If I understand you correctly you want to have the last 10 posts listed and then a listing of monthly archives below that? (correct me if I'm wrong).

If so, and you're using 1.8+ then you just need to find a section of your skins _main.php that looks something like this :-

	<?php
		// -------------------------- ARCHIVES INCLUDED HERE -----------------------------
		// Call the Archives plugin:
		$Plugins->call_by_code( 'evo_Arch', array(	// Add parameters below:
			) );
		// -------------------------------- END OF ARCHIVES ----------------------------------
	?>

and change it to :-

	<?php
		// show last 10 posts
		// -------------------------- ARCHIVES INCLUDED HERE -----------------------------
		// Call the Archives plugin:
		$Plugins->call_by_code( 'evo_Arch', array(	// Add parameters below:
		'mode' => 'postbypost',
		'limit' => 10
			) );
		// -------------------------------- END OF ARCHIVES ----------------------------------
	?>
	<?php
		// show last 12 months
		// -------------------------- ARCHIVES INCLUDED HERE -----------------------------
		// Call the Archives plugin:
		$Plugins->call_by_code( 'evo_Arch', array(	// Add parameters below:
		'mode' => 'monthly',
		'limit' => 12
			) );
		// -------------------------------- END OF ARCHIVES ----------------------------------
	?>

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Awesome! Thank you very much!

In general this works really great and I´m using this now... but I´m wondering about some things:

1) Using this on blog1 the user cannot see, which posting comes from which other blog (2,3, ...). Would it be possible to diplay the blogname in e.g. in brackets behind the post title?

2) Would it be possible to display the post date e.g. in brackets behind the post title?

3) Would it be possible to show the last x posts with this code in such form, that e.g. on blog2 not the last x post only from blog2 are shown, but the last x post from blog1 (so the last x post from all blogs combined)?

Or do I have to include my own rss-feed for this...

Greetings,
Daniel

1 & 2 -> you'd need to hack the actual archives plugin to achieve this

3) You just need to change the code to something like this :

	$tempblog = $blog;
	$tempBlog = $Blog;
	$blog = 1;
	$Blog = $BlogCache->get_by_ID( 1 );
	// Call the Archives plugin:
        $Plugins->call_by_code( 'evo_Arch', array(    // Add parameters below:
        'mode' => 'postbypost',
        'limit' => 10
            ) ); 
	// -------------------------------- END OF ARCHIVES ----------------------------------
	$blog = $tempblog;
	$Blog = $tempBlog;

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