Andreas Norman

Norman Advanced Archive Widget is a free replacement for the standard WordPress archive widget. Norman Advanced Archive Widget has plenty of neat customization options available that the default archive widget is lacking, like the ability to group monthly archives by year and let them fold using JQuery.
<h4>Features:</h4>
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<li>Option to limit display of archive by current category. Only the posts in the current category will be listed</li>
<li>Option to group monthly archives by year </li>
<li>JQuery powered fold to show and hide monthly archives in a year.</li>
<li>Option to truncate month names or not.</li>
<li>Option to show/hide archive count and the design option to decide if you want the count to be displayed inside the link or not.</li>
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Norman Advanced Archive Widget

Norman Advanced Archive Widget is a free replacement for the standard WordPress archive widget. Lots of customization options to satisfy your needs.

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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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.

Norman Advanced Archive Widget vs Archive Content with Archived Post Status