Title: Archives broken
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Archives broken

 *  [wege](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wege/)
 * (@wege)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-broken-1/)
 * Hi
 * I can’t seem to get the archives page working. All posts that are supposed to
   be there are. But the theme is really messed up. The theme uses almost the exact
   archives.php as the default theme.
 * Does anybode have an idea what causes this. [http://www.rivaliserandestenar.se](http://www.rivaliserandestenar.se)
   is the url. Not yet made public, so it doesn’t cointain much yet.

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-broken-1/#post-731749)
 * For displaying your monthly (or category) archive list – you need archive.php
   file (no S at the end!).
    archives.php is completely different: it is a Page 
   template.
 *  Thread Starter [wege](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wege/)
 * (@wege)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-broken-1/#post-731751)
 * I’m quite aware of that. I have both. And since the posts show but the page is
   distorted I come to the conclusion that it’s the archives (with the s).php that
   is wrong and not the archive.php.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-broken-1/#post-731752)
 * Wrong conclusion.
    If a month’s name is clicked, then WP uses: archive.php – (
   if exists) index.php – as a fallback.
 * Read [Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy).
 *  Thread Starter [wege](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wege/)
 * (@wege)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-broken-1/#post-731754)
 * That still doesn’t give me an idea to why the archive-page is distorted. I think
   that my archive.php looks fine as well.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-broken-1/#post-731755)
 * Actually, it doesn’t look well:
    [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rivaliserandestenar.se%2F%3Fm%3D200804](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rivaliserandestenar.se%2F%3Fm%3D200804)
   It has misplaced div tags in it. Whenever you have display problems, validating
   the code should be your first task.
 *  Thread Starter [wege](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wege/)
 * (@wege)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-broken-1/#post-731773)
 * Thanks. I’ll be looking into it.

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

The topic ‘Archives broken’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [wege](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wege/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-broken-1/#post-731773)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics