How to get the Custom Post Type Archive inside a folder

Question

I have archive-teachers.php which is not yet inside any folder and it was working fine. But when I transfer the archive-teachers.php in the archive folder, it stop working everytime I check the url /teachers/. So I put back the archive-teachers.php back together with the header.php. Then I created a parent of the teachers which have the url school/teachers/ but now the archive-teachers.php is not working anymore. Before, I just create a blank page named Teachers and it was able to call the archive-teachers but when I create a parent page of teachers, it stopped working.

I would like to ask help with you guys on how can I solve my problem. First, will be able to use the archive-teachers.php inside a folder and second, how can I call or access the archive-teachers.php inside the folder in the url of /school/teachers/

Please give some advise.

Answer 1

That a normal behaviour of WordPress.

Have a look to te template hierarchy template hierarchy. To solve your matter, leave your file in the main folder of your theme (or child theme) or use a template_redirect or template_include filter, depending how you want to call your archive page, you'll be able to redirect to another template file or include the file you want.

For instance, archive folder is not a folder that WordPress will detect when it want to load a template, you need to tell to WordPress, where is the file you want to load for your special query.