Best archives plugins for WordPress
The most popular archives plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Disable Author Archives leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Simple Yearly Archive (6K+) and Advanced Posts/Page (3K+). All 79 plugins tagged “archives” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 archives plugins
- 1.
Disable Author ArchivesThe most installed archives plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 7 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Simple Yearly Archive6K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 30 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 3.
Advanced Posts/Page3K+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 4.
Collapsing Archives3K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 21 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool II3K+ active installs. Rated 3.1 from 8 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 6.
Expanding Archives3K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
Sitekit3K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.
Compact Archives2K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.
Tainacan1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 12 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 10.
Post Type Archive Descriptions1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
All 79 plugins tagged “archives”
Disable Author Archives
Up in the last 7 days:17#1,474by freemp2 months ago
Disable Author Archives completely removes author archives and makes the web server return status code 404 ('Not Found') instead.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 59/day
Simple Yearly Archive
#2,801by wpseek5 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
- 45/day
Advanced Posts/Page
Down in the last 7 days:19#3,883by 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
Collapsing Archives
Up in the last 7 days:15#3,993by robfelty8 months ago
This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of months for each year and posts for each month in the archive listing of your …
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.1(21)
- Downloads
- 33/day
Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool II
Up in the last 7 days:4#4,098by 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
- 16/day
Expanding Archives
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,119by Ashley2 months ago
This plugin adds a new widget where you can view your old posts by expanding certain years and months.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(6)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Sitekit
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,122by webvitalii1 year ago
Widgets: search, archives and categories. Shortcodes: archives, bloginfo, iframe and categories.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Compact Archives
Down in the last 7 days:10#5,041by 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
- 17/day
Tainacan
Down in the last 7 days:16#5,260by tainacan19 days ago
A powerful and flexible open-source repository platform that brings digital collection management to WordPress.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 95/day
Post Type Archive Descriptions
Down in the last 7 days:26#5,870by mrwweb3 years ago
Enables an editable description to display on post type archive pages. Show the description with WordPress's the_archive_description() function t …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Extra Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:3#6,220by 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
Collapsed Archives
Up in the last 7 days:4#6,265by Matthew Petroff5 years ago
Adds a widget to display archive links using purely CSS-based collapsing.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Smart Archives Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:7#7,092by 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:39#7,116by Daniel Floeter3 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
Custom Posts Per Page
Down in the last 7 days:12#7,334by Jeremy Felt12 years ago
Custom Posts Per Page provides a settings page in your WordPress admin that allows you to specify how many posts are displayed for different views.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Clean My Archives
Down in the last 7 days:47#7,523by Justin Tadlock9 years ago
An easy-to-use shortcode for displaying post archives on your site.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Custom Query Blocks
Up in the last 7 days:6#7,864by Ronald Huereca1 month ago
Map your archives to pages. Map 404 and term archives as well.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.6(25)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Archive Page
Up in the last 7 days:34#7,921by 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
Custom Posts Per Page Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:2#8,127by WPZOOM2 months ago
Set how many posts are displayed per page for each view type — home, categories, tags, authors, archives, search, and custom post types.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day
WP Easy Uploader
Up in the last 7 days:2#8,532by Chris Jean17 years ago
Easily upload any type of content without the need for FTP. You can even upload plugin and theme archives, and the files will be extracted for you.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Tainacan Support for Blocksy
Down in the last 7 days:3#8,763by tainacan1 month ago
A plugin for integrating Tainacan plugin pages with the amazing Blocksy theme.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Clean Archives Reloaded
Down in the last 7 days:59#8,896by Automattic14 years ago
A slick, Javascript enhanced post archive list generator.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Tainacan Extra View Modes
Up in the last 7 days:8#9,181by tainacan11 months ago
A view modes plugin for Tainacan, which registers a list of 8 extra view modes that may be used to display your items list.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Snazzy Archives
Up in the last 7 days:29#10,857by 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
Posts per Cat
Down in the last 7 days:261#11,806by Aleksandar Urošević1 year ago
Group recent posts by category and show them inside boxes organized to columns.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Tainacan URL Metadata Type
Down in the last 7 days:27#13,839by tainacan2 years ago
This plugin is not required anymore if you are using Tainacan 0.21.0, as the URL metadata type has become an official metadata type inside the plugin.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
AW WordPress Yearly Category Archives
Up in the last 7 days:50#14,261by AndyWarren8 years ago
This plugin will allow for yearly archives of specific categories from all post types and "Posts".
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Tags and Archives
Down in the last 7 days:66#14,699by 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
Smarter Archives
Down in the last 7 days:1#14,728by rob1n6 years ago
Easily navigate the yearly and monthly archives of your blog.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Archives
Up in the last 7 days:40#14,795by Kodetop17 years ago
Display your archives with year/month list.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ArchiveMaster
Down in the last 7 days:193#15,122by WPPOOL4 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
- 40/day
Flexo Archives
Down in the last 7 days:44#15,663by 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
Calendar Archives
Up in the last 7 days:70#16,418by Amit Badkas13 years ago
Calendar Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site which creates yearly calendar for your posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Archive Disabler
Down in the last 7 days:111#16,863by chrisguitarguy14 years ago
Archive disabler allows you to "turn off" some of WordPress' built in archive pages.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Archives by Category and Date
Up in the last 7 days:233#17,879by WEN Solutions1 month ago
This plugin shows archives in a categorized way that is archives are categorized under category name and date.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Child Pages Card
Down in the last 7 days:10#17,989by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Displays child page archives in card form.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Grid Archives
Down in the last 7 days:17#18,079by 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:78#18,104by Justin Watt10 months ago
Concisely display monthly archives by year with links to each month.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
PTAPS
Down in the last 7 days:601#18,336by Timo H1 month ago
Use archive pages for custom post types and improve WordPress SEO by managing permalinks for custom post types and taxonomies.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP-EasyArchives
Up in the last 7 days:91#21,840by mg1214 years ago
Display your archive tree on custom page.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Breadcrumb
#22,246by I Wayan sudharmika10 years ago
Simple Breadcrumb is just another simple wordpress plugin which show breadcrumb
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Genesis Custom Post Types Archives
Up in the last 7 days:7#23,315by Travis Smith14 years ago
Allows you to customize Genesis Custom Post Type archive pages for solid SEO.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Results count
Down in the last 7 days:300#24,158by mat8iou16 years ago
When you search in Google, it tells you at the start how many results you have & what page you are on in the results. The Results Count plugin giv …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
ARCW Popover Addon
#24,755by alek10 years ago
Popover Addon for Archives Calendar Widget
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Around this date in the past…
Down in the last 7 days:154#25,281by Joan Junyent Tarrida16 years ago
It shows entries/posts around today's date in the past (if they exist). It is highly customizable.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Small Archives
#25,528by matsuoshi10 years ago
Small Archives is monthly archive widget, display smaller list.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Archivist
Down in the last 7 days:4#26,948by Ben Huson5 years ago
Gives you a few extra function for the archives widget including limiting the amount of archives to show and wether you want to display yearly, monthl …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Post Archives
#27,176by Jacob Dunn15 years ago
Custom Post Archives creates a fully featured set of archives for each post type using a robust back-end and native templating functionality.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Logarithmic Pagination
Up in the last 7 days:69#27,232by Jonas13 years ago
This plugin inserts pagination to your blog, archives and search results based on logarithmic calculation for a more evenly distributed link-juice.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nix Prefix
Up in the last 7 days:54#28,439by sarah semark7 years ago
A super-simple plugin to remove the "Category:" prefix text on archive page titles.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day