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Archivist

By Ben Huson

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Description

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, monthly, weekly or daily archive links.

Just add the Archivist widget to your sidebar and configure.

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Archivist Widget

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astroturtle February 2, 2026

Incredibly this is the only plugin that I found that a) is a widget b) groups archives by year and c) integrates well with themes. It works perfectly with WordPress 6.9 as well.

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Contributors & Developers

“Archivist” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Ben Huson

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Changelog

1.1

Tested up to WordPress 5.6.
Requires WordPress 4.3+
Deprecate PHP 4 style constructors and methods – require PHP 5.6+.
Add translations file.

1.0.2

Fixed some PHP warnings.
Checked it works OK with WordPress 3.3

1.0.1

Added screenshot.
Updated read me file.

1.0

First Release.

Ratings

5 out of 5 stars.

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