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 <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/conditional-tags/">https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/conditional-tags/</a> Conditional Tags article in the Theme Developer Handbook.
Return
bool
Whether the query is for an existing archive page.
161functionis_archive(){162global$wp_query;163164if(!isset($wp_query)){165_doing_it_wrong(__FUNCTION__,__('Conditional query tags do not work before the query is run. Before then, they always return false.'),'3.1.0');166returnfalse;167}168169return$wp_query->is_archive();170}
History
Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
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