Maybe you have too many things going on that sidebar. Who could resist all of those handy comments, text, and image widgets anyway? One thing that might suffer from the overload of widgets would be your archives. If you’ve been blogging for a long time your archives list might be cluttering up your blog’s sidebar. You can try to solve the problem by taking the list off the side and putting it all a separate page. But if you don’t want to remove the archives, there’s nothing to worry about. Reid Beels has come up with an archive drop down menu widget for those who want easy access to old posts but don’t have the space to put it.

The items in the menu are sorted by date and categories by default, but it can also be sorted by tag categories if you have the Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin installed. The Ultimate Tag Warrior lets you tag posts from the write post page, an Ajax-supported tag box, or by a special syntax on external editors. Be warned that if you choose to have all three options enabled on the drop-down menu it can get very long.

How to install
After downloading the archive, unzip and place dropdown-archive.php file the in the wp-content/plugins folder.

Download link to the zip file.

Reid Beels also made a Search Field Widget specific the the Safari browser to offer an alternative to the default WordPress search widget. He also made a plugin that lists all attachments in an Worspress 2.x post after the text. You can find both on the technology category of his site.

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