Ajax Archive Calendar

57 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With roughly 1,000 active installs, the plugin has a small but established user base that prevents the popularity score from dragging the overall grade down.

Update Freshness

14/25

The plugin was updated on 2025-07-28 and tested against WordPress 6.8.5, which is a positive sign, though the low install count and missing PHP requirement make long-term maintenance harder to gauge.

User Rating

11/15

A score of 90 out of 100 from only 4 ratings is encouraging on its face, but the sample is too small to draw reliable conclusions about real-world satisfaction.

Support Health

8/15

There are zero support threads and zero resolutions, meaning the developer has either not been asked anything publicly or the channel is not being used, so users have limited fallback if they hit problems.

WP Compatibility

11/15

Compatibility scores reasonably well given recent testing against WordPress 6.8.5 and a low minimum version of 3.0, though the absence of a declared PHP requirement is a gap.

Scores higher than 6% of indexed plugins

About

Ajax Archive Calendar .

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.5/5

Last Updated 2025-07-28 9:12am GMT

Requires WordPress 3.0+

Tested Up To 6.8.8

Security History

1 known vulnerability, all patched

1 Medium

Most recent: October 16, 2023

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What It Does

Ajax Archive Calendar displays your WordPress post archives in a navigable calendar widget, allowing visitors to click on dates to reveal the posts published that day without a page reload. It is built primarily to browse historical blog or news content through a date-based visual interface rather than a standard monthly list. The plugin relies on jQuery and AJAX to fetch posts dynamically when a date is selected.

Who It's For

This plugin is a reasonable fit for bloggers, news sites, and online publications with long-running archives where readers may want to explore content by publication date. It works best on sites with frequent dated posts where a visual calendar view adds value beyond a simple archive sidebar.

Who Should Skip It

Sites with fewer than a few hundred posts, or those needing event scheduling, booking, or reservation functionality, should skip this plugin entirely. Anyone looking for a full events calendar should go straight to a dedicated solution like The Events Calendar.

The Bottom Line

Ajax Archive Calendar does one narrow thing, browsing dated post archives via a calendar, and it appears to work on modern WordPress, but the tiny install base, near-empty support record, and missing PHP requirement prevent a strong recommendation. The overall quality score of 60.18 reflects a plugin that is functional but unproven at scale. Try it on a staging site first and confirm it fits your theme before committing.

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