Best archive pages plugins for WordPress
The most popular archive pages plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Post Type Archive Pages leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Multiple Content Types (10+) and Archive Pages in Search Lite (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “archive pages” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 archive pages plugins
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Post Type Archive PagesThe most installed archive pages plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
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Multiple Content Types10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
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Archive Pages in Search Lite10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
All 3 plugins tagged “archive pages”
Post Type Archive Pages
Down in the last 7 days:226#11,529by Darren Grant6 years ago
Place the archive pages for your post types in the structure of your content pages. The power of pages and post types combined!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Multiple Content Types
Up in the last 7 days:3#30,644by Micah Wood10 years ago
Easily select which content types (custom post types) you want to display on your main blog and archive pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Archive Pages in Search Lite
Down in the last 7 days:102#31,300by mkhaledche4 years ago
Displays archive pages for categories, tag, author, custom post types, custom taxonomies archives when searching for them.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day