Title: Page Template
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Page Template

 *  [snakesmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snakesmaster/)
 * (@snakesmaster)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/)
 * I try to do this to create an archive index: Just go to Write > Write Page and
   from the Page Template dropdown select “Archives”.
 * But I don’t see this optin. Why?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/#post-485970)
 * You don’t see the Archives option or you don’t see the Page templates option?
 * Either way it measn you do NOT have a template called “Archives”; the Templates
   options doesn’t show up at all if youo don’t have more than 1 (the default page.
   php) Page templates.
 *  Thread Starter [snakesmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snakesmaster/)
 * (@snakesmaster)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/#post-485977)
 * I don’t see the page template option 🙁
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/#post-485978)
 * Then check your theme:
    – if there is a page.php template file in it – create
   an archives.php template > [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates)–
   if there isn’t a page.php file > create both: page.php and archives.php
 *  [Truth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/truth/)
 * (@truth)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/#post-485980)
 * If there are no templates at all, you won’t see the page template options as 
   what moshu said, you need to upload an archive.php to the themes folder to get
   that option. [I thought this might help.](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Archive_Index#for_WP_1.5.2B)
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/#post-485981)
 * _you need to upload an archive.php_
 * WRONG! That’s the template file to display monthly and category archives! The
   proper Page template for archives is archiveS.php – notice the S at the end!
 *  Thread Starter [snakesmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snakesmaster/)
 * (@snakesmaster)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/#post-486283)
 * Thanks guys, now it’s working. I miss the page.php file. What I don’t understand
   why I need the archives.php file???
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/#post-486311)
 * As it is stated in your OP (original post) – archives.php is supposed to be a
   Page Template, and you can use in it different template tags (or, eventually,
   plugin tags) to display a kind of “index” of your arhived posts.
    Let me give
   you an example of my testbed: This is a Page made by using the archives.php template
   file: [http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/archives/](http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/archives/)–
   this one is using the very basic template tags [and this is an example of archives.
   php using a plugin: [http://crosscultural.transycan.net/blog/archives/](http://crosscultural.transycan.net/blog/archives/)]
 * On the other hand, there is also an archive.php template file that is used by
   WP to display monthly and category archives when clicked on month or cat names,
   e.g.
    April 2006: [http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/2006/04/](http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/2006/04/)
   a Category: [http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/cat/blog-stuff/](http://www.transycan.net/blogtest/cat/blog-stuff/)

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 * Last reply from: [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-template-3/#post-486311)
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