Title: archive.php and category.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# archive.php and category.php

 *  [mreddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mreddy/)
 * (@mreddy)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archivephp-and-categoryphp/)
 * When archive.php and category.php do not exist, what is being used?? I mean I
   still get titles like “Archive” even though NONE of the template files have these
   titles. Where does WordPress get this stuff anyway?
 * I am curious since WP does not use the archive.php or category.php even when 
   they exist.
 * Using 2.0.4.

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archivephp-and-categoryphp/#post-445293)
 * index.php is used.
    Here, this explains it better than I can: [Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
 *  Thread Starter [mreddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mreddy/)
 * (@mreddy)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archivephp-and-categoryphp/#post-445884)
 * I don’t get it.
 * If index.php doesn’t have these “Archive”-titles where do they come from. Maybe
   I’m just stupid. 🙁

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 * [archive.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/archive-php/)
 * [category.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category-php/)
 * [templates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/templates/)

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 * Last reply from: [mreddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mreddy/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archivephp-and-categoryphp/#post-445884)
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