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Archiver

Automatically create Wayback Machine snapshots of your site when you update your content.

By Mickey Kay·Post·Free
4.5(6 reviews)
·50 active installs·Updated 9 years ago
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As of April 2026, Archiver is a WordPress post plugin with 50 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.

4.5/56 reviews
50active installs
4.8K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016

Overview

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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 t…

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Ratings & Reviews

4.56 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0.5

  • Add missing max count limit on metabox output of snapshots.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Mickey KayMickey Kay
Plugin Info
Version
1.0.5
Last Updated
Jul 22, 2016
WP Requires
3.5+
Tested Up To
4.1.42
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
50
Downloads
4.8K+
Added
Jun 20, 2016
Business
Free

Tags

postarchivecontentmachinewayback

Developer

M
Mickey Kay
6 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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