Post Type Archive Pages
Place the archive pages for your post types in the structure of your content pages. The power of pages and post types combined!
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·300 active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, Post Type Archive Pages is a WordPress post types plugin with 300 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Essential Content Types.
5/51 reviews
300active installs
6.4K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Post Type Archive Pages allows you to select pages from within your content page structure to be the archive pages for your custom post types. This gives you control of the permalink for your archive pages and allows them to be nested under other pages. It also sets the permalink base for single posts of that post type and term archive for the post type’s taxonomies.
Once the plugin is installed and activated you’ll be able to select the archive page for each of your registered post types under Settings > Reading.
Templating
WordPress will look for archive page templates for the pages that you set as archive pages. So archive-$posttype.php and archive.php will be used rather than page.php.
There are also a few functions available that may be helpful in building themes. They…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 5.3.21 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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