Title: Archiver
Author: Mickey Kay
Published: <strong>June 20, 2016</strong>
Last modified: July 22, 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Archiver

 By [Mickey Kay](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mcguive7/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/archiver.1.0.5.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/archiver/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/archiver/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/archiver/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/archiver/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/archiver/)

## Description

**Like this plugin? Please consider [leaving a 5-star review](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/archiver).**

Archiver integrates your website with the [Wayback Machine](https://archive.org/web/)
to create easy-to-view snapshots of your site over time, giving you a fully navigable
visual history of the changes you’ve made.

The plugin gives you some handy tools to easily trigger and view snapshots:

 * Automatically creates a Wayback Machine snapshot when you update your content.
 * Allows you to manually trigger a Wayback Machine snapshot of any page on your
   site using the admin.
 * Allows you to easily view your site’s Wayback Machine archives (all snapshots)
   for any page on your site.
 * Adds an “Archives” metabox to the admin edit screen of specific content types(
   see below) that can be used to easily view existing snapshots.

Archiver makes it easy to do all of these things whether you’re editing a post in
the admin or viewing it on the front-end. Currently, Archiver’s automated functionality
works for the following content types:

 * Posts
 * Pages
 * Users
 * Custom Post Types
 * Categories
 * Tags
 * Custom Taxonomies

This means that whenever you edit/save one of these content types, a snapshot of
the corresponding front-end page will be auto-generated and archived via the Wayback
Machine. As you update your content, the Wayback Machine will automatically keep
a visual history of your changes. To view these archives, use the handy admin bar
link, or navigate check the Archiver metabox when editing content.

If you have content that Archiver doesn’t know how to automatically handle, you 
can use the admin bar links to automatically trigger a snapshot from any page on
your site. Also, let us know and we’ll do our best to add any needed automatic functionality.

Also available via Github: https://github.com/MickeyKay/archiver

## Screenshots

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 * Admin bar links to view and manually trigger snapshots.
 * [[
 * “Archives” metabox that shows all existing snapshots when editing a post/page/
   term/etc.

## Installation

 1. Install the plugin.
 2. Use the “Archives” metabox to view snapshots of content you are editing.
 3. Use the admin bar links to view and trigger snapshots.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Funciona parcialmente en versiones 5.4 de WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/aparentemente-parece-no-funcionar-en-versiones-5-4-de-wordpress/)󠁿

 [SINZETA](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sinzeta/) April 20, 2020

Hemos estado probando este plugin en la última versión de wordpress hasta la fecha
de hoy. Y parece que sigue funcionando con algunos retrasos en hacer capturas en
la Wayback Machine Además un usuario, hace ya un año, indicaba que este plugin ya
no muestra las capturas realizadas en la Wayback Machine debido a los numerosos 
cambios de WordPress. Tras 3 años sin actualizar, podemos decir que sigue funcionando
al menos en la funcionalidad de las capturas en archive.org

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### 󠀁[Still works with v 5.1 and Gutenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-with-v-5-1-and-gutenberg/)󠁿

 [Megan](https://profiles.wordpress.org/megabyterose/) February 23, 2019

I was curious if this plugin was still working (with both changes to Wayback Machine&
to WP). The only thing that doesn’t appear to be working is once I’ve archived a
post/page/etc, it doesn’t appear under the Archives section in the editor screen.
It still displays previous snapshots, though. And I confirmed that the snapshots
were at least added. Really cool idea for a plugin! (Actually was going to create
a very similar version of this that runs on the save_post hook for my own site then
found this plugin.)

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### 󠀁[Thanks for the functionality!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thanks-for-the-functionality/)󠁿

 [Leokoo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/leokoo/) November 3, 2016

Appreciate the plugin 🙂 Keep it up!

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### 󠀁[Works like a charm](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-like-a-charm-178/)󠁿

 [Abhinav](https://profiles.wordpress.org/abhinav4848/) September 19, 2016

The archiver option can be found in the dashboard toolbar at the top of the screen
while logged in.

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### 󠀁[Profoundly good archiver](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/profoundly-good-archiver/)󠁿

 [shrewdies](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shrewdies/) September 3, 2016

There are two very valuable features to this plugin. 1. As the previous reviewer
says, it’s a massive time saver. But, more than that, it’s reliable. I am not. I
forget to manually archive new posts and changes. With this plugin, there’s nothing
to forget – it gives me automatic archives on new posts and updates. 2. It just 
works. All the best WordPress Plugins do, but many are too complicated. Archiver
is simple. Install and activate. I network enabled it on my MultiSite installation.
I haven’t tested every individual site yet. But, it’s flawless on the first two 
sites. For anyone unfamiliar with the WayBack Machine: WordPress Revisions remind
me what text I changed. But, the WayBack Machine tells me about those styling tweaks,
new plugins, and all the other stuff that change what your visitor sees. Imagine
how valuable that is next time you wonder why your earnings dropped (or went up!).
Archiver has more value than any so-called SEO plugin. It looks to me like it’s 
from a developer who lives in the real world. Can you tell? I’m very happy with 
Archiver. 😀

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Huge timesaver](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-timesaver-7/)󠁿

 [Amanda & Steve](https://profiles.wordpress.org/supersonic/) September 3, 2016

Perfect, as I was manually submitting my blog pages to the Wayback machine. Huge
timesaver!

 [ Read all 7 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/archiver/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Archiver” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Mickey Kay ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mcguive7/)

[Translate “Archiver” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/archiver)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/archiver/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/archiver/), or subscribe 
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/archiver/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/archiver/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.5

 * Add missing max count limit on metabox output of snapshots.

#### 1.0.4

 * Fix error 500 error due to calling method on non-object.

#### 1.0.3

 * Remove unreliable localhost detection.

#### 1.0.2

 * Fix: fix issue in which directly referencing array index on function call caused
   issues in PHP < 5.4.

#### 1.0.1

 * Add max archive display count.

#### 1.0.0

 * First release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.5**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/archiver/)
 * Tags
 * [archive](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/archive/)[content](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/content/)
   [machine](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/machine/)[post](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
   [wayback](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wayback/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/archiver/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.5 out of 5 stars.

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 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/archiver/reviews/?filter=3)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Mickey Kay ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mcguive7/)

## Support

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