Archive pages are the special pages which list all of your content. An example is a blog post archive at YOUR-SITE.com/post/. Similarly, you can list subsets of pages by using widgets on landing pages (aka widget pages) or by browsing a taxonomy URL such as YOUR-SITE.com/tags/awesome/. Did you know that the Pages and Featured widgets on the homepage will automatically link to their corresponding archive pages when you have more items of content than you configured to be displayed in the widge...
