The Extended Live Archive is an excellent wordpress plugin that lets you automatically create an AJAX powered archive page for your WordPress blogs. We have currently set it up on a blog for you to see it at work here.

It does suffer from one massive problem though. It wont work in anything except IE 7.

This is a shame, the plugin from Sons of Skadi, is excellent. When it does work (for example, in IE7) it works well. The problem is when it doesn’t work there is very little in the way of place holder content to tell the user what they are missing out on. The Support Forum for the plugin is almost useless for this (despite the number of times it tells you to go there for advice) so it seems that this is either a unique problem to the way it has been installed this time, or a bug which will remain for quite a while.

Now, IE is IE so in time the entire world will be using it but currently there is not a high enough percentage of users to make this sort of plugin sensible on anything other than a personal page. Remember more half the people out there, browsing, are not using IE7!

There are, as you can imagine with such a complicated plug in, several pitfalls on the installation but the 24FightingChickens site has some excellent advice to work through these. Shame about the Opera / FireFox / IE < 7 problems though.