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Custom Post Type Archives

Enables custom post type archives that will support both paging and feeds. All fully customizable.

By rATRIJS·Archive·Free
5(1 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 14 years ago
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As of April 2026, Custom Post Type Archives is a WordPress archive plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 23K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Zippy.

5/51 reviews
200active installs
23K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010

Overview

Since version 3.1 WordPress has it’s own implementation of custom post type archives so you can create them without this plugin – visit this page for more info -> https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types. Nevertheless I do believe that this plugin is more flexible and you can still use it and it will still work as expected.

This plugin will enable custom post type archives (also yearly, monthly and daily) together with feeds, customizable titles and paging.

These archives will work the same way as the category or tag archives work when you go to, for example, http://example.com/category/example.

WordPress 3.0 new custom post type feature is awesome. The only problem is – it lacks archive functionality for these post types so you can’t easely assign one URL to just…

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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1
PHPfalse+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.5.1

  • Fixed a bug in ‘wp_get_post_type_archives’ functions. It should now support $format = ‘option’ output type.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
1.5.1
Last Updated
Aug 8, 2011
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
3.2.1
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
200
Downloads
23K+
Added
Aug 26, 2010
Business
Free

Tags

archivepost typepost typescustom post typecustom post types

Developer

R
rATRIJS
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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