Difference between archive and post archive

Anonymous

#50639

Hardly critical, but I’m tring to undestand what the difference is between ‘archive’ and ‘post archive’ in the Display results method. I can’t work it out! Could you explain?

Thanks

Trevor

#50644

How much do you know about how WordPress works and structures its data and the terminology WordPress uses?

Am I OK to assume very little?

An Archive page in general is any page whose main content is multiple posts placed onto the page by way of a programming loop that filters and sorts through the posts table of the WordPress database. These pages are sometimes called multi-post pages. It is distinguished in this regard from a single page in that a single page contains a specific post or page. Note that an archive page can end up having only one post on it, or none, if that is all the filtering finds.

A Post Type Archive page is a WordPress generated page that is the default page for the display of the posts of a Post Type. WordPress ships by default with just Posts, often called a blog, and so, if you have set up a separate blog page instead of using the home page as the blog page, the blog page is the Post Type Archives page for normal posts.

If you set up Custom Post Types (as you often should), the each will have its own Post Type Archives page, as defined by combining your domain name with the slug name for the Custom Post Type.

Anonymous

#50657

Thanks.
Mine are set up as post archives, but I wasn’t sure what the difference was in practical terms. I didn’t know they had different archive pages..

Now I do!

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