Title: WordPress – Using index.php for post and custom post type
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress – Using index.php for post and custom post type

 *  [Khealdor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khealdor/)
 * (@khealdor)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-using-indexphp-for-post-and-custom-post-type/)
 * I need to use my index.php file for my standard wordpress news, but also for 
   custom post type.
 * In my index.php file I use a standard loop with no arguments or parameters.
 * I am trying to make it work with the action “pre_get_posts”. I have been trying
   to change the query post type, but still doesn’t work.
 * `$query->set('post_type', 'any')`
 * So I need a way for /dossiers/ to use index.php which mean I need to change the
   query of the loop when /dossiers/ is detected in the url.
 * Thanks alot!
 * Edit:
 * Here is the function I call with “pre_get_post”:
 *     ```
       function custom_post_types( $query ) {
       	    if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->query['name'] == 'dossiers' ) {
       		    $query->set('post_type', 'any');
   
       		    var_dump($query);
       	    }
           }
       ```
   
 * And here is the var_dump of $query:
 *     ```
       object(WP_Query)#100 (42) {
             ["query"]=>
             array(2) {
             ["page"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["name"]=>
             string(8) "dossiers"
           }
           ["query_vars"]=>
           array(46) {
             ["page"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["name"]=>
             string(8) "dossiers"
             ["error"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["m"]=>
             int(0)
             ["p"]=>
             int(0)
             ["post_parent"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["subpost"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["subpost_id"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["attachment"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["attachment_id"]=>
             int(0)
             ["static"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["pagename"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["page_id"]=>
             int(0)
             ["second"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["minute"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["hour"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["day"]=>
             int(0)
             ["monthnum"]=>
             int(0)
             ["year"]=>
             int(0)
             ["w"]=>
             int(0)
             ["category_name"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["tag"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["cat"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["tag_id"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["author_name"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["feed"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["tb"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["paged"]=>
             int(0)
             ["comments_popup"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["meta_key"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["meta_value"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["preview"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["s"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["sentence"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["fields"]=>
             string(0) ""
             ["category__in"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["category__not_in"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["category__and"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["post__in"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["post__not_in"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["tag__in"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["tag__not_in"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["tag__and"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["tag_slug__in"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["tag_slug__and"]=>
               array(0) {
             }
             ["post_type"]=>
               string(3) "any"
           }
             ["tax_query"]=>
             NULL
             ["meta_query"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["post_count"]=>
             int(0)
             ["current_post"]=>
             int(-1)
             ["in_the_loop"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["comment_count"]=>
             int(0)
             ["current_comment"]=>
             int(-1)
             ["found_posts"]=>
             int(0)
             ["max_num_pages"]=>
             int(0)
             ["max_num_comment_pages"]=>
             int(0)
             ["is_single"]=>
             bool(true)
             ["is_preview"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_page"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_archive"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_date"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_year"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_month"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_day"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_time"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_author"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_category"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_tag"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_tax"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_search"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_feed"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_comment_feed"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_trackback"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_home"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_404"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_comments_popup"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_paged"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_admin"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_attachment"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_singular"]=>
             bool(true)
             ["is_robots"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_posts_page"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["is_post_type_archive"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["query_vars_hash"]=>
             string(32) "3cd80adcb57d626df6535f6dafb98057"
             ["query_vars_changed"]=>
             bool(false)
             ["thumbnails_cached"]=>
             bool(false)
           }
       ```
   
 * The value for “name” is set to “dossiers”, which is supposed to be the slug for
   a post name, if I set it to “”, I get redirected to single.php with my last custom
   post type.

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 *  [360](https://wordpress.org/support/users/360gradfoto/)
 * (@360gradfoto)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-using-indexphp-for-post-and-custom-post-type/#post-3209016)
 * the template hirarchy will help here:
 * archive-{post_type}.php – If the post type were product, WordPress would look
   for archive-product.php.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)

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