how to parse what type of page i'm on

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how to parse what type of page i'm on

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Started 4 years ago by snack
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snack
Member
i'm trying to do something similar. there's a bunch of stuff i want to insert using thematic_belowheader(), depending on what type of page i'm on. unfortunately, i think i'll be using these for section headings (they have to be images because of the font), so the conditional tree will actually be pretty big. seems like a stupid way of doing it, but i can't come up with anything better.

anyway, as a result, i'd really like to have a robust "what type of page" function, that i can throw at anything. right now i'm just trying to parse these page types:
- front page
- post
- page
- blog/multipost/archive/etc
this is what i've got so far:
```
function my_belowheader() {
// Get $post if you're inside a function
global $post;

	if ( is_front_page() ) {
		$content = 'front page';
	} elseif ( is_page() ) {
		$content = 'a page';
	} elseif ( is_post() ) {
		$content = 'a post';
	} else {
		$content = 'multipage';
	}

	echo $content;
}
add_filter('thematic_belowheader','my_belowheader');
```
it works on pages & front page, but on posts or multipost pages it give me a undefined function is_post() error.

can anyone help me on this?

i'm also wondering if there's a better place to be doing page parsing than in thematic_belowheader()??

thanks.
Posted 4 years ago #
snack
Member
update: error was coming from the fact that there's no such thing as is_post(). i have no idea where i got that.

here's what i have now:
```
if ( is_front_page() ) {
		$content = 'front page';
	} elseif ( is_page() ) {
		$content = 'a page';
	} elseif ( is_single() ) {
		$content = 'a post';
	} elseif ( is_404() ) {
		$content = '404';
	} elseif ( is_home() || is_archive() || is_category() ) {
		$content = 'multipost';
	} else {
		$content = 'something else';
	}
```
i'm still wondering:
is thematic_belowheader() the best place to do this? is this the best way?

and most importantly -- are there other multipost categories that i left out???

thanks.
Posted 4 years ago #
Chris
Moderator

Hi,

.. with is_archive() you cover pretty much everything that was left over. You could split it up into is_day(), is_month(), is_year(), is_tag, or is_category() if needed.

As long as you remember that the area thematic_belowheader() has the same dimensions like the header :-)

Cheers,

Chris

Posted 4 years ago #

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