[wp-hackers] Is this a bug? - is_archive()

[Bill Erickson]

I just updated that codex page.


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Bill Erickson
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Gavin Pearce <Gavin.Pearce at 3seven9.com>wrote:

> Good spot - I've cross posted to the 'docs' page to ask someone to
> update the codex for that page.
>
> It does incorrectly list post type as a parameter.
>
> G
>
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>
> I believe you should be using is_post_type_archive( $post_type ).
>
> If you look in the code (
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-includes/query.php
> )
> is_archive() doesn't accept a post type parameter
>
>
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> Bill Erickson
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> http://www.billerickson.net
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Robert Lusby <nanogwp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have two seperate custom post types - let's call them 'books' and
> > 'fruit'.
> >
> > They both have 'has_archive' set to true, and slugs of:
> > /books/ and /fruit/
> >
> > In functions.php, I'm calling the following:
> > if (is_archive('books')) {
> >    die("true");
> > }
> >
> > Which returns true at:
> > http://www.example.com/books/
> > [expected behaviour]
> >
> > It *also* however returns true at:
> > http://www.example.com/fruit/
> > [unexpected behaviour when using the post_types parameter]
> >
> > This is using the latest version of WP.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > For ref:
> http://codex.wordpress.org/**Function_Reference/is_archive<http://codex.
> wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_archive>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rob
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