AMP for Archives not working

Hi @jimmyj352

After checking the URL, it seems like that page is a “Page Template”, right?

so that content, is it coming from the code?

Wow, you’re good! Yes, the template is set to Archives so I assume that means that it just uses all the code in the page-archive.php. Looking at the page-archive.php page in the Editor, it does say Archives Page Template and is listed as the template name in the code of the PHP file.

Hi @jimmyj352

Thanks ?? I solve problems on daily basis ??

So, Can you modify that page through custom AMP Editor and add the content just for AMP. I suppose that would be the easiest way at the moment.

I’m always good with the easy solution, Ahmed! However, since it’s all PHP, can I add that into the Custom AMP Editor?

— Jim

Hi @jimmyj352

You can’t add the PHP code into customizer, however, you can just copy the output and enter it manually for now I suppose?

You can override that specific file with php code as well. Or if you are not technical enough, you can use our ACF for AMP extension which allows you to execute php code anywhere as a user.

Ok, thanks, Ahmed – I’ll try to figure out how to override the file with PHP code. Hopefully that doesn’t turn out to be to hard to do.

— Jim

I’m not sure if this will work, but I decided to just exclude AMP for that page. Hopefully, Google will be Ok with that.

— Jim

Hi @jimmyj352

Sure, If that helps you.

Could you let me know what’s the content that you were trying to exclude?

Well, that page is a list of all my posts that is created on the fly through PHP. It would be a real hassle to have to create the content manually each time instead of leveraging PHP to just do the work for me.

Did you have another thought on this?

— Jim

Hi @jimmyj352

yes, that’s possible. If you can give me the URL and the actual scenario, then it would be helpful for me to understand the solution for you

Hi Ahmed – the URL is https://www.routetoretire.com/archives/

Without pasting the whole code for the page, the PHP code basically runs things like:

<?php compact_archive($style=’block’); ?>

and

<?php wp_list_categories(‘title_li=’); ?>

Then it runs some code to get all posts and break them up by month.

Does that help or do you need more info?

— Jim

Yes, that’s definitely possible. you can get some of the code from here: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/04/building-custom-wordpress-archive-page/

and use at the proper places, it should work perfectly

Thanks, Ahmed – I already have the working code going for this. The page works just fine – you can check it out at https://www.routetoretire.com/archives/ to see.

My problem is that the AMP plugin doesn’t work on that page so I just turned AMP off for it as a workaround.

— Jim