The Smart Archive Page Remove Plugin allows you to remove Archive Pages automatically generated by WordPress
Originally created by Peter Raschendorfer, maintained by WP User Manager since October 2026.
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Usage
WordPress automatically generates Author based, Category based, Tag based and Date based (daily, monthly and yearly) archives for your posts. Even if you do not want to use these Pages – e.g. you don’t want to have an author based archive page on a single author blog or you don’t want to have a daily archive because you don’t post several times a day – they exist and they can be accessed by their automated generated URL.
The smart Archive Page Remove Plugin adds an item ‘Archive Pages’ in the ‘Settings’ section of your WordPress Admin. Here you can select which Archive Pages you want to remove. Removed Archive Pages are no longer accessible and cause a 404 page not found error. Removed author, category and tag archives are also left out of the WordPress sitemap (wp-sitemap.xml). They can be restored anytime.
Plugin Privacy Information
- This plugin does not set cookies
- This plugin does not collect or store any data
- This plugin does not send any data to external servers