[Resolved] When to use a page vs an archive?

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[mariaR-3]

Hi, I am building a page that is a section about a product family.

I am not going to use an archive loop to show the product, since I am using different custom slideshows.

Therefore, I believe I could build the page as a normal page instead of an archive. The advantage of this approach is that it would be easier for the client to have all the pages available in wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page, instead of having to remember where to find it.

2 questions:
1) is this approach correct?
2) I have created a page called /equipos-de-analisis-alimentario/, but I cannot see it on the front-end, since the page that opens is the archive page... (I haven't created an archive page for this - see screenshot attached)

How can I fix that?

[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

It's actually user will have to decide when they want to go with archive page or normal page. As you shared in your case the page will be more easy to locate and accessible you can go with normal page there is no harm in that.

WordPress works with the unique slugs and if you already have any other entities already available with the same slug then you may get the malformed result.

What if you change the page slug to something other and check if that help you to resolve your issue.

[mariaR-3]

Hi Minesh, thank you for your fast reply.
Unfortunately I cannot change the page slug since has been defined by the SEO team. I guess I could change the archive slug somehow?

[Minesh]

The post type archive slug is of post type slug.

you can change the post type slug by editing your post type from Toolset => Post types and then you should re-save the permalinks from Settings => Permalink.

I suggest to go with changing the page slug if possible to ensure there should be no conflict.