Hi developers i am trying to create archives page for my custom post types but it is going to a default archive page not the archive page which i have created for archives here is my code for custom post type // Register Custom Post Type function gallery_post_type() { $labels = array( 'name' => _x('Gallery images', 'Post Type General Name', 'horst'), 'singular_name' => _x('Gallery image', 'Post Type Singular Name', 'horst'), 'menu_name' => __('Photo Gallery', 'horst'), 'name_admin_bar' => __('Photo Gallery', 'horst'), 'archives' => __('Item Archives', 'horst'), 'parent_item_colon' => __('Parent Photo:', 'horst'), 'all_items' => __('All Photos', 'horst'), 'add_new_item' => __('Add New Photo', 'horst'), 'add_new' => __('Add New Gallery image', 'horst'), 'new_item' => __('New Photo', 'horst'), 'edit_item' => __('Edit Photo', 'horst'), 'update_item' => __('Update Photo', 'horst'), 'view_item' => __('View Photo', 'horst'), 'search_items' => __('Search Photos', 'horst'), 'not_found' => __('Not found', 'horst'), 'not_found_in_trash' => __('Not found in Trash', 'horst'), 'featured_image' => __('Gallery Image', 'horst'), 'set_featured_image' => __('Set Gallery image', 'horst'), 'remove_featured_image' => __('Remove Gallery image', 'horst'), 'use_featured_image' => __('Use as Gallery image', 'horst'), 'insert_into_item' => __('Insert into item', 'horst'), 'uploaded_to_this_item' => __('Uploaded to this Photo', 'horst'), 'items_list' => __('Photos list', 'horst'), 'items_list_navigation' => __('Photo list navigation', 'horst'), 'filter_items_list' => __('Filter Photo list', 'horst'), ); $args = array( 'label' => __('Gallery image', 'horst'), 'description' => __('gallery imges for gallery page', 'horst'), 'labels' => $labels, 'supports' => array('title', 'thumbnail',), 'hierarchical' => true, 'taxonomies' => array( 'gallery_categories', ), 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'gallery', ), 'public' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_in_menu' => true, 'menu_position' => 5, 'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-format-gallery', 'show_in_admin_bar' => true, 'show_in_nav_menus' => true, 'can_export' => true, 'has_archive' => true, ); register_post_type('gallery', $args); } add_action('init', 'gallery_post_type'); and this is my custom taxonomy // Register Custom Taxonomy function custom_taxonomy() { $labels = array( 'name' => _x( 'Gallery Maps', 'Taxonomy General Name', 'text_domain' ), 'singular_name' => _x( 'Gallery Map', 'Taxonomy Singular Name', 'text_domain' ), 'menu_name' => __( 'Gallery Maps', 'text_domain' ), 'all_items' => __( 'All Items', 'text_domain' ), 'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Item', 'text_domain' ), 'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Item:', 'text_domain' ), 'new_item_name' => __( 'New Item Name', 'text_domain' ), 'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Item', 'text_domain' ), 'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Item', 'text_domain' ), 'update_item' => __( 'Update Item', 'text_domain' ), 'view_item' => __( 'View Item', 'text_domain' ), 'separate_items_with_commas' => __( 'Separate items with commas', 'text_domain' ), 'add_or_remove_items' => __( 'Add or remove items', 'text_domain' ), 'choose_from_most_used' => __( 'Choose from the most used', 'text_domain' ), 'popular_items' => __( 'Popular Items', 'text_domain' ), 'search_items' => __( 'Search Items', 'text_domain' ), 'not_found' => __( 'Not Found', 'text_domain' ), 'no_terms' => __( 'No items', 'text_domain' ), 'items_list' => __( 'Items list', 'text_domain' ), 'items_list_navigation' => __( 'Items list navigation', 'text_domain' ), ); $args = array( 'labels' => $labels, 'hierarchical' => true, 'public' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_admin_column' => true, 'show_in_nav_menus' => true, 'show_tagcloud' => true, ); register_taxonomy( 'gallery_categories', array( 'gallery' ), $args ); } add_action( 'init', 'custom_taxonomy'); don't know what i am doing wrong :)