6 Best Advanced Posts/Page Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Advanced Posts/Page has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 6 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 6 closest alternatives to Advanced Posts/Page
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Simple Yearly Archive
Closest match4.7 (30) 6,000+ active installsSimple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.
Shares the archive, archives tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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4.1 (21) 3,000+ active installsThis plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapse the set of months for each year and posts for each month in the archive listing of your …
Shares the archives tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated February 12, 2026.
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4.6 (25) 700+ active installsMap your archives to pages. Map 404 and term archives as well.
Shares the archives tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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4.8 (45) 3,000+ active installsA JS widget (can be used in posts) for displaying an archive list with some effects.
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated April 3, 2026.
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4.5 (151) 6,000+ active installsAuto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since April 16, 2024.
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4.9 (36) 5,000+ active installsUse an "Archived" status to unpublish content without having to trash it.
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, last updated February 17, 2026.
Switching from Advanced Posts/Page: common questions
What is the best alternative to Advanced Posts/Page?
Simple Yearly Archive is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 6,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Advanced Posts/Page alternative has the most users?
Simple Yearly Archive, with 6,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Advanced Posts/Page alternative is rated highest?
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt, rated 4.5 out of 5 by 151 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Advanced Posts/Page alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Advanced Posts/Page score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Advanced Posts/Page on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Simple Yearly Archive is the closest match to Advanced Posts/Page by the data we track, and Simple Yearly Archive has the widest reach with 6,000+ active installs. Custom Query Blocks shipped the most recent release, on August 26, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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