Archive monthly pages not found error

Hi @ricschug

Just to extra confirm, you’re sure the archive widget is configured to be including post types correct? Asking because I think by default it would only be going with the default post post type.

Only other idea I had would be that the post type in question isn’t getting included in the date archive query, for which we should be able to amend with a pre_get_post hook call and update the query to include more.

yes the archive widget points to the correct CPT. When the archive widget lists the posts it is correct and shows each month with the proper post count (configured for monthly and count) which makes me think it is finding them properly but when I select a specific month, with a post, it returns a page not found. Kinda like it cant find the page template but I thought it would simply find the archive.php at the top of the hierarchy and use that

I wonder if this amended snippet below, based on https://docs.pluginize.com/article/post-types-in-category-tag-archives/ would help here.

function my_cptui_add_post_types_to_archives( $query ) {
	// We do not want unintended consequences.
	if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) {
		return;    
	}

	// We are trying to show in a date based archive.
	if ( $query->is_date() && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) ) {
		$cptui_post_types = cptui_get_post_type_slugs();

		$query->set(
			'post_type',
			array_merge(
				array( 'post' ),
				$cptui_post_types
			)
		);
	}
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_cptui_add_post_types_to_archives' );

Michael, I tried the snippet with not effect. I also regenerated the permalinks and deleted and turned off caching still no change. I have 3 different CPTs and they all behave the same way. The Archive widget is correct with the proper month and count for each CPT but when I select a month is when I get the page not found. Seems like it just doesn’t know now to create the page.

Can you share your post types registration settings? Just visit CPTUI > Tools and you should see on the right a “Export Post Types settings” section. Just paste me the entire blob and I can work from that.

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So we have 5 post types, and I published a post to each of them just now. I have the “Archives” widget in my footer area and it’s only showing me 1 post, from October 2022. So at least by post types registered and a post published, they are not showing up in the widget at all for me.

Are you sure your site isn’t doing some filtering of arguments for the widget? and not perhaps just the same amount of posts are in the post type as there are in the posts actually used in the widget count?

We are not doing any filtering. All our Archive widgets (month/counts) are correct for each CPT. And when I go to http:<site>/cptslug I get a page titled Archive and it lists all the proper items. Its only when I select a month/count from the archive widget that I get the page not found (http<site>/cptslug/2022/10 as an example)

Yes, correct. I’m still clear on the overall issue, but I’m not yet sure how to recreate the same locally because I can’t get the widget to show/include custom post types thus far, which has me wondering what’s maybe going on on your site. Default values are giving me results with just the post post type. That’s what’s confusing me.