Archive.php …please explain

(Hi from NB, first of all. ?? )

In relation to how you have your site set up specifically, that archives template is for the archives of the blog itself, if you wanted an archived listing of posts to show up on their own seperate Page, within WP.

It’s more to be used like this.

archive.php is a template file. A decent theme designer (who knows how WP works) would never link directly to a template file!

Andrea thanks, i read that info and it helps. It seems that most of that stuff ie:archives..is in the sidebar already.
Moshu thanks for that also..I think I will just change it to an html page…I wonder if I can change it to a page in WP so that I can still use the theme design on that page..hhmm
More i dig the deeper I get..

If there is an archive.php file in the theme then WP “knows” about it and will use it to display the monthly archives view or the category archives view. You don’t have to do anything with that file and you don’t have to link to it – the links to monthly archives and category listings are created also by WP.

Useful reading; Template_Hierarchy

moshu – that’s what I was explaining to her in terms she could understand – because on her site there’s a page called “archives” and I think what she was asking was how or if she could take the old page and stuff it in WP.

nevermore, just take the content of your old archives (they are links to and of images), not any of the page formatting, and create a new Page in WP, calling it whatever you want. (as a page title, not a filename) It will automagically use the same theme as the blog.

Like for example, go to Write…Page… and in the title field put “landscapes”. In the body, put the image links to the landscapes you did. Click “create new page”.

Presto! You don’t have to mess with the files at all, WP does the work.

In the sidebar of the blog, it will list Pages, so you do should not have to create or add the links yourself.

Does that help?

andrea_r,
you are talking about the aechives.php Page template (notice the plural -s at the end!)…
while I was talking about the archive.php template.
Those are two different things! Please, don’t mix them ??