Custom archive page for CPT

I’ve got a custom post type for a glossary. On the glossary archive page I’d like to display it with no thumbnail or meta data, display the content rather than the excerpt, and remove the link from the title. Basically on the archive page it just needs to have the title and content displaying in alphabetical order, with 25 posts per page and paging.

What would be the best way to do this? I’m assuming it would be best to do a custom archive page calling to a custom loop? Or can I hook in with a function in my child theme just for that custom post type? I know I can hook in with pre_get_posts to change the amount of posts displayed, but as far as not displaying the other stuff, I’d rather not just hide it through CSS.

Hi thanks, I ended up doing a combination of things to make it work. I hooked in to change the amount of posts displayed and display in alphabetical order, then modified the archive in my child theme so that if it’s that post type display the content, then I also had to tweak the CSS. Whew! But it’s all working good now.

I do have a request though for a future update – if any post (or post type) doesn’t have comments enabled, then the comments in the meta info should be off by default in all of the archives and search and modules etc. Would that be possible to incorporate?

Hi,
I have a problem with Glossary term page format (I use glossary plugin premium) – its page or post format is different (smaller, looks like a mobile page/post format) than the normal default/global page/post format.

How can I change it to default/global page/post format.
the link is: http://www.mydomain.com/glossary/audi (audi is glossary term), and when you go to audi page it has critical error on it and the page format is smaller than the normal post page format.

Please help.