Smarter Archives
Easily navigate the yearly and monthly archives of your blog.
4(2 reviews)
·100 active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Smarter Archives is a WordPress archive plugin with 100 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 17K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Zippy.
4/52 reviews
100active installs
17K+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
When you use the [smarter-archives] shortcode anywhere in a post or a page, it gets replaced by a listing of every year since you started posting, with a list of links to each month for that year. However, the plugin is smart enough to know if you didn’t create any content in any given month, and doesn’t make a link for that month. See the Screenshots section for an example of it in action.
See the Usage section for a complete list of the arguments the shortcode takes, and how you can use them to customize your archives listing.
The month names are internationalized with the WordPress translation API. A POT file is included, and if you want to translate please feel free to do so and submit a new pull request on GitHub. If you do not know how to use GitHub, you can also contact…
Screenshots
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | false+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.2.5
- Fix issue with setting default options in shortcode
- Updated compatibility up to WordPress 5.5
Contributors
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