Archive a news story

The plugin is a simple method of giving access to archive listings via a dropdown menu of years, but doesn’t actually “archive” anything. We have since stopped using the plugin after finding security vulnerabilities a while back.

Are you looking for a way to clear down old stories?

Yes I would stop using the archive plugin. But you’re relatively protected within an intranet, and unless you have a member of staff operating malevolently outside of the civil service code, I wouldn’t say this was high risk.

I’ve been reading research showing that staff rarely trawl back through news archives, and some intranets have removed “News” as a main option. However, for continuity or filling in background information for a particular story or campaign, categorisation and tags can help.

You can use news type, tags and teams to categorise news. Staff will be able to navigate archives by type or tag, and individual news stories will highlight recommended stories based on similar categorisations. You can use the feature news widget to highlight different flavours of news on the homepage, or the aggregator template can showcase news by team.

Old post but someone may find this of use. If you want to display monthly archives of a custom post type (news) then you can use the following code.

Add this to your functions file

function my_custom_post_type_archive_where($where,$args){  
    $post_type  = isset($args['post_type'])  ? $args['post_type']  : 'post';  
    $where = "WHERE post_type = '$post_type' AND post_status = 'publish'";
    return $where;  
}

add_filter( 'getarchives_where','my_custom_post_type_archive_where',10,2);

Then where you want to call the archive list use this code (archive.php sidebar in my case):

<?php $args = array(
    'post_type'    => 'news',
    'type'         => 'monthly',
    'echo'         => 0
);
echo '<ul>'.wp_get_archives($args).'</ul>'; ?>

You can change the ‘type’ to ‘yearly’ if you want to list the posts by year rather than months.

If your outputted links are showing 404’s you will need to make some more modifications but this method works with the theme and permalinks set to ‘Post name’