archive

Archive is a historical organizer of content.

It organizes posts from your website or blog into a historical hierarchy that is defined by date (month), by subject, category, author or by other parameters.

An archives page presents multiple ways for visitors to find content on your website.

By helping visitors find what they are looking for, you can retain visitors on your website longer and increase page’s views considerably.

The quickest way to see if your activated WordPress theme has an archives template is to create or edit a page (not a blog post!).

On the right hand side of the post editor you will see the Page Attributes menu. This allows you to assign a custom page template to any WordPress page.

If your activated WordPress theme already has an archives page template, you will see an option for an archives template.

The name of the archives template depends on what it has been named in template itself. Usually, it is named Archive or Archives.

Unfortunately, not every WordPress theme comes with an archives page template.

However, you can add it by your own.

All you have to do is to create an archives page template and then assign it to a page.

If no archives template exists, you should create a blank file and name it something like archives.php or page-archives.php.

When you upload that blank template to your WordPress theme directory, you will see the file listed in your template list.