1

• Fix admin area issue

3.0

• Major refactor of the code
  ** Created different files to split the backend logic and the widget
• Includes widget support
• Added localization templates

2.4

• Added the new “abbreviation” mode for month display (thanks Xavi Ivars)

2.3

• Use WordPress’ Date and Time Locale object to localize month names in tooltip
• Change default year_order sort to descending (more closely matches wp_get_archives)
• Appropriately escape html output (though largely unnecessary)
• Fix: only display archive link for months with posts (not pages)

2.2

• Generate output with a single SQL query, instead of N+1, where N was the number of years of post archives

2.1

• Add year_order and month_format options
• Add title="month_name year" attribute (aka tooltips) to the month links
• Lmited visible archives to posts with post_status = ‘publish’
• Revise pretty html output slightly
• Add semifix for year = “0000” bug

2.0

• Remove <ul></ul> output to make monthchunks more of a drop-in replacement for wp_get_archives()
• Add logic to de-link from current month
• Sort years in chronlogical order
• Don’t print separator space after last month of year

1.2

• Use $wpdb->posts instead of wp_posts as table name

1.1

• Use WordPress’ get_month_link() function to output link to monthly archive (thanks raphaële)

1.0

• Initial version