Solved Custom Archive page

Hi,

I'm trying to make a customized version of the display Divi uses for the archive page for posts, that simply lists them in descending order with the date and post title.

By default, Divi seems to be using index.php for this page if I set a Posts Page under WordPress, Settings, Reading.

So what I'd like to do is create a page with a Divi banner block above the post listing. So far no luck. I've turned off the above setting to set a default post page, then I created a page template called 'myarchive.php' with 'Template Name: Archives2' in the comments above, then I cut and pasted the code from index.php.

Then I go into WP, create a blank Page and set the page template to 'Archives2'. The result is that the page just displays the current page's title and date. No posts are listed.

Any ideas about I could make this work?

 

I tried the first option and set a Custom Header for All Archives pages. This initially seemed to work as it correctly displayed a banner above the list of posts. However, it removed the site menu from the page. Yikes.

How do I get the menu back on this page?

 

That did the trick! Thank you!!