How to Create a Simple WordPress Archive Page Quickly

An Archive page is an index page 0r sitemap of your blog. It shows list of all your post titles and links of that titles lead your reader to the view of whole post.

All bloggers should have an archive page in their blogs because it quickly gives rough idea to your readers what kind of content you have in your blog and also good for SEO.

Here you’ll need a WordPress plugin Clean Archives Reloaded by Viper007bond to make Archive page. Visit my Archive page to see how this plugin works.

This plugin gives you expandable and collapsible archive page. Simply, click on any month to expand and see all posts created in that month and click again to collapse that list. This plugin also shows date before the post and number of comments after the post.

For new blogger, this plugin is a really good option because it just takes 2-5 minutes to create Archive page. With this pugin, you don’t need to make or upload any Archive.php file to your WordPress theme and also don’t need to enter any complicate code manually. Use this page for temporarily and later switch it to another one when you find any better plugin or code for your Archive page.

Here are all steps to create Archive page.

1. First install the Clean Archives Reloaded wordpress plugin and activate it.

2. Now Create a new page and give it Archives title or open your Archives page if you have one.

3. In the page, add this following code in the Box Brackets [ ]:-

cleanarchivesreloaded

4. Make sure you have selected the “Default Template” option in Attributes tab (the one on your right side) for this page.

5. Publish/Update the page.

Now you have an Archive page for you, for your readers also for search engines.