Can I entirely do away with the Archives on my blogs.

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  agorikos · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 5:20 am

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  Can I entirely do away with the Archives on my blogs?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Dec 3, 2014 at 6:25 am

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  entirely do away with the Archives

  Post, pages, and comments are all archived. You may remove the post archives widget or custom menu that is presently displaying in your sidebar, but do you really intend to remove all archives?

  Absence of usable archives would have a lot of effects, including:

  • Those two search bars you have displayed prominently on the front page will be rendered useless. Keyword search results are archive pages.
  • Tag searches will have no results, since the result of a tag search is an archive page.
  • A post author link would lead nowhere, because the page it ordinarily links to is an archive of posts published by the author named in the link.
  • A link in the comments meta box on the stats page could no longer be used to display an archived list of comments by comment author name.

  From article written by someone who switched to a no archive blog, enticed by the promise of simplicity, and regretted the decision: A Blog without Archives is no Blog at all, I quote:

  No archives, means no cached list of written material to pop up in searches. Do you know how much traffic 397 (at last count, prior to old blog’s demise) posts brought in at the old site? Posts from everything about publishing to me fixing the dryer. That content remained out there years after I wrote it. Someone wondering what happens to all those missing socks that people are invariably subject to when doing laundry would stumble across my post, “All Socks go to Heaven”.