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1. Not sure if there’s a specific function for this as i didn’t find anything with a quick search, but i went ahead and wrote a function to do the job, feel free to expand upon it or do whatever you like with it.

   List year archives for published posts of a type

   Code is provided “as is”, do as you will with it.

   function get_years_for_type( $type = 'post', $echo = false, $sep = '<br />' ) {
       global $wpdb, $wp_post_types;
   
       $type = '' == $type ? 'post' : $type;
   
       if( !isset( $wp_post_types[$type] ) )
           return;
   
       $q = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT YEAR(post_date) as year FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = %s AND post_status = 'publish' GROUP by year", $type ) );
   
       if( empty( $q ) )
           return;
   
       $y = array();
       foreach( $q as $year )
           $y[] = '<a href="' . get_year_link( $year ) . '">' . $year . '</a>';
   
       $y = implode( $sep, $y );
   
       if( $echo )
           echo $y;
       else
           return $y;
   }
   

   Example usage:

   // Output list of years for pages
   echo get_years_for_type( 'page' );
   get_years_for_type( 'page', true ); 
   
   // Output list of years for posts
   echo get_years_for_type();
   get_years_for_type( 'post', true ); 
   
   // Storing the result in a variable
   $var = get_years_for_type(); // post is assumed for type when none set
   
   // Using an alternate seperator for the links
   echo get_years_for_type( 'post', false, ' | ' );    
   get_years_for_type( 'post', true, ' | ' );
   

   Hope that helps..

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2. There is decent native function wp_get_archives() for such, but unfortunately native archives widget doesn’t use all of it and is limited to monthly archives.

   Take a look at Widgets Reloaded plugin, it replaces native widgets with more configurable versions.

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