is_archive()

Determines whether the query is for an existing archive page.


Description

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 Conditional Tags article in the Theme Developer Handbook.

See also


Return

(bool) Whether the query is for an existing archive page.


Source

File: wp-includes/query.php

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.' ), 'WP-3.1.0' );
		return false;
	}

	return $wp_query->is_archive();
}


Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
1.5.0 Introduced.