Structure: page vs archive /linkstructure

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(@lucasackers)

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Hello everyone,

I am a small business owner and create the website for my business myself. Working with Breakdance is fantastic. However, I am having problems with the structure of my website.

I use CPT UI to add custom post types to my website such as projects, events and realizations.

Each CPT has an archive such as e.g. www.test.com/projects/sample. The archive page here is projects. There is no template associated with the archivepage. (Blank)

I have a page "Invest" (www.test.com/invest) on this page it shows the projects with a postloopbuilder plus other information etc. However, when I click on a project the slug changes to www.test. com/projects/example. I would like this cpt to fall under invest. (www.test.com/invest/example).

How do I handle this?

Is a page the same as an archive page according to SEO?

What are the differences in this? because in my mind i prefer a page?

Hopefully one of you can help me out!

Thank you in advance!

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Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith
(@tw2113)

The BenchPresser

3 years, 1 month ago

Not familiar with Breakdance so any specific questions regarding their product and post types are better served asking their support.

By default, post types will use the archive.php template file in your theme, and fall back to index.php if I recall right. It is possible to get specific template files for each post type, but that’ll be something you need to look into creating. For example archive-movie.php would be used for a movie post type.

Regarding that last part, it sounds like you’re wanting to “mix” pages and post types with one permalink structure? I’ve never attempted anything like that so I can’t say how easy it may or may not be, but I would also likely advise against. It’d be easier and more time efficient to have “example” be a child page, and you could in some way do a custom query to the example project and display still.

A “page” is meant to be more static informational content, an archive is an evolving reference to many other pieces of content grouped together by a common element. So I assume definitely different in terms of SEO context. If you prefer pages, I see no reason to avoid using them.

Plugin Contributor Michael Beckwith
(@tw2113)

The BenchPresser

3 years ago

Ever make some headway with this @lucasackers ?

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