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This plugin allows you to archive your WordPress content similar to the way you archive your e-mail. Unlike other archiving solutions though this actually does it all and does it properly
<ul>
<li>Makes a new post status available in the drop down called Archived</li>
<li>Hides or removes your content without having to trash the content</li>
<li>Content can either be hidden entirely from public view or simply from the main loop and feed and pages, with other solutions you can only hide it from public view.</li>
<li>Allows you to add a label to the title of those posts/pages etc that are archived</li>
<li>Allows you to add a message to the top of the post/page etc that the content is no longer up too date</li>
<li>Allows you to set an archiving date after which content is automatically changed to having an archived status</li>
<li>Compatible with posts, pages and custom post types</li>
</ul>
This plugin is ideal for sites where certain kinds of content is not meant to be evergreen
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LH Archived Post Status


When Automattic developed WordPress, it had a crazy notion of what an 'archive' is. 20+ years later, we're stuck to the same definition: WP considers that an 'archive' is really just a list of past articles, neatly ordered by month/year.



But that's not the case. A real Archive is a place where you can store posts that are not relevant any longer — thus keeping them away from the Loop — but without deleting them, because, naturally enough, the whole point of having an Archive is to allow search engines and backlinks to 'old' articles to still work correctly.



This is the whole point of this simple plugin: to allow to add a new status to every post/page, classifying it as having been archived. This means that the post/page will not require any changes: it doesn't need to be deleted, change its category, add any tags, or simply set to Draft (so that it doesn't appear). Instead, posts and pages stay exactly as they were before — just with a new status (beyond the classic ones, i.e., published, private, draft).



Because this status is an addition, this means that all well-behaved plugins and themes will not recognise it as a valid status (i.e. when checking if a post is published, the theme/plugin will not find the archived posts), and so they effectively 'disappear' from the visibility status of most 3rd party code. That's exactly what we expect to happen with an 'archived' post. And that's precisely what this plugin does, and does quite well; as such, it comes as highly recommended by many reviewers, and ranks high on their lists of 'best' plugins for a specific purpose.



The plugin itself is well-written, strictly follows all coding guidelines as set by Automattic and the developer community, regularly maintained, and has very reasonable support on the forums: issues are opened, followed up by the author, and closed when resolved or when threads become stale due to lack of activity. Documentation is minimal, because the plugin is so simple to activate and use (and not because anything is missing).



Sadly, at the time of writing this (July 2023), this plugin suffers from a dependency of a third-party library which, unfortunately, breaks the posting workflow, introducing a new way of saving new posts which is not only counter-intuitive, but lacks essential functionality. Work is under progress to restore the normal functionality of the posting workflow, but, until that happens (which is beyond the plugin author's control), it means that you very likely won't wish to use this plugin on any WordPress site that is used by more than one author.



I will certainly review my classification in the future, once this major issue gets resolved, and LH Archived Post Status works again, flawlessly integrated into the WordPress posting workflow, as it did in pre-Gutenberg days.


If you need to have a real Archive, this is the plugin you want

Allows posts and pages to be archived so you can remove content from the main loop and feed without having to trash it.

Steve Henty

Gravity Forms Approvals is an add-on for the Gravity Forms plugin.
Gravity Forms Approvals adds simple approval processes to forms. This allows forms to be approved by an administrator upon submission. Approvals can be governed by conditional logic/routing to allow for a wide range of different workflow automations, such as:
<ul>
<li>Vacation request forms for employees to complete company-wide. Form submissions must be approved or rejected by the employee’s department director. Pending approvals must be displayed in a personalized list for each director. The data from approved forms will be sent to a Google Spreadsheet.</li>
<li>A system to handle the approval by the appropriate departmental director of all incoming invoices. e.g. Invoices over $9,999 must also have the approval of the Finance Director before the pricing data is sent to the ERP system.</li>
<li>Allowing user registration on the front-end but ensuring that WordPress account signups can be approved by multiple admins before they are created and before the activation emails are sent to the users.</li>
</ul>
FEATURES
<ul>
<li>Add new Approval functionality to your existing Gravity Forms forms.</li>
<li>Use a simple approval process for Gravity Forms entries or configure complex conditional logic approvals dependent on individual form fields, drop-downs, checkboxes, radio buttons, and more.</li>
<li>Send different notifications on approval or rejection events using conditional logic.</li>
<li>Compatibility with a wide range of Gravity Forms add-ons.</li>
</ul>
If you use it and like it <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravityformsapprovals/" rel="ugc">please consider giving it a rating</a>.
If this add-on doesn’t quite meet your needs, or if you’d like an add-on that will grow with your business workflow processes you may want to check out <a href="https://gravityflow.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravity Flow</a>. Gravity Flow supports multiple steps, process branching and loops, user input, approval policies, advanced conditional routing, timestamps, audit trail, comments, and it has a complete interface for users for pending tasks, submitting forms, and viewing the status of previously submitted forms.
If you’d like an add-on that will grow with your business workflow processes, check out <a href="https://gravityflow.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Gravity Flow</a>. Endlessly scalable, secure, and easy-to-use, Gravity Flow is a powerful – and affordable – alternative to pay-per-user SaaS workflow tools. 
Gravity Flow comes with an advanced Business automation feature set, including
<ul>
<li>Multiple steps with over 50 different step types</li>
<li>Process branching and review loops</li>
<li>Complete frontend experience for workflow participants</li>
<li>Entry editing in the frontend with User Input steps</li>
<li>Approval policies</li>
<li>Advanced conditional routing</li>
<li>Timeline for each entry with detailed activity log</li>
<li>Audit trails</li>
<li>Integration triggers for third-party services</li>
<li>Detailed reporting</li>
</ul>
It has a complete interface for users for pending tasks, submitting forms, and viewing the status of previously submitted forms. 
Gravity Flow is trusted by customers from the City University of New York to Verizon.
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.stevenhenty.com/out/gravityforms" rel="nofollow ugc">Purchase and install Gravity Forms</a> (Affiliate link)</li>
<li>WordPress 5.2+</li>
<li>The latest version of Gravity Forms.</li>
</ol>

Gravity Forms Approvals Add-On

Add simple approval workflow processes to your Gravity Forms.

LH Archived Post Status vs Gravity Forms Approvals Add-On