Archive disabler allows you to "turn off" some of WordPress' built in archive pages.
As of April 2026, Archive Disabler is a WordPress archives plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Disable Author Archives.
Archive Disabler allows you to disable WordPress’ default archive pages. It does this by either redirecting those archive pages or causing them to throw a 404 error depending on your settings.
You may want to do this if, for instance, you didn’t want to expose post format archives to the world. Instead you could redirect them to the home page of your site.
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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