Title: Ability to Archive
Last modified: October 25, 2016

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# Ability to Archive

 *  Resolved [mlaw93](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlaw93/)
 * (@mlaw93)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ability-to-archive/)
 * I have someone with the Editor role, but when they go to change the page status“
   Archive” is not in the dropdown. Any ideas what the problem is? Or if thats how
   its supposed to be, is there a way to change the default behavior?

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 *  Plugin Author [Frankie Jarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fjarrett/)
 * (@fjarrett)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ability-to-archive/#post-8517286)
 * In order to Archive a post:
 * 1. The current post status must be Published.
    2. The user must have the `read_private_posts`
   capability.
 * Editors have this capability by default, but it is possible to change this with
   plugins like [Members](https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/).

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 * [Archive Content with Archived Post Status](https://wordpress.org/plugins/archived-post-status/)
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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Frankie Jarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fjarrett/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ability-to-archive/#post-8517286)
 * Status: resolved