Archive Page Design

According to the Template Hierarchy article, most archive type templates will ultimately default to index.php. For example, a date based archive, will default to index.php if no date.php, or archive.php, template file exists for a theme.

I think you need to stop trying to design your site through a preview interface. It may be messing things up and generally interfering with everything but your home page.

ok, so it’s now live, no interface; however, it keeps doing the same thing.

what i don’t get is that it isn’t defaulting to index.php; it isn’t defaulting to any of my other pages.

i know there’s got to be a way to do this!

if you go to the site, https://www.naked-heart.com/blog and click on a post you’ll see how they’re different.

thanks!

Would think that clicking on a post title causes your theme’s single.php file to be used…do you have such a file in your theme folder?

Yes – progress!

It all looks good, except for one thing that I can’t figure out: why is the sidebar slightly different on the single post and archive page, compared to the main blog page (the position on the page is different, as is the text being aligned left vs. centered)?

Thanks so much!