Archiver vs Compact Archives

Like this plugin? Please consider leaving a 5-star review. Archiver integrates your website with the Wayback Machine to create easy-to-view snapshots of your site over time, giving you a fully navigable visual history of the changes you’ve made. The plugin gives you some handy tools to easily trigger and view snapshots: Automatically creates a Wayback Machine snapshot when you update your content. Allows you to manually trigger a Wayback Machine snapshot of any page on your site using the admin. Allows you to easily view your site’s Wayback Machine archives (all snapshots) for any page on your site. Adds an “Archives” metabox to the admin edit screen of specific content types (see below) that can be used to easily view existing snapshots. Archiver makes it easy to do all of these things whether you’re editing a post in the admin or viewing it on the front-end. Currently, Archiver’s automated functionality works for the following content types: Posts Pages Users Custom Post Types Categories Tags Custom Taxonomies This means that whenever you edit/save one of these content types, a snapshot of the corresponding front-end page will be auto-generated and archived via the Wayback Machine. As you update your content, the Wayback Machine will automatically keep a visual history of your changes. To view these archives, use the handy admin bar link, or navigate check the Archiver metabox when editing content. If you have content that Archiver doesn’t know how to automatically handle, you can use the admin bar links to automatically trigger a snapshot from any page on your site. Also, let us know and we’ll do our best to add any needed automatic functionality. Also available via Github: https://github.com/MickeyKay/archiver

The built-in WordPress archives widget is great for new blogs, but it doesn’t look as good for more established blogs like WPBeginner. Compact Archives displays the monthly archive of posts in a more compact form rather than the usual long list. It can be shown as a compact block suitable for the body of an archives page: 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec or in an even more compact form to fit a sidebar: 2009: J F M A M J J A S O N D 2008: J F M A M J J A S O N D 2007: J F M A M J J A S O N D or something in between: 2009: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 2008: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 2007: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Compact Archive plugin works seamlessly with Gutenberg Block Editor, Classic Editor, and WordPress widgets. What’s Next If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects: OptinMonster – Get More Email Subscribers with the most popular conversion optimization plugin for WordPress. WPForms – Best Drag & Drop WordPress Form plugin (over 1 million active installs). MonsterInsights – See the Stats that Matter and Grow Your Business with Confidence. Best Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress. SeedProd – Jumpstart your website with the #1 Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Plugin for WordPress. WP Mail SMTP – Improve email deliverability for your contact form with the most popular SMTP plugin for WordPress. Visit WPBeginner to learn from our WordPress Tutorials and find out about other best WordPress plugins. Like all plugins, Compact Archives is only available for self-hosted WordPress sites. So YES you need to switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org in order to use this plugin on your WordPress site. For more details, see the infographic on Self hosted WordPress.org vs Free WordPress.com If you like this plugin, then please leave a good rating. For support just ask the questions here in the support forum. Credits This plugin was originally created by Rob Marsh and Aldolat added a widget for it. WPBeginner adopted the plugin and took the responsibility of keeping it updated.