Hi,
Valid question indeed. Is there a way to call archived posts on a specific page. I want some posts to be hidden from the main content, but still be able to call them when I need them. Is this even possible ?
Thank you in advance.
I get a lot of requests for how to display Archived posts on the front-end, yet from my POV this was really never the intention of the plugin.
The custom Archived status was meant to be defined as an “after-publish” state for viewing posts in the WP Admin area. Being able to mark posts as “in the past” without Trashing them.
Having Archived content displayed on the front-end to logged-out users seems to me that the content is actually still Published. If we need to restrict _published_ posts to certain users isn’t this what the Private post status is for?
So anyway, not meaning to get all hung up over semantics here, but I do need some more time to mull over these proposed ideas. I don’t like adding a feature to any of my plugins unless I can believe in the meaning and the plugin has a straightforward job to do. And what I mean is that perhaps there are opportunities for “spin-off” plugins related to custom statuses that are not actually best described as “Archived”.
Your feedback is most welcomed on GitHub! https://github.com/fjarrett/archived-post-status/issues
In my case I am not looking for user based restrictions, but general content for all users – meaning exclude specific content from main page, categories, tags, searches etc. This would allow to have lets say 2 separated “main” contents and control over them. While making a post private has more or less the same behavior as marking them as archived, there I am having the same limitation – I can not manually call the post to a page for example with WP Tiles short codes.
I would assume there is some plugin somewhere offering something similar to what I am looking for, but for now after testing like 50 different plugins and scenarios I am yet to find a proper solution. The closes I got to a solution was excluding in the loop a category and then call it on another page, however some plugins that I am using for related posts are actually still connecting them and displaying in the widget area the excluded content from he loop, thus rendering the exclusion useless to a point. In addition after some modifications on the side the loop exclusion stopped working, so I am troubleshooting that now 🙂 – but not sure is worth it unless I modify a whole lot of plugins and that will bring a ton of complications of the setup.
In the end it’s your call how to modify your creation (and btw is an awesome plugin – thank you for that) 🙂 , but I would say that adding such functionality would not harm the straightforwardness of the plugin, but rather allow for more flexibility and control over the archived content.
