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I created a custom post type ('explore') that we use in the site. The pages for this section live at http://example.com/explore/page-name

These pages work just fine, but if a user were to back out of that url and go to http://example.com/explore they are getting the generic index.php page that is NOT what we want people to see here.

Considering this url does NOT point to any content, how can I specify which template to use? I can echo out the get_post_type() and it shows 'explore' as the post type, but I'm seeing that from the index.php template.

I tried adding a page-explore.php but that didn't work. There doesn't seem to be a index-[custom-type].php

Thanks.

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  • if /explore is showing a post archive of that post type then can you not use the standard post archive template from the template hierarchy diagram as outlined in the official handbook docs?
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Jan 28, 2022 at 18:14

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You're looking for the "custom post type archive template". That's archive-{post_type}.php, or in your case archive-explore.php:

https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/custom-post-type-template-files/

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  • Works, perfectly. Thanks!
    – Scott
    Jan 28, 2022 at 20:19

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