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Tidy Archives will display your archives in a practical way. It displays links to monthly archives together with direct post links for the current year, while for previous years it only displays a link to the yearly archives.
The format in short:
Month Year
– list of posts in that month
followed by a list of previous years.
So the idea is to have the archives displayed like this example:
February 2011
– Post 3
– Post 2
– Post 1
January 2011
– Post 4
– Post 3
– Post 2
– Post 1
2010
2009
2008