About this plugin
Cosmonorma Real Persistent Archive (Cosmonorma RPA) adds a durable identification layer to WordPress content and media.
Instead of relying only on internal numeric WordPress IDs, URLs, slugs, or filenames, Cosmonorma RPA can assign permanent human-readable archive IDs such as:
POST-001-260923 PAGE-001-260923 IMG-001-260923 DOC-001-260923
Core principles:
- Archive IDs are assigned once and remain unchanged.
- Posts, pages, media attachments, and public custom post types can use separate configurable series.
- Media can be separated into image, document, audio, video, and other profiles.
- Existing content is not numbered retroactively unless an editor explicitly assigns an ID.
- Frontend display is optional and independent from the archive function.
- Visible media labels can optionally be prefixed with the corresponding image, document, audio, video, or other-media Archive ID.
- Each individual object can inherit, force, or suppress frontend display.
- The backend Archive Registry supports search, pagination, type filtering, and deterministic ordering.
- Registry records remain preserved even if the original WordPress object is later deleted.
- Cosmonorma RPA data is preserved by default across plugin uninstall/reinstall.
- An explicit destructive uninstall option can remove all Cosmonorma RPA registry data, counters, settings, and Cosmonorma RPA post metadata.
Archive ID patterns support these tokens:
{prefix} {number} {date}
The number token is mandatory.
Frontend positions include:
- Before content
- Below post meta
- In post meta line
- After content
- Before media label (image, document, audio, video, and other media)
Cosmonorma RPA follows the WordPress interface language. org language-pack system; if no translation is available, WordPress uses the English source strings.
Shortcodes
[cosmonorma_rpa_archive_id]
Optional attributes:
[cosmonorma_rpa_archive_id id="123"] [cosmonorma_rpa_archive_id label="Archive ID:"]<h3>Developer API</h3>
Template function:
cosmonorma_rpa_get_archive_id( $post_id )
Output helper:
cosmonorma_rpa_the_archive_id( $post_id )
Filters:
cosmonorma_rpa_generated_archive_id cosmonorma_rpa_archive_id_html
Action:
cosmonorma_rpa_archive_id_assigned<h3>Privacy</h3>
Cosmonorma RPA does not contact external services and does not include tracking. Archive data is stored in the local WordPress database.