[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22110: Check for current conditional

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#22110: Check for current conditional
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 Reporter:  mintindeed   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by mintindeed):

 Replying to [comment:1 scribu]:
 > Can't you just use get_body_class()?

 Honestly I hadn't considered that, I was mostly aware of body_class()
 which of course just outputs a space-delimited string.

 get_body_class() looks like it would mostly work, but there are some core
 differences:
 * rtl is the first element of the array when is_rtl() is set, so if I
 wanted to use this to a theme (for example) I would have to do some funky
 workarounds to account for rtl support — the first element of the array
 wouldn't always be the primary section of the site.
 * it wouldn't work if you needed to programmaticallly find "where am I" in
 a feed, or anywhere that's not really user-facing.
 * no clear identifier that you're on a custom taxonomy, e.g. the second
 element is "tax-<taxonomy name>" so when you just want to know whether
 you're on a custom taxonomy page you have to do some custom parsing.

 You're right that get_body_class() would work better than the hacky way I
 currently get the current section, for the most part.

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