[josschuurmans]

(Posted this question also here: http://josschuurmans.com/2014/03/18/why-does-mywordpresswebsite-comcustomposttypename-show-a-blog-post-instead-of-the-custom-post-types-archive/)

I created a child theme of Attitude by Theme Horse, which I dubbed “Attitude Lapsi” (directory: “attitude-lapsi”).

I created a custom post type “tontti” (plural: “tontit”), and custom fields for it using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

I created a page template file “single-tontti.php”, to edit the front-end display of the contents from the “tontti” post type’s custom fields. This works and looks fine on the front-end.

I created a page template file “archive-tontti.php”, to edit the archive page of the custom post type in question. According to the WordPress Codex at https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Type_Templates, I should be able to view to output of this archive at http://www.mywebsite.com/tontti/, right? But I can’t.

Instead of displaying he archive page at http://www.mywebsite.com/tontti/, WordPress serves me a blog post of which the headline starts with the word “Tonti”.

Is this a bug or a feature? Should I have created a page called “Tontti”? What gives?

Much appreciated,
Jos

[Theme Horse Support Team]

Hi Jos,

All the steps that you have stated above seems to be fine. We can’t just tell you what the issue may just hearing your issue because while creating CPT you have to be very careful and there are many places where there could be mistake. So we request you to hire someone or consult some developer on this.

Also you can have a look in this great tutorial by Justin tadlock http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/04/29/custom-post-types-in-wordpress

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