is_archive(): bool

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.

More Information

is_archive() does not accept any parameters. If you want to check if this is the archive of a custom post type, use is_post_type_archive( $post_type )

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();
}

Changelog

VersionDescription
1.5.0Introduced.

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    Examples

    <?php
    if(is_archive())
        // write your code here ...
    ?>

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