How to Create a Custom Post Types Archive Page in WordPress

Custom Post Types was one of the awesome features included in WordPress 3.0. One of our users asked us a question on twitter (@wpbeginner), how to create a custom post types archive page. We covered it in our initial article about Custom Post Types, but it wasn’t explained thoroughly. So in this article, we will show you a step by step guide on creating a custom post types archive page in WordPress.

1. Creating a Custom Page Template

First step would be creating a custom page template in WordPress. All we will do is add the following code at the top of our new .php file which we will call (custompt-archives.php).