hello, thanks for your reply
yes indeed I did create the archives.php. In fact I took the one from the Default Theme and added a few things to make it work on my own theme.
I just went over the process again and recreated a page based on this template
you can now view the main archive page at
https://guillaume.belfiore.fr/history/
What I would like is a simple list of articles on a page. For some reasons it seems that sometimes the archives “are” being displayed and narrowed by months or category. For example try clicking on “December”.
However I don’t want to be seeing this on the homepage.
I tried going back to the default permalink structure but it did the same thing.
Also I have tried 3 or 4 different plugins like Compact Archives, Extended Live Archives or even Custom Query String but none would work…
could this be related to a .htaccess file (which I DID NOT make but might create)?
Any ideas?
thanks