Title: Basic archive woes
Last modified: May 10, 2020

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# Basic archive woes

 *  Resolved [hj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hj/)
 * (@hj)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-archive-woes/)
 * I’m having real trouble with basic archive page (in fact PODS archives seem to
   be a big issue judging by a Google search!)
 * In this support post – [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-archive-or-an-other-theme-template-to-display-pods/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-archive-or-an-other-theme-template-to-display-pods/)–
   Jim True says…
 * > If you want your custom fields you’ve added to show or anything else, you either
   > have to modify the themes’ archive.php (or index.php), create an archive-<post-
   > type>.php for your theme or create a Pods Template and ‘insert’ the missing
   > fields using the Auto Templates capability.
 * OK, that’s three options:
    1. Modify the theme archive.php page (sounds codey
   to me!) 2. Create a custom archive.php page in the theme files (again, sounds
   codey to me!) 3. Create a PODS template and use the auto-template capability,(
   hurrah, not so codey!)
 * So I choose option 3, create a PODS template and then use the auto-template capability.
   I write my template (some basic html + magic tags) and in the auto-templator 
   select my template for archive use. ALSO…in my pod’s ‘Advanced Options’ tab, 
   I have checked ‘Enable Archive Page’..which (quote) “creates an archive page 
   with a list of items in this custom post type”.
 * I think I’ve followed the instructions pretty closely. All saved and updated.
 * But can I view an archive page anywhere? Not for love nor money! No archive page
   has been created in the WP admin pages section. And calling mysite.com/archive.
   php just gets a ‘not found’ message.
 * Where’s my archive? Having checked the ‘Enable Archive Page’ in advanced options,
   I’m expecting either…
    1. a special archive page to have been created in the 
   pages section of WP admin. Or… 2. a special archive.php page to have been inserted
   into my theme’s file structure (or maybe some extra coded injected into the default
   archive.php file)
 * Neither seems to have happened. Where is my archive? !!
 * cheers
    HJ

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Jim True](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimtrue/)
 * (@jimtrue)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-archive-woes/#post-12846138)
 * If it’s not working for you, you probably have a theme conflict
    [https://docs.pods.io/faqs/plugin-theme-conflicts/#masthead](https://docs.pods.io/faqs/plugin-theme-conflicts/#masthead)
 * You would call the archive with the post-type slug, ie books would be under my
   site/books/
 * If you override the slug on the Advanced Options, that will obviously change 
   the archive.
 * Also verify you’re not using something that you may have created as a page or
   post because slugs must be unique.
 * Some knowledge of how WordPress works is required to work with Pods. If you’re
   not comfortable with the slugs, permalinks, post types, etc, you probably want
   to watch: [https://docs.pods.io/videos/grow-beyond-posts-pages-introduction-pods-framework/](https://docs.pods.io/videos/grow-beyond-posts-pages-introduction-pods-framework/)
    -  This reply was modified 6 years ago by [Jim True](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimtrue/).

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