Custom Post Type Template – Archive

I have a custom post type, called ‘job’, and I have the following templates in my theme:

• single-job.php (works fine, displays single job as expected)
• archives-job.php (is not recognized?)
• archives-current.php (also not
  recognized)
• archives.php (is not
  recognized either?)
• index.php
  (archives page uses this page)

Here is how I’ve registered my custom content type in functions.php:

add_action( 'init', 'create_jobs' );
function create_jobs() {
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Jobs', 'post type general name'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Job', 'post type singular name'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'Job'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Job'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit Job'),
    'new_item' => __('New Job'),
    'view_item' => __('View Job'),
    'search_items' => __('Search Jobs'),
    'not_found' =>  __('No Jobs found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Jobs found in Trash'),
    'parent_item_colon' => ''
  );

  $supports = array('title', 'editor', 'custom-fields', 'revisions', 'excerpt');

  register_post_type( 'Job',
    array(
      'labels' => $labels,
      'public' => true,
      'has_archive' => 'current', 
      'supports' => $supports
    )
  );
}

When i go to the url http://mywebsite/wordpress/current/, it displays all of my jobs as expected– but it is not using ANY of the archive templates, and instead uses index.php.

My understanding of the wordpress documentation was that it would look for archives-(special archive for post type name).php, then archives-(post type).php, then archives.php, then index.php… but it just goes straight to index.php?

I did visit the permalinks settings page and clicked save to refresh everything, so I’m not getting 404’s, it’s just not outputting to the correct templates… did I name them incorrectly? Is there a registration setting I missed when I created my custom post type?

Answers:

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Method 1

try 'has_archive' => 'true'; and do the permalink reset before testing! and it should be singular archive-job.php rather than archives-job.php

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