WordPress custom post types

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Hello everyone,
I am working on a wordpress project and to make the CMS more organised, I am using custom post types.
Main pages:
1. Home
2. Articles
3. Products
4. Resources
5. Videos
6. Contact

1. Home and 6. Contact pages are just simple pages but except those two , Articles, products, Resources, Videos are like blog. Each page will have different blog template (All items/articles listed) and different Single page template (To show whole item/article).

According to WP template hierarchy I though i could name different blog page template like Page-custm_post_type_name.php (page-article.php, page-videos.php) and they will work as my blog page and for single page like single-articles.php but it didn’t work for me.

All the custom blog pages fall back to index.php even if the page-post_type_name.php is available. No idea what i am doing wrong.

The solution above works good for pages but not for blog pages (list of articles).
Thank you,

[Alen]

If you look at WordPress Template Hierarchy for custom post type you’ll see it’s using archive-{post_type}.php.

Also, don’t create custom post type for everything, that doesn’t make sense.

• Home, should be a page
• Articles, should be posts
• Products, should be custom post type
• Resources, should be a page
• Videos, could be custom post type
• Contact, should be a page

You can also create specific templates for your pages.

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Thank you @Alen. I created archive-{post-type}.php instead of page-{post-type}.php and it’s now working as I was looking for.

Now all the custom posts i created have the blog page and i also created single page for them like so, single-{post-type}.php.

Single page is working as expected for 3 custom post types but not for one and i am sure that i did exactly the same thing to create the single page for all of them.

If the post name is product, blog page is archive-product.php and single page is single-product.php then from archive-product.php it should go to single-product.php by default, right? but its not happening here.

Again, not sure whats going on.

Thanks,

[Alen]

In the code for the custom post type do you have 'has_archive' => true?

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Yes

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There was nothing wrong with the code, it was just a url caching issue.

I Had to reset the permalinks in WP dashboard -> settings -> permalinks
1. Reset it to Default and save then,
2. set it to whatever you want.

For anyone who is this facing this issue.

Thanks @Alen you were very helpful.

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