Title: Plugin install fails
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Plugin install fails

 *  Resolved [Sarah Gooding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pollyplummer/)
 * (@pollyplummer)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-fails-1/)
 * I’ve tried to install this on multiple sites but every time I get this message:
 * > The package could not be installed. No valid plugins were found.
   > Plugin install failed.
 * Any idea what’s up?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Frankie Jarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fjarrett/)
 * (@fjarrett)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-fails-1/#post-5694784)
 * Sorry, Sarah! It looks like there was a problem with the last SVN push.
 * I’ve just pushed it up again and everything looks good in SVN trunk now.
 * Please try again and let me know!
 *  Thread Starter [Sarah Gooding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pollyplummer/)
 * (@pollyplummer)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-fails-1/#post-5694785)
 * Thanks, all is working now 🙂 Taking it for a test run.
 *  Plugin Author [Frankie Jarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fjarrett/)
 * (@fjarrett)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-fails-1/#post-5694786)
 * Great!
 * Do let me know what you think and of any suggestions you might have 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Sarah Gooding](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pollyplummer/)
 * (@pollyplummer)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-fails-1/#post-5694804)
 * The only thing I noticed is that there’s no Preview button for the archived post
   status and the “view post” button issues a 404. This makes it tough to edit an
   archived post in the future and send it back to published status. You would have
   no way of previewing it unless you send it back to a draft, which is ok but not
   sure if it might be confusing.
 * Anyway, awesome plugin, I wrote a review here:
 * [http://wptavern.com/archive-wordpress-content-with-the-archived-post-status-plugin](http://wptavern.com/archive-wordpress-content-with-the-archived-post-status-plugin)
 *  Plugin Author [Frankie Jarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fjarrett/)
 * (@fjarrett)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-fails-1/#post-5694842)
 * Thank you very much for the write-up!
 * You’re right, that is a tricky one. I think of Draft as a “pre-publish” status,
   whereas Archived is a “post-published” status. So that is why the Preview button
   is gone.
 * Your observation actually leads me to think that an Archived post should not 
   editable at all. That would eliminate the urge to preview changes, because changes
   cannot be made. It would also reinforce the semantic purpose behind the status
   of being a “post-published” state.
 * I’ve created an issue for it here: [https://github.com/fjarrett/archived-post-status/issues/2](https://github.com/fjarrett/archived-post-status/issues/2)
 * Thanks again!

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/archived-post-status/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3103140)
 * [Archive Content with Archived Post Status](https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/)
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 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Frankie Jarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fjarrett/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-install-fails-1/#post-5694842)
 * Status: resolved