Best archive plugins for WordPress
The most popular archive plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Jetpack VaultPress leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Zippy (7K+) and Posts List (7K+). All 174 plugins tagged “archive” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 archive plugins
- 1.Jetpack VaultPress
The most installed archive plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 72 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.
Zippy7K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 16 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.Posts List
7K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
- 4.
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt6K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 151 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 5.
Simple Yearly Archive6K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 30 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 6.
Archive Content with Archived Post Status5K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 36 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 7.Advanced Posts/Page
3K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 8.JS Archive List
3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 45 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool II
3K+ active installs. Rated 3.1 from 8 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 10.
Sitekit3K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 174 plugins tagged “archive”
Jetpack VaultPress
Up in the last 7 days:7#2,144by Automattic26 days ago
(DEPRECATED: Please install "Jetpack VaultPress Backup" instead) Jetpack VaultPress offers real-time backups, one-click restores, and premiu …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.8(72)
- Downloads
- 168/day

Zippy
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,521by Gesundheit Bewegt GmbH1 year ago
Incredibly easy solution to archive pages and posts as zip file and unpack them back even on the other website!
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.6(16)
- Downloads
- 41/day
Posts List
Up in the last 7 days:12#2,569by wokamoto13 years ago
Adds a posts (or pages) list of your blog pages (or posts) by entering the shortcode [posts-list].
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Easy Custom Auto Excerpt
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,709by todiadiyatmo2 years ago
Auto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.5(151)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Simple Yearly Archive
Up in the last 7 days:10#2,795by wpseek6 days ago
Simple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.7(30)
- Downloads
- 66/day

Archive Content with Archived Post Status
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,943by Joshua David Nelson16 days ago
Use an "Archived" status to unpublish content without having to trash it.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.9(36)
- Downloads
- 145/day
Advanced Posts/Page
Down in the last 7 days:9#3,884by chrisguitarguy14 years ago
Fine grained control of how many of your posts appear on each of the various WordPress archive pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
JS Archive List
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,080by Miguel Useche7 months ago
A JS widget (can be used in posts) for displaying an archive list with some effects.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(45)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool II
Down in the last 7 days:1#4,096by texttheater2 years ago
Improves your blog's search engine optimization by "noindexing" pages you choose. Now also for page-based (as opposed to date-based) archives.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.1(8)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Sitekit
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,120by webvitalii1 year ago
Widgets: search, archives and categories. Shortcodes: archives, bloginfo, iframe and categories.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 24/day
WP-dTree
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,400by ulfben11 days ago
Legacy collapsible navigation trees for WordPress. For a modern alternative with native blocks, see Content Trees.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(25)
- Downloads
- 45/day

Custom Archive Titles
Down in the last 7 days:12#4,481by ThemeZee5 years ago
A small and simple plugin to adjust the default texts of archive titles in WordPress
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:4#4,724by Tusko Trush3 years ago
Small addon for ACF Options. Adds ACF location for each custom post type. New feature in the major version 2! Important! After update to v2+ you must …
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Compact Archives
Down in the last 7 days:4#5,037by Syed Balkhi8 months ago
Displays a smart monthly archive of posts in a more compact form rather than the default long archive widget.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Archivarix External Images Importer
Down in the last 7 days:21#5,336by Archivarix Support5 months ago
Import external images in posts and pages from external sources or Web Archive if original sources are not available anymore.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Archive Control
Down in the last 7 days:10#5,405by Mike Gillihan2 years ago
Quickly customize your custom post type and taxonomy archives with a custom headline, image, and editable content. Modify order and pagination.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Extra Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:6#6,215by webvitalii3 years ago
[extra_archives], [extra_taxonomies], [bloginfo show="name"], [date format="l jS \of F Y"], [date_i18n], [time]
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
LJ Multi Column Archive
Down in the last 7 days:3#6,506by littlejon15 years ago
LJ Multi Column Archive is a Wordpress plugin/widget that allows you to display your archive list with multiple columns.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Smart Archives Reloaded
Up in the last 7 days:5#7,083by scribu9 years ago
Easily display posts grouped by year and month, in one or more elegant formats
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.3(15)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Category Archives Block
Up in the last 7 days:74#7,101by Daniel Floeter4 days ago
Displays a yearly, monthly, weekly or daily archive of posts for one or more specific categories.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Stealth Publish
Up in the last 7 days:6#7,187by Scott Reilly10 years ago
Prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds, and from notifying external services of publication.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Hide Archive Label
Down in the last 7 days:19#7,198by Catch Plugins5 months ago
Hide Archive Label is a free WordPress plugin to hide or remove archive page title prefixes such as “Category:”, “Tags:”, “Author:”, and more.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Category Archive Widget
Down in the last 7 days:26#7,719by Kaz Kadalashvili3 years ago
The Category Archive widget displays a monthly or yearly archive of posts for one specific category.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP-UTF8-Excerpt
Up in the last 7 days:4#7,814by BettyJJ5 years ago
This plugin generates a better excerpt for multi-byte language users (Chinese, for example). Besides, it keeps the html tags in the excerpt.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Archive Page
Up in the last 7 days:27#7,926by Alobaidi2 months ago
Make archive page easily with full customize and in all languages of the world.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Media from ZIP
Up in the last 7 days:18#8,277by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Extract from ZIP archive to Media Library.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Hide Author Archive
Up in the last 7 days:3#8,544by Tarosky Inc.25 days ago
Hide author archive URL of WordPress.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Archive Posts Sort Customize
#8,685by gqevu6bsiz11 years ago
Customize the display order of the list of Archive Posts.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.9(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Clean Archives Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:20#8,886by Automattic14 years ago
A slick, Javascript enhanced post archive list generator.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

ZIP from Media
Down in the last 7 days:20#9,611by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Compress from Media Library to ZIP archive.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Publication Archive
Up in the last 7 days:47#9,922by Eric Mann13 years ago
Allows users to upload, manage, search, and download publications, documents, and similar content (PDF, Power-Point, etc.).
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Remove Archive Label
Up in the last 7 days:2#10,082by oguido5 years ago
Removes the “Category:”, “Tag:”, “Author:”, “Archives:” and “Taxonomy:” in the archive title.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

LH Wayback Machine
Down in the last 7 days:51#10,384by shawfactor6 years ago
Automatically creates Wayback Machine snapshots of site, including archives
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

The Hack Repair Guy’s Plugin Archiver
Down in the last 7 days:103#10,606by The Hack Repair Guy6 days ago
Disable plugins without deleting them. Archive in one click, restore any time, and keep the archive hidden and blocked from the web.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Snazzy Archives
Up in the last 7 days:34#10,850by Vladimir Prelovac12 years ago
Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. Your archive page will never be b …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Collapsible Archive Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4#12,083by Ady Romantika17 years ago
This simple plugin is a widget that displays a collapsible archives list in your widgetized sidebar by utilizing JavaScript.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Post Type Archives
Down in the last 7 days:82#12,185by rATRIJS15 years ago
Enables custom post type archives that will support both paging and feeds. All fully customizable.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
On This Day (by Room 34)
Up in the last 7 days:103#12,694by Room 34 Creative Services, LLC5 months ago
Display your blog posts from this date in previous years as a sidebar widget.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Campaign Archive Block for Mailchimp
Up in the last 7 days:58#13,568by Bernhard Kau1 month ago
Adds a block to show an archive for Mailchimp campaigns.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MailArchiver
Up in the last 7 days:5#13,850by Pierre Lannoy2 months ago
Automatically archive all emails sent from your site. Store them in your WordPress database or send them to external services.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Archive
Down in the last 7 days:100#14,169by Frank Bueltge6 years ago
Archive your post types, also possible with cron and list via shortcode on frontend.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Smarter Archives
Up in the last 7 days:42#14,681by rob1n6 years ago
Easily navigate the yearly and monthly archives of your blog.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Post Tags and Archives
Down in the last 7 days:82#14,725by Thomas Schmall12 years ago
Display the Tag Cloud or the Archive directly in posts and pages, and change their look in the options.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Accordion Archive Widget
Down in the last 7 days:61#14,732by pathartl11 years ago
An archive widget that reconstructs the stock widget into an accordion by year with month children.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ArchiveMaster
Down in the last 7 days:303#15,135by WPPOOL6 days ago
Archive old WooCommerce orders, export data, and perform database cleanup to speed up WooCommerce store performance. Safe WooCommerce order archiving.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Flexo Archives
Up in the last 7 days:4#15,666by Heath Harrelson15 years ago
Displays your archives as a compact list of years that expands when clicked.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Category Archives
Up in the last 7 days:74#17,848by Hiroshi Sawai10 years ago
This Widget display Category Archives links on category page.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

eHive Access
Up in the last 7 days:306#18,073by Vernon Systems Limited5 months ago
The base plugin for the eHive plugin suite.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Grid Archives
Up in the last 7 days:6#18,084by samsonw13 years ago
Grid Archives offers a grid style archives page for WordPress.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Monthchunks
Down in the last 7 days:224#18,179by Justin Watt10 months ago
Concisely display monthly archives by year with links to each month.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day