10 Best Simple Yearly Archive Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Simple Yearly Archive has 6,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 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 10 closest alternatives to Simple Yearly Archive
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4.8 (36) 3,000+ active installsDisplay content with full control over selection and layout. Lightweight and compatible with any theme or page builder.
Shares the wp_query tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 16 days ago.
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SrbTransLatin – Serbian Latinisation
4.6 (38) 2,000+ active installsSrbTransLatin plugin allows you to use both Cyrillic and Latin scripts on your website.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since December 13, 2023.
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4.6 (37) 6,000+ active installsWPML Multilingual for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss allows BuddyPress and BuddyBoss sites to run fully multilingual using the WPML plugin.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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5.0 (20) 5,000+ active installsImport multilingual data from WPML into Polylang.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 28 days ago.
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4.9 (36) 9,000+ active installsWPML Widgets is a simple to use extension to add a language selector dropdown to your widgets.
Shares the wpml tag on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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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. About half the 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. 700+ installs against 6,000+, 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. About half the 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. A similar number of 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. A similar number of installs, last updated February 17, 2026.
Switching from Simple Yearly Archive: common questions
What is the best alternative to Simple Yearly Archive?
Advanced Views for Custom Fields and Posts is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 3,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Simple Yearly Archive alternative has the most users?
WPML Widgets, with 9,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Simple Yearly Archive 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 Simple Yearly Archive 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 Simple Yearly Archive 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 Simple Yearly Archive 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
Advanced Views for Custom Fields and Posts is the closest match to Simple Yearly Archive by the data we track, and WPML Widgets has the widest reach with 9,000+ 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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