Archiving old content

  • akubrin

    (@akubrin)


    8 years ago

    Hi, WordPressers,
    I run a site that is a few years old and that is beginning to accumulate a fair bit of old content. As a result, the site dashboard is getting pretty cluttered, particularly in the pages area. The media library is also getting cluttered.
    I’m looking for a way to archive this old stuff without deleting it. The content is still valuable to our community; I just want it out of the way.
    In short, I have two goals:
    –Clean up the WP dashboard
    –Keep the content locatable by search so that it is out of the way, but not ultimately lost
    Can anyone recommend a method to accomplish these goals?
    This problem can’t be unique. It’s an issue news sites would face, so someone must have an idea about it.
    Thanks, everyone.
    Andy

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  • stanordan

    (@stanordan)

    Dealing with older content is certainly an issue a lot of users must face. I am not sure exactly how major news sites do it, but as a general purpose solution you can consider creating a custom taxonomy. You can name this taxonomy something like “archives”, for example, and assign it to the older posts and pages. Or, you can assign a taxonomy for “new” posts. Either way, you can use this as a method of filtering posts and pages, so you don’t have to do deal with a full load of content at once.

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