Archive Control
Quickly customize your custom post type and taxonomy archives with a custom headline, image, and editable content. Modify order and pagination.
5(11 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Archive Control is a WordPress archive plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 22K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 16% this week. Top alternative: Zippy.
5/511 reviews
1.0K+active installs
22K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
A quick easy way to customize archive pages (or pages with lists of posts like custom post types, categories, tags, or custom taxonomy terms). You can add editable content before or after the list, you can add a featured image. It also allows you to set up the order and pagination on these pages separately from the rest of your site. Taxonomies can share settings across all terms, or have specific settings per term. Administrators can change the settings, site editors can easily change the content.
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Archive Titles: If your theme is using the_archive_title() function, then you can modify the your archive titles.
- Remove Labels (Archive, Category, Tag, etc.) – Sometimes you just want to get rid of the annoying default words.
- Custom Override – Allow an editor to write something…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Useful frontend for `WP_Query`
by p15h·1 year ago
This plugin usefully exposes orderby and other parameters of WP_Query.
We tried to migrate from php sessions to WP-native random ordering of archive posts with its help, but turns out that doesn’t make posts random across AJAX loads of infinite scrolling. So we had to go back to php sessions.
Really excellent
by Abanys-Concept·5 years ago
The perfect plugin, which meets a real need and works really well
Fantastic plugin
by MattV·5 years ago
The possibility to edit archive pages should be core functionality, but it isn’t. This plugin solves that in an elegant way.
Thanks to the author for making this available to all WordPress users!
Excellent
by Li-An·7 years ago·2 replies
An excellent plugin is you need one of the feature it manages. But it seems no more supported.
AWESOME !!!
by eugenelim88·7 years ago
I love this plugin. This is a godsend. I was pulling my hair out trying to fix the order in the files when I notice this plugin. I give it a try.
Voila! Everything works.
If I could give it 10 stars, I will do so.
Thank you for this amazing plugin. I love it.
Download Trends
Today: 4Yesterday: 9This week: 43Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.1+ requiredTested up to 6.1.10 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.3.4
- Minor cosmetic update
Contributors
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