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is the whole point of this simple plugin: to allow to add a new status to every post/page, classifying it as having been archived.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

Peter

<p>Add notes on the “edit post” and “edit page” screens’ sidebars in WordPress 2.8 and up. When used with <a href="http://www.theblog.ca/wordpress-collaboration-emails" title="From Peter's Useful Crap" rel="nofollow ugc">Peter’s Collaboration E-mails</a> 1.2 and up, the notes are sent along with the e-mails in the collaboration workflow.  There is also a general and private notes system on the dashboard.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<p>On its own, this plugin adds a panel to the sidebar of the add and edit post / page screens so that users can add notes for themselves or others and keep track of these notes. Whenever you save a post, you can type a note to be displayed along with the post in the edit view.</p>
<p>On the dashboard, there’s also a summary of the most recent notes. By default this shows notes by all people on relevant posts / pages. There is also a general and private notes system.</p>
<p>For an illustrated explanation on how the plugin works with <a href="http://www.theblog.ca/wordpress-collaboration-emails" title="From Peter's Useful Crap" rel="nofollow ugc">Peter’s Collaboration E-mails</a> to send e-mails with the notes, see <a href="http://www.theblog.ca/wordpress-post-notes" title="From Peter's Useful Crap" rel="nofollow ugc">this page</a>.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>fr_FR translation by Denis Rebaud</li>
<li>pt_BR translation by Murillo Ferrari</li>
<li>es_ES translation by Karin Sequen</li>
<li>ja translation by Kazuhiro Terada</li>
<li>pl_PL translation by Michal Rozmiarek</li>
<li>nl_NL translation by Rene of http://wpwebshop.com</li>
<li>sv_SE translation by Karin Lindholm</li>
<li>ru_RU translation by Alexander Maltsev</li>
<li>tr_TR translation by Berkay Unal of http://www.berkayunal.com</li>
<li>da_DK translation by Lars Andersen</li>
<li>de_DE translation by Tobias Karnetzke</li>
<li>lt_LT translation by Vincent G of http://www.host1free.com</li>
<li>it_IT translation by Ludo</li>
<li>cs_CZ translation by Michal Kuk</li>
<li>sk_SK translation by Patrik Žec (PATWIST) of http://patwist.com</li>
<li>he_IL translation by Itamar Megged</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 3.2 or higher</li>
</ul>


Peter’s Post Notes

This plugin makes it easier to work with multiple person.

magnificent plugin

Add notes to the "edit post" and "edit page" sidebars. Collaborators can also share notes on the WordPress dashboard.

LH Archived Post Status vs Peter’s Post Notes