shawfactor

This plugin creates an additional post status ‘restricted’. This status functions similarly to setting a post, page, or cpt to private. However with this plugin you can specify which roles have access to restricted posts
This is required because natively WordPress follows a publishing/editorial paradigm and therefore the ‘read_private_posts’ capability is only granted to admins and editors.

LH Restricted Post Status

Restrict access to posts, pages, and cpts by user role

Frankie Jarrett

Joshua David Nelson

This plugin allows you to archive your WordPress content similar to the way you archive your e-mail.
<ul>
<li>Unpublish your posts and pages without having to trash them</li>
<li>Archive content is hidden from public view</li>
<li>Compatible with posts, pages, and public custom post types</li>
<li>Ideal for sites where certain kinds of content is not meant to be evergreen</li>
<li>Easily extended (see below)</li>
</ul>
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Development of this plugin is done <a href="https://github.com/joshuadavidnelson/archived-post-status" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>. Pull requests welcome. Please see <a href="https://github.com/joshuadavidnelson/archived-post-status/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues reported</a> there before going to the plugin forum.

Archive Content with Archived Post Status

Thanks!


This is a well maintained, perfectly working, nicely extendable and configurable plugin that does exactly what it says, no nagging about "Upgrade to Pro". It works with WordPress to add a new possibility within the established status concept, not outside of it, hence very little extra added complexity.



I have installed, and been using, this plugin on all sites I manage for about ten years. I train my clients and content authors to archive, not trash, content that should no longer be published, for any reason and only trash test, erronous or vastly incomplete content. There ar plenty space ikn tghe database to store the history of your site content, so why irreversibly delete it?



Wholeheartedly recommended for almost any WordPress site. Could have been part of WP core.


Excellent plugin - very useful

Use an "Archived" status to unpublish content without having to trash it.

LH Restricted Post Status vs Archive Content with Archived Post Status