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For a lot of blogs, as they age in time, some very good posts get pushed into the depths of your blog into your archives with the only visitors if any to that post come via organic or search engine traffic.

So, how do you do you bring your old posts to the front page and give them exposure. You can change the published date on that post and bring it to your front page. But that is not the best way to do it especially if you have lots of posts and it can get hard to sift through your articles. It is in such a situation where this handly WordPress plugin Archivist comes in.

Plugin Name: Archivist

Plugin Author: Malyfred

Archivist Plugin URL:

http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php/archivist/

Download Archivist Plugin:

http://fredfred.net/logger/dlcount.php?id=skriker&url=http://fredfred.net/skriker/download/wordpress/archivist.zip

How to Install the Archivist Plugin for your WordPress Blog

Copy archivist.php file to your wp-content/plugins directory and activate it.

Changes to be made to the Archivist Plugin

Once you active the Archivist plugin, go to “Plugin Editor” and choose “Archivist.php” to edit

‘number_of_posts’ : Number of posts from the archive that should be shown on the front page. Keep this as the default 1.

‘random‘ : These posts can be selected randomly or sorted by date. Set this as True

‘frontpage_position’ : Where should be selected post(s) inserted on the front page.  Set this as 1 where your  Archive post is inserted after the first post on your home page

‘from_categories’ : It’s possible to limit the categories where the post(s) are selected from. Just insert the list of category IDs. I highly recommend not limiting your posts to certain categories. Keep this as “” and delete anything between the quotes.

‘older_than’ : Defined in days. Select this value as anywhere between 30 - 60.

‘newer_than’ : Defined in days. Keep this as -1 or the default value

‘keep_the_limit_of_posts_per_page’ : Set to “true” if the very last post(s) on the front page should be “removed” from the this page in order to keep the limit of number of posts per page. Set to “false” if these “removed” posts should be just “moved” futher. Only issue is when set “true” that you will “miss” these “removed” posts on the second page:(

‘title‘ : Defines how should be changed the title of selected post(s). There is added “From the archive: ” before the title of each post by default. See below. Delete everything else including anything such as <lang_cs>Z archivu: </lang_cs>. Replace AskStudent with the name of your blog or website.

//%title will be replace with original post title

$archivist_settings['title'] = ‘<lang_en> From AskStudent Archive </lang_en><br />%title’;

You can check out the Archivist plugin in action at AskStudent

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