NO BUG: Blog Archive and Single Blog Post TEMPLATES not firing and default templates are shown

Browser: Chrome Version 140.0.7339.82
OS: Windows
URL: Coming soon – Barest
Video: Jam

I have created templates for Blog Archive and Single Blog Post but Bricks does NOT use them for some reason and a default is used instead.

My setup (screenshots included):

  1. Blog Archive is set as Archive in templates and I’ve used 2 conditions (used them separately and together with no difference): Individual → referring to the Blog page AND Archive - Post type - Post (or Archive → All archives as in the video but it makes no difference).
  2. Single Blog Post is set as Single in the template and the Condition Post type → Post.
  3. In Wordpress Settings → Reading Posts page is set as “Blog”.
  4. I have no other Archive template, except one for the Product Archive, which has a condition Archive - Post type - Product. This archive works fine.
  5. In the website hosts logs I saw this: [archive] => 0 when loading either of these pages. It seems that Bricks does not find my templates so goes for the default ones.
  • I have included screenshot of my setups. Both from the Templates page and from the Conditions I have set.
  • I have included screenshots of how either of these pages should look like in my templates.
  • Coming soon – Barest - here you can see what is actually shown.






I actually found a solution to this issue.
For some reason the Blog related templates for not rendered with Bricks, but with Wordpress. See the screenshot.

This honestly sounds like a bug or bad design that it happened. I didn’t conciously choose that Blog pages should be rendered with Wordpress and didn’t realise there’s a way to change this. Wasted days trying to find a solution.

Screenshot 2025-09-15 113822

Hi mirksa,
Thanks so much for your report, and welcome to the forum!

You probably clicked on “Render with WordPress” by mistake and only noticed it later. That can happen in the heat of the moment :slight_smile:

If you encounter another problem, just let us know a little sooner, then we can assist you within hours, not days :v:

Best regards,
timmse