Title: Empty Archive Page
Last modified: March 9, 2018

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# Empty Archive Page

 *  Resolved [frigidpizza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frigidpizza/)
 * (@frigidpizza)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-archive-page/)
 * I’m using the Sermon Manager plugin and it seems to be working correctly if I
   use the archive page link ([http://bmchurch.ca/messages/](http://bmchurch.ca/messages/)).
   But once on that page if I click any of the links to filter the sermons (series,
   service type, preacher) I’m forwarded to an empty archive page ([http://bmchurch.ca/series/mark/](http://bmchurch.ca/series/mark/))
 * I am able to fix this by unchecking the “Theme Compatibility” checkbox. But this
   results in all of the sermon displaying in a full-screen layout, which looks 
   wrong. Is there any way around this?
 * Thanks
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fempty-archive-page%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Nikola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikolam/)
 * (@nikolam)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-archive-page/#post-10069776)
 * Hi,
 * For some unknown reason, Sermon Manager series have “series-2” slug, so “Mark”
   would be at [http://bmchurch.ca/series-2/mark/](http://bmchurch.ca/series-2/mark/),
   and as you can see, it works correctly.
 * I wonder, do you have some other page with slug “series”?
 *  Thread Starter [frigidpizza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frigidpizza/)
 * (@frigidpizza)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-archive-page/#post-10085765)
 * The Series-2 slug was created when I created a second series page to get around
   the problem I was having above. This is the temporary page I created
 * [http://bmchurch.ca/series-2/](http://bmchurch.ca/series-2/)
 *  [Nikola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nikolam/)
 * (@nikolam)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-archive-page/#post-10088493)
 * Hi,
 * It seems that the issue is that the active theme doesn’t have proper files for
   rendering archive layout.
 * That would also explain why it works (albeit with display issues) when “Theme
   Compatibility” is unchecked.
 * So, the solution would be to properly create the code needed for the archive 
   page to display **or** you could do the following:
    1. Deactivate and remove existing Sermon Manager (**no data will be lost**)
    2. Download and install the [development version](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sermon-manager-for-wordpress.zip)
 * After installing the development version, check the checbox named “Theme Compatibility”
   in Sermon Manager settings and see if the layout is acceptable now.
 * Thank you for your patience.

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