Title: Dated Archive Question
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Dated Archive Question

 *  [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dated-archive-question/)
 * I’m trying to get a nice bunch of archive pages… probably one per month.
 * 1) First of all, what template do i need to create? What is the difference between
   calling one archive.php vs archives.php?
 * 2) If I create an archive template, why do I need to create a page based on it?
 * 3) It seems easy enough to create a page based on the default that WP gives you
   to spit out a list of all months – [http://www.triplepundit.com/archives/](http://www.triplepundit.com/archives/)….
   but none of those links do anything. What are they trying to do? What is missing
   from the default archive template page I copied from here – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Archive_Index](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Archive_Index)????
 * 4) What do I need to add to #3 to make a nice page of Title/Excerpts for a month?
   or a Week for that matter?
 * Thanks!!!

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