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is_archive › WordPress Function

Since1.5.0

Deprecatedn/a

› is_archive ( No parameters )

See:	is_category() is_tag() is_author() is_date() is_post_type_archive() is_tax()
Returns:	(bool) Whether the query is for an existing archive page.
Defined at:	wp-includes/query.php , line 161
Codex:	developer.wordpress.org / is_archive

Determines whether the query is for an existing archive page.

Archive pages include category, tag, author, date, custom post type, and custom taxonomy based archives. For more information on this and similar theme functions, check out the {@link Conditional Tags} article in the Theme Developer Handbook.

Source

function is_archive() {
	global $wp_query;

	if ( ! isset( $wp_query ) ) {
		_doing_it_wrong( __FUNCTION__, __( 'Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false.' ), '3.1.0' );
		return false;
	}

	return $wp_query->is_archive();
}