Current Post Type Info | WordPress.org

Elliot Toman
(@asubtleweb)

12 years, 4 months ago

I’m a PHP dullard, but I’ll phrase this as best I can: Is there a way to retrieve information about the currently active post type in a template? For example, if I have several custom post types, and I want to add a wp_query in my index.php template that lists only the posts in the currently active post type.

I experimented with get_post_type_labels and get_post_type_object, but wasn’t able to accomplish anything except generating errors. ;p

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Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

12 years, 4 months ago
This is the template hierarchy for displaying custom post type posts: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Custom_Post_Types_display

Try it with get_post_type()
```
$posttype = get_post_type();
// or
$posttype = get_post_type($post);
// or
$posttype = get_post_type($post->ID);
```
Thread Starter Elliot Toman
(@asubtleweb)

12 years, 4 months ago

Wow, that was easy. Thank you!

Is there any way to retrieve the labels for the post type, such as the singular or plural names?
Thread Starter Elliot Toman
(@asubtleweb)

12 years, 4 months ago
I figured it out!
```
<?php $posttype = get_post_type(); ?>
<?php $obj = get_post_type_object( $posttype ); ?>
<?php print $obj->labels->name; ?>
```
Thanks again for your help. 🙂
Moderator keesiemeijer
(@keesiemeijer)

12 years, 4 months ago
try it with: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_type_object
```
$posttype = get_post_type();
$obj = get_post_type_object($posttype);
print $obj->labels->singular_name;
```
[edit] oops, too late.
Thread Starter Elliot Toman
(@asubtleweb)

12 years, 4 months ago

I can’t tell you how gratifying it is that we settled on the same solution.

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