How to link to main archive page?

  • I can’t seem to work out how to link to the main archive page… all I can figure out is how to link to the archive for a specific month.

    Any help!?

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  • I think you misunderstand what a WordPress ‘archive’ really is. It is not an archive in the traditional sense of a separate group of items. It is only a listing of posts that are related in some way – by post date, or category, or tag, or ….

    So, there is not really a ‘main archive page’. A post can be in many ‘archives’: one by date, several by different categories, etc.

    You can create a page and use a template to list whatever collection of posts you want on that page.

    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    Oh ok…. fair enough. Thanks for the answer! ??

    You are welcome.

    tigtog

    (@tigtoggmailcom)

    It is possible to create a page-template to display your archives in particular ways, and many themes include this option.

    This is an old article (WordPress version 1.5) but it should give you the idea.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_an_Archive_Index

    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    Thanks for that – will give it a look! ??

    https://www.rvoodoo.com/explore/

    here’s an example of my archive page. I sort posts in a variety of ways.

    This was very simple really. I did it in about an hour. Just made a special page template for the archive page (wide content, no sidebar)

    Then just googling ‘wordpress archive page’ gave me many tutorials, which I combined to come up with my page

    Thread Starter gutterboy333

    (@gutterboy333)

    Excellent – thanks!

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