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Archive

by Frank Bueltge · Uncategorized

Also makes 3 other plugins · 101.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Archive your post types, also possible with cron and list via shortcode on frontend.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 64/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 56 average across 16,380 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.35, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2311 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+8% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Sep 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

84

now · peak 135

8930d downloads · Sep 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Archive · #13994 you Custom Post Type Mak · #2913 Autoremove Attachmen · #4148 Advanced Custom Fiel · #4677

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.3Stars · Sep 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

890per 1k installs · Sep 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

9.6y ago

latest release · v1.0.2

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.2 · 9.6y ago0.0.5 · 11.6y ago0.0.4 · 12.4y ago0.0.3 · 15.2y ago0.0.2 · 15.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-08-20 · 1,389 observations

100Installs · Sep 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0.2
Last updated
6.3y ago
Added
2011-06-01 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.7.35
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. inhouseodds
    11.6y ago

    Attempted to archive a post, instead it was just deleted with no recovery option offered. I deleted and removed the plugin but to no avail the post was forever lost in the “archive” that could never be seen.

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  2. chnikki
    11.7y ago

    I used this plugin in a couple projects last year and it worked perfectly! I needed a way to archive some pages/posts from being listed on the backend, but I didn’t want to delete them. This plugin fit the bill. I was attempting to use it on another project, but unfortunately I get this error: Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/example2015/public_html/wp-content/plugins/archive/archive.php on line 386 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/example2015/public_html/wp-content/plugins/archive/archive.php:386) in /home/example2015/public_html/wp-admin/post.php on line 233 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/example2015/public_html/wp-content/plugins/archive/archive.php:386) in /home/example2015/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1178 Are there plans to update this plugin to be compatible with WP 4.1 soon?

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  3. Momo
    13.5y ago

    I just moved from Blogger to hosted WordPress and don’t like the Archive at all, I think it should be able to show the Title of your blog posts instead of just the dates so people will have an easier time looking through your blog and finding what they want to read.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

German 100%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-08-31 200+ → 100+ down after 707 days in tier
  2. 2023-09-24 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-09-23 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
  4. 2023-09-21 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2023-09-19 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
  6. 2023-09-17 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-09-16 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-09-15 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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