Tiago Madeira

The website of the brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo has a nice way to 
display news in a retrospective-style (check <a href="http://blog.tiagomadeira.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/estadao.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc">this 
screenshot</a> 
or <a href="http://www.estadao.com.br/especiais/choque-nas-ruas,158638.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">this link</a> 
— Flash required).
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could display WordPress posts in our pages and 
categories in the same way just by using a shortcode? The possibilities are 
many. That’s why I wrote the Retrospective plugin for WordPress.
It has at least two advantages over the version you just saw:
<ul>
<li>Does not require Flash (its implementation uses only CSS and jQuery)</li>
<li>Has a option to respect the (time-)scale of the posts.</li>
</ul>
See Installation for more info on how to use it.

Retrospective

Retrospective plugin displays last posts or posts from a specific category in a nice-looking "retrospective" way using a shortcode.

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>
<a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/archived-post-status/" rel="nofollow ugc">Over 13</a> languages supported
Did you find this plugin helpful? Please consider <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/archived-post-status" rel="ugc">leaving a 5-star review</a>.
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.

Retrospective vs Archive Content with Archived Post Status