Smart Archive Page Remove
Completely remove unwanted Archive Pages from your Blog
4.9(59 reviews)
·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Smart Archive Page Remove is a WordPress archive page plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 59 reviews. It has been downloaded 95K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 8% this week. Top alternative: Archive Control.
4.9/559 reviews
7.0K+active installs
95K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
The Smart Archive Page Remove Plugin allows you to remove Archive Pages automatically generated by WordPress
Retired Plugin
Development, maintenance and support of this plugin has been retired in october 2023. You can use this plugin as long as is works for you.
There will be no more updates and I won’t answer any support questions. Thanks for your understanding.
Feel free to fork this plugin.
Usage
WordPress automatically generates Author based, Category based, Tag based and Date based (daily, monthly and yearly) archives for your posts. Even if you do not want to use these Pages – e.g. you don’t want to have an author based archive page on a single author blog or you don’t want to have a daily archive because you don’t post several times a day – they…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very good
by colfer·2 years ago
Do what I need very well.
Works well with limitations
by smellpress·3 years ago
As far as removing archive pages, it does exactly as described on the tin. Author, category, tag, daily, monthly and yearly archive pages can all be disabled independently of each other.
You’ll have to make the appropriate modifications to your theme to avoid broken links, but that’s pretty much to be expected.
It doesn’t remove those pages from the sitemap either (the one generated by vanilla WordPress). See Bence’s code snippet on the plugin’s forums (search for “sitemap”) if you want to achieve that.
Easy with no php
by hummelsonline·3 years ago
Great plugin. I do nothing with php code on my sites. This works!
Works great
by plutopian·3 years ago
Does what it says on the tin
Very useful
by jola1212·3 years ago
Very useful
Download Trends
Today: 8Yesterday: 10This week: 55Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.3.8 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.1
89.1%
v5.0
7.2%
Other
3.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
5.1.3 (2024-04-17) URGENT BUGFIX
- Bugfix after Cleanup
Contributors
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