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Archiveless #10 in SEO & Metadata

WordPress plugin to hide posts from archives (lists)

by Alley Interactive · github.com/alleyinteractive/archiveless · website

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Install

No release zip yet. The repository archive installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow:

wp plugin install https://github.com/alleyinteractive/archiveless/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

Also on Packagist as alleyinteractive/archiveless:

composer require alleyinteractive/archiveless

From the readme

Archiveless Excludes specific WordPress posts from archives (homepage, search, date/author/term archives). Adds meta to the head to restrict inclusion in web searches. Background This plugin provides a way for content to live inside WordPress and still be accessible by a direct URL but appear hidden everywhere else. Useful for culling older content that shouldn't appear in search results because it is untimely. Usage By default, the plugin will prevent archiveless posts from appearing on the page. This is limited to the main query of the page. It will not affect other queries by default. Archiveless posts can be excluded from normal queries by passing excludearchiveless: Handling archiveless posts with getposts() calls Queries made with getposts() will always exclude archiveless posts by default since getposts() sets a default poststatus of publish. To include archiveless posts, you can specify the poststatus of any, declare the poststatus explicitly with [ 'publish', 'archiveless' ], or pass includearchiveless set to true: Install The plugin includes uncompiled Javascript. You can install the plugin by tracking the main-built branch or by using a -built tag. Otherwise,

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Releases

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v1.2.0Oct 22, 2025
v1.1.1May 25, 2023
v1.1.0Oct 7, 2022
v1.0.0Aug 24, 2022