shawfactor

<p>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</p>
<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>
<p>This plugin is ideal for sites where certain kinds of content is not meant to be evergreen</p>
<p><strong>Like this plugin? Please consider <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/lh-archived-post-status/" rel="ugc">leaving a 5-star review</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Love this plugin or want to help the LocalHero Project? Please consider <a href="https://lhero.org/portfolio/lh-archived-post-status/" rel="nofollow ugc">making a donation</a>.</strong></p>


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is the whole point of this simple plugin: to allow to add a new status to every post/page, classifying it as having been archived.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.

nuggetsol

<p>Oasis Workflow is a powerful feature rich plugin designed to automate any editorial workflow process using a simple, intuitive drag and drop interface.</p>
<h4>Typical users/audience for Oasis Workflow</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress sites with multiple authors that are looking to manage their content review and publication process more efficiently.</li>
<li>Industries like healthcare, law firms, financial firms, universities, CPA firms, non-profits, news outlets and blogs, that publish articles regularly and need a formal review process.</li>
<li>Industries with strict auditing requirements where they need to track who made the change, when was the change made and what was changed.</li>
</ul>
<h4>The plugin provides three simple process/task templates:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Assignment – represents task related to content generation.</li>
<li>Review – represents task related to content review.</li>
<li>Publish – represents the actual “publish” or “review and publish” task.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Visual Work flow Designer</strong><br />
 – Configure your workflow using our easy drag and drop designer interface. See screen shots for more detail.</p>
<p><strong>Role-Based routing definitions allow you to assign tasks dynamically</strong><br />
 – By using role-based routing, you can ensure that your process moves forward as quickly as possible without sacrificing accountability.</p>
<p><strong>Inbox</strong><br />
 – Users can view their current assignments and sign off their tasks once it’s completed.</p>
<p><strong>Custom Statuses</strong><br />
 – Define custom statuses for your editorial workflow. With custom statuses you can define your own post statuses and assign it to the success or failure path of the workflow.</p>
<p><strong>Process history lets users retrace their steps</strong><br />
 – For auditing purposes a record is created every time an article is routed through a workflow process. The process history also captures the comments added by the user during task sign off.</p>
<p><strong>Reassign – How to pass the buck?</strong><br />
 – What if you have been assigned a workflow task, but you feel you are not the appropriate person to complete it? No worry, you can use the re-assign feature to pass the task to another person.</p>
<p><strong>Due Date and Email reminders</strong> help you to publish your articles on time.</p>
<p><strong>Out of the box workflow</strong><br />
– To get you started, the plugin comes with two out of the box workflow – Single Level Review Workflow, and Multi Level Review Workflow. You can modify the workflow to suit your needs.</p>
<p><strong>If you are looking for additional functionality, check out our “Pro” version – Oasis Workflow Pro: https://www.oasisworkflow.com/pricing-purchase</strong><br />
<strong>It comes with additional features like,</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/documentation/working-with-workflows/revise-published-content" rel="nofollow ugc">Revise published content and add workflow support to revised content</a> – Use workflow to edit your published content while keeping the published article online.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/documentation/working-with-workflows/auto-submit-to-workflow" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto Submit</a> – Allows you to automatically submit to workflow(s) with certain conditions.</li>
<li>And add-ons, like “Editorial Contextual Comments”, “Editorial Checklist”, “Teams”, “Front End shortcodes”, “Groups”</li>
<li>And much more.. </li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to try out the “Pro” features, send us a message at <a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/request-a-demo-site" rel="nofollow ugc">Request a Demo Site</a> and we will setup a demo site for you to try out the “Pro” features. As a bonus, we will also add our add-ons to the demo site.<br />
More details for each feature, screenshots and documentation can be found on <a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">our website</a>.</p>
<h4>Supported languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Ukrainian</li>
<li>Russian</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translators</h4>
<ul>
<li>French (fr_FR) – <a href="http://www.batrieg.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Baptiste Rieg</a></li>
<li>Italian (it_IT) – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/molokom" rel="nofollow ugc">Martino Stenta</a></li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE) – Norbert Kustra</li>
<li>Ukrainian (uk) – Andy Prokopchuk</li>
</ul>
<p>If you need help setting up the roles, we recommend <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/" title="Capability Manager Enhanced plugin" rel="ugc">Capability Manager Enhanced plugin</a> OR <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/" title="User Role Editor plugin" rel="ugc">User Role Editor plugin</a>.<br />
Oasis Workflow adds a few custom capabilities to manage your workflows. Check out <a href="https://www.oasisworkflow.com/documentation/working-with-workflows/oasis-workflow-custom-capabilities-explained" rel="nofollow ugc">Oasis Workflow Custom Capabilities</a></p>
<h4>Videos to help you get started with Oasis Workflow</h4>
<p>Creating and Editing a workflow</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JbJJQMMnf5U?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>How it works? See the workflow in action.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_R2uVWQicsM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>Modify a workflow which has posts/pages currently in progress</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mJ2hPsSBGcE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>How to manage published content via workflow – revise published content (applicable to “Pro” version only)</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J4qJG7-F1qQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>


Oasis Workflow

Automate your WordPress Editorial Workflow with Oasis Workflow. Simple, intuitive drag and drop workflow builder to streamline your editorial process.

LH Archived Post Status vs Oasis Workflow