[Plugin Intro] Legacy View Switcher — A free plugin that switches your site to a 90s retro view

At the end of a URL, append  ?legacy=1 . That alone switches your live WordPress site into a two-column frameset “90s-style legacy view.”

Legacy View Switcher  is a joke / learning-oriented free plugin for historically recreating web technology. Rather than replacing your theme, it renders through a “display-only template,” so it makes no changes to your existing site.

Do you remember “those old homepages whose one redeeming trait was blazing-fast display”? A text-first frameset layout that opened instantly even on a thin connection. MS Gothic, colorful bullet (●) menus, a table of contents on the left and body text on the right. Legacy View Switcher recreates that feel  without breaking your current site.

🕹️ One-line usage

• ?legacy=1  → legacy view (state remembered via cookie)
• ?legacy=0  → back to normal view

Try it on this very site →  wpmm.net/?legacy=1(to return, use  ?legacy=0）

🧩 Main features

• Two-column frameset display — <frameset cols="18%,82%">  creates the nostalgic layout (toggle on/off in settings). Navigation in the left frame, body text in the right.
• No SEO impact  — you can set the legacy view to noindex so it stays out of search results (recommended on by default)
• Cache-accident prevention — Cache-Control: no-store  prevents the legacy view from being stored in the cache via Cache-Control: no-store
• Retro even while browsing the site  — while the legacy view is active, ?legacy=1  is automatically appended to menu links
• Add a toggle button to the menu  — you can place a “Legacy view toggle” from Appearance → Menus
• Custom-field display support  — an option to also show ACF / postmeta in the legacy view (with permission control)

🎈 Ways to use it

• As a “serious bit of mischief” for April Fools’ or an anniversary campaign
• As teaching material or a demo for experiencing “the history of the web”
• As a small easter egg for retro-web lovers

Note: this plugin does not encourage imitating any specific individual, organization, or existing website. It is purely a tool for the historical recreation of web technology.

💰 Pricing — It’s free

Free, no email registration required to download. Works on WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+ (latest version v1.0.5).

👉 For details and free download Legacy View Switcher page.