Wordpress showing archive.php instead page

Question

I have a problem with same name (slug) for category and page and wordpress is showing archive.php instead page custom template.

Permalinks settings for category is . and i want to stay this way but to force wordpress to use page on this url address.

Is there any way I can do that?

Category name is "example" so it's url looks like this: example.com/example/ and page name and slug is "example" so it's also example.com/example/

Do you have examples of the URLs for each as well as their slugs? This isn't the clearest at the moment and it's not clear if a precise answer is possible — Tom J Nowell, Commented Oct 4, 2018 at 17:20
and you have a page.php? But it loads archive.php instead? Why is your category permalink set to .? — Tom J Nowell, Commented Oct 5, 2018 at 14:58

bagpipper · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-04 17:05:59Z

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If you want to force WP then I would recommend to have a look at the template hierarchy

One of the ways you could do it page-$slug

answered Oct 4, 2018 at 17:05

bagpipper

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Unfortunately it does not work - i change page template name to page-slug but wordpress still use archive.php
– Jakub
Commented Oct 4, 2018 at 17:16
Just to be clear here, could you tell me ,when you say archive.php, it's pulling taxonomy info or the post_type info?
– bagpipper
Commented Oct 4, 2018 at 17:33
This is archive of custom post type so probably post_type? Could You tell me how to check it?
– Jakub
Commented Oct 4, 2018 at 17:48
You can do this by checking the body class, if you have the function [body_class]developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/body_class It will show you what type of archive it is
– bagpipper
Commented Oct 4, 2018 at 18:27
Sweet now we know what page it is. Since it's post type archive and you want to show the the page template instead of could can disable the archive feature of the post type by setting has_archive as false where you registered the custom post type
– bagpipper
Commented Oct 4, 2018 at 20:01

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