Best yearly plugins for WordPress
The most popular yearly plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Category Archives Block leads with 900+ active installs, ahead of Date Pagination (70+) and Archivist (20+). All 4 plugins tagged “yearly” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 yearly plugins
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Category Archives BlockThe most installed yearly plugin, with 900+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 2.
Date Pagination70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 3.
Archivist20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.23.
- 4.Spice Archive Page
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 4 plugins tagged “yearly”

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

Date Pagination
Up in the last 7 days:133#18,278by keesiemeijer6 years ago
Paginate your posts by year, month or day.
- Installs
- 70+
- 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
Spice Archive Page
Down in the last 7 days:124#34,401by a.ankit8 years ago
Plugin allows you to display yearly, monthly and daily archives in pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day