Viewing Archived Content

Archived Content is viewable to logged in users only

By default archived content is only viewable by logged in users with the read_private_posts capability. This is typically Editor roles and higher.

Logged in users without that capability, or users that are not logged in (public), will see a 404 page when attempting to view archived content.

A future release is planned to provide more control over this behavior (aiming for v0.5.0). For now, below are examples of how to change the plugin's default behavior.

Show Archived Content to All Users

Archived content can be made viewable to all users with some filters.

Add these hooks to your theme’s functions.php file or as an MU plugin:

add_filter( 'aps_status_arg_public', '__return_true' );
add_filter( 'aps_status_arg_private', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'aps_status_arg_exclude_from_search', '__return_false' );

Change which users can view archived content

The plugin defaults to showing content to users with the read_private_posts capability. Change that with the aps_default_read_capability filter.

Add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or as an MU plugin:

add_filter( 'aps_default_read_capability', function( $capability ) {
    return 'aps_user_view_capability'; // change to the capability of your choice
});

Archived Title Label

This plugin automatically adds Archived: to the title of archived content.

You can modify the label text, the separator, whether it appears before or after the title, or disable it entirely.

Follow the examples below, adding the code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or as an MU plugin.

Place the label after the title

add_filter( 'aps_title_label_before', '__return_false' );

Change the separator

The separator is the string between the “Archived” label and the post title, including spaces. When the label appears before the title, the separator is a colon and space :, if the label is placed after the title it is a dash with spaces on each side -.

You can customize the separator with the following filter:

add_filter( 'aps_title_separator', function( $sep ) {
    $sep = ' ~ '; // replace with your separator
    return $sep;
});

Remove the label

add_filter( 'aps_title_label', '__return_false' );