Title: Archive Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Archive * [pepperpod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pepperpod/) * (@pepperpod) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-1-2/) * Forgive me if this is a very basic question as I’m new to both WordPress and blogging! I understand that posts will be archived automatically according to month/year, but do the original posts all remain on the main page regardless of age? If so, is there a way to prevent posts from being visible on the main page when they are older than a certain length of time? * Thanks. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-1-2/#post-450434) * In theory there is: admin > Options > Reading: Show at most posts/day Warning! There have been reports about this (by day setting) feature not always working properly… * And if you are new it is always a good idea to go around the admin panel and check out all the options you have, in other words: learn the tool you are using! * Thread Starter [pepperpod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pepperpod/) * (@pepperpod) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-1-2/#post-450452) * Thanks for the suggestion. I’d already looked at that reading option and found that it broke up the main page into chunks of “Next” pages, but that’s not really what I had in mind. I was hoping there might be some way of not displaying postings in the main page(s) which were flagged as older than, say, 3 months, but retaining the option of still seeing them in the Archive section. If that’s not possible, can posts be moved manually out of the main page into the Archive section? * Thanks. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-1-2/#post-450455) * Starting with the last question – NO. Posts are ALWAYS in the same place, you don’t move them 🙂 * You can simply remove the next/prev code from your index if that bothers you ( though the navigability of your site will be diminished) * Where the Next?prev is included it depends on how your WP is set up. If I have 14 posts and the Reading options is set to 14 (or higher) – there is no Next. If is set to 10 – the Next will appear. * If yours is set to 30 days, and you have posts older than that – the Next thing appears. Isn’t it the expected behavior? And after clickcing to display the “ next chunk” of 30 days (i.e. posts 31-60 days old). * Thread Starter [pepperpod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pepperpod/) * (@pepperpod) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-1-2/#post-450459) * OK Moshu, I think I understand what you’re saying. If, for example, I remove the next/prev code from the index and set the reading option to 3 months, that will display all postings up to 3 months old, and nothing older, in the main page, right? Anything older than 3 months wont show, but will still be viewable from the Archives, correct? * That will achieve what I want in a slightly different way from what I was expecting. I thought maybe there was something in the code which calculated the age of a post, and if the age was greater than a certain value, the post wouldn’t be displayed in the main page, even though it was still in the database, and would be viewable in the Archive. * Thanks again, and apologies for my naivety! Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Archive’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [archives](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/archives/) * [move](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/move/) * [visible](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/visible/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [pepperpod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pepperpod/) * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-1-2/#post-450459) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics