Title: Archiving old content
Last modified: November 10, 2016

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# Archiving old content

 *  [akubrin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akubrin/)
 * (@akubrin)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-old-content/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stanordan/)
 * (@stanordan)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-old-content/#post-8434165)
 * 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](https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies).
   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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