You may be able to use get_archives_link with same parameters as wp_get_archives and either use the output from that to determine if there are no posts or there is a filter in get_archives_link called get_archives_link that gives you access to the HTML. Source: http://wpseek.com/function/get_archives_link/
Don’t name your custom page template archive.php. If you refer to the Template Hierarchy, you’ll see that archive.php is the template WordPress loads for archives if a more specific template isn’t available.
1) You need to include postmeta into query that you’re using for archive pages in a kind of this way: add_filter(‘getarchives_join’, ‘my_archives_join_filter’); function my_archives_join_filter($join) { if (!is_user_logged_in()) { global $wpdb; return $join . “LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON ($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id)”; } return $join; } 2) You need to include condition to select a post with … Read more
How to create a completely functioning separate archive for posts from only 1 or 2 specific categories
Archive Meta on Product Post Type
I have created a basic example on how you could achieve this result. // get all posts from our CPT no matter the status $posts = get_posts([ ‘post_type’ => ‘papers’, // based on the post type from your qeustion ‘post_status’ => ‘all’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1 ]); // will contain all posts count by year // … Read more
Create a CUstom Archive by Year, but just for a Single Category
I haven’t found an easy way but here is a solution: I get the month and year from the current archive and compare them with the text. $year = get_query_var( ‘year’ ); $monthnum = get_query_var( ‘monthnum’ ); $monthname = $GLOBALS[‘wp_locale’]->get_month( $monthnum ); $date = $monthname . ‘ ‘ . $year; if ( $text === $date … Read more
I would suggest taking a look at the Template Hierarchy structure to fully understand WHY archive.php overwrites certain pages (although it shouldn’t overwrite search results) If you wanted to go a custom template direction (might be the best way) I would do something like this create a monthly-arcive.php file and paste the following (you can … Read more
The date.php, archive.php, and index.php files control the date archive output. You need to check the contents of those files, in respective order, to find the problem. If WordPress can’t find date.php, it will check for archive.php, and load that if found. Otherwise, index.php will be used to display date archives. See my answer on … Read more