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I would like to have one archive page to do all the dirty work of displaying any archives that are generated. So if I am in a blog post and I click on the category the post uses, or maybe the tag, it would take me to an archive of all posts using that category or tag.
I am using a child theme and my understanding is that if I copy the archive.php file to my child theme, it should be used as the go-to archives template as per the template hierarchy (yes, my archive page is set to use the "Archive" template). But this isn't happening. The template is instead loading the index.php file located in the core Genesis theme whenever an archive is generated.
What am I missing?
You could try template_include with the is_archive() conditional tag.
Using the archive.php file from genesis won't work as the file will need to be modified.
You can use this template code as a guide and use the Template Hierarchy to name the file.
Thank you Brad. That code seemed to do the trick.
I already had named the file as archive.php according to the Template Hierarchy. And this is what was causing my confusion since I believed I had it named properly.
It turns out that the code that is in the default archives.php (category/author/etc archive titles & descriptions) was causing the conflict and giving me a white screen of death and a 500 error. I removed all that code, added the code from your link above (thank you! - I saw that listed in my Google searches but skipped it because I thought it was only about setting up a category archives), and customized it a bit. I still retain my category/author box/tag/etc archive titles and descriptions and now it's using the proper template.
Onward and upward.
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