WP Admin Filter By Year

WordPress plugin that adds a year dropdown filter in the admin for custom post type list screens.

Features

• Year dropdown on edit screens (edit.php) for non–built-in post types
• Year options respect active filters (e.g. taxonomy such as author)
• Other query params (taxonomy, pagination, etc.) are preserved when filtering by year

Installation

1. Download or clone this repository
2. Copy the wp-admin-filter-by-year folder into wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate the plugin under Plugins (or via WP-CLI: wp plugin activate wp-admin-filter-by-year)

Requirements

• WordPress 5.x+
• PHP 7.4+

Publishing to GitHub

1. Create a new repository on GitHub (empty, no README)
2. In a terminal, from the plugin folder:

cd wp-content/plugins/wp-admin-filter-by-year
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR_USER/YOUR_REPO.git
git push -u origin main

3. Replace YOUR_USER and YOUR_REPO with your GitHub username and repository name.

To install the plugin from GitHub on another site:

cd wp-content/plugins
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USER/YOUR_REPO.git wp-admin-filter-by-year

License

GPL v2 or later