Make Archives.php Include Custom Post Types

Karim

# October 18, 2011

Can I make the search to include custom posts too in the results?

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Rui

# October 29, 2011

Yes.

Put this in your functions.php

// Define what post types to search
function searchAll( $query ) {
	if ( $query->is_search ) {
		$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'page', 'feed', 'custom_post_type1', 'custom_post_type2'));
	}
	return $query;
}

// The hook needed to search ALL content
add_filter( 'the_search_query', 'searchAll' );

I also assume you already added ‘publicly_queryable’ => true, to the $args array of your CPT.

hope it helps

Paul

Permalink to comment# January 29, 2013

Oh man, I’ve been hacking at this for two days straight! THANK YOU for this simple to implement solution!

Mohit Kumar

# November 16, 2011

I am having issues in using this snippet. It gives me white screen of depth. I tried on wordpress forums too. But cant get to display custom post types in archives

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Jonathan

# December 21, 2011

Thanks for posting this! It worked a treat.

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alamedagraphik

# January 9, 2012

thanks for this code snippets to archived the custom post type.
In the past i used a pluggin (“Simple custom post type archives”) to archive the custom post type and in my theme i had to use a file to display all custom posts type archive.
but now it’s more simple!
thank you again

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Cav

# January 23, 2012

Can you give a slight bit more detail like…

How does it know to only do this on the archives page? etc….

Its a short snippet so I don’t think it would be much trouble. Thanks in advance.

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David

# January 30, 2012

Solved that problem – getting custom post types to display in an archive page – however mega menu goes blank, some images not displaying on welcome page, welcome page slider menu/nav is not working…

WP3.2.1, Magazinum Theme, Design Chemical Mega Menu, Custom Post Types UI

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Imran Hunzai

# February 11, 2012

Thanks but I don’t think this addition to functions.php file will really altar to include custom post types. I agree with Cav. There must be a detailed tutorial.

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cudjex

# February 12, 2012

thanks..

i did it :)

if( is_home() || is_tag() && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) )

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Jon B

# April 9, 2012

Also include ‘nav_menu_item’ if you don’t want your menus to disappear!

function namespace_add_custom_types( $query ) {
  if( is_category() || is_tag() && empty( $query->query_vars['suppress_filters'] ) ) {
    $query->set( 'post_type', array(
     'post', 'nav_menu_item', 'your-custom-post-type-here'
		));
	  return $query;
	}
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'namespace_add_custom_types' );

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Thomas

Permalink to comment# September 6, 2012

Hi and thanks for the code snippet!

I have a theme which displays recent posts on the author.php template and unfortunately nav_menu_items are displayed as posts (with empty content). Without nav_menu_item the navigation menu is gone so I’m looking for something that adds custom post types to my archives without integrating the nav_menu_items anywhere else…

I couldn’t find any solution so far so any help would be highly appreciated!

Cheers,
Thomas
SM

Permalink to comment# January 3, 2013

Yes, including “nav_menu_item” was the key for me. Thanks so much, John B.

Marcus J Wilson

# April 10, 2012

Thanks for the menu tip, Jon B – just what I was looking for.

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Sangsaka

# April 16, 2012

I have 1 CPT called as “product”. This CPT has unique format/design ( not like regular wordpress posts ) but has same capability ( tags and categories). How can I separate this custom post type in homepage, archive, etc. ???

Thanks, :)

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Iryna

# April 26, 2012

Love it! Worked like a charm.
Thanks guys!

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Ana

# May 3, 2012

with suppress filters you can affect also the attachment pages

A possible solution
function my_get_posts( $query ) {
if(!is_admin() || is_archive()){
if (!is_post_type_archive() && $query->is_main_query() )
$query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘post’, ‘page’, ‘post-format’, ‘video’, ‘slideshow’, ‘timeline’ ) );

return $query;
}
}
!is_admin – without this are affected also the searches in admin pages.
A demo here:
http://www.zurita-bach.com/
At this moment I have only timeline as custom post

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Ana

# May 5, 2012

Replace $query->$query->is_main_query()
with $query->is_archive()

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Riss

# May 5, 2012

Thanks Jon B you are the boss!

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alvar

# May 9, 2012

I’ve found that this creates a problem querying a post_type and a cat.

You can see this in the backend by visiting a category list for a custom post type:
Click the Category menu item in a custom type, then click the number to see the posts in that cat.
wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=some_cat&post_type=some_type

You’ll see the posts displayed seem to be every type BUT the queried one.
Even with Ana’s solution that is supposedly excluding admin.

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Ana

# May 10, 2012

Hi alvar my final solution
add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘my_get_posts’ );

function my_get_posts( $query ) {
if(!is_admin()){
if (!is_post_type_archive() && $query->is_archive())
$query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘post’, ‘page’, ‘post-format’, ‘video’, ‘slideshow’, ‘timeline’ ) );

return $query;
}
}

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Iris

# July 19, 2012

Saved my day. Thanks!

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Gus

# July 31, 2012

I think Ana’s code is getting close to a solution.

The problem on my end is that I have widgets that display custom post types. E.g. “Random Testimonial”, “Latest Tip” etc.

On the pages where this function is being used (the category archive for my custom post type), these widgets are getting confused, and show the content of a different post type – so the random testimonial widget might instead show a random tip.

Any idea what I can do, either to this function or to my widgets, to get them to play nice together?

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deepak

# August 9, 2012

Thanks for the code…It worked as treat for me…And it is the same i was looking for:)

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Gus

# August 9, 2012

Ok, my problem was that this was making all my widgets (E.g. latest testimonial) pull the wrong post type.

Here’s the code I solved it with.


/* Allow ht_news post type to use category template without affecting widgets
======================================================= */
function my_get_posts( $query ) {
	if(!is_admin()) {
		/*
		if ht_news is already in the $post_types array then this function has probably already been executed
		and we don't want to run it again, because that makes all our widgets display ht_news instead 
		of their own post type
		*/
		$post_types = get_query_var('post_type');
		if(in_array('ht_news',$post_types)) {
	    	$post_type = 'ht_news';
	    }
		if (!is_post_type_archive() && $query->is_archive() && $post_type != 'ht_news') {
			$query->set('post_type',array('ht_news','nav_menu_item') );
			return $query;
		}
	}
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

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leandra

# September 6, 2012

This code snippet saved my bacon… one question… how would you include additional arguments like &orderby=title and &order=asc? Thanks!

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Daan

# September 25, 2012

This worked best for me:

// Add custom post types to archives
function custom_post_archive($query) {
    if ($query->is_archive)
        $query->set( 'post_type', array('your_custom_type_here', 'nav_menu_item', 'post') );
    remove_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'custom_post_archive' );
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'custom_post_archive');

It kept the navigation, my widgets and custom query on the home page intact.

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Elshereef

# September 30, 2012

Daan’s Solution works perfect.

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Nicola Elvin

# October 7, 2012

Works a treat that last post, thanks! However…it now means in the wp-admin, in each custom post list ui, all the different custom post types show up apart from just that one we have clicked on

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Andrew

Permalink to comment# October 9, 2012

This same thing happens for me, as well. I’m using Daan’s code and if I can fix this small issue, it’ll be exactly what I need.
Lindsey

Permalink to comment# February 1, 2013
Granted I know this comment is about 4 months old, but I did figure out how to fix this issue.

In your functions.php file where you have created your custom post type, change this line:
```
FROM:
'has_archive' => true,

TO:
'has_archive' => false,
```
And that should fix the issue! :) It did on my end anyways, so I hope it helps others!

Xavier

# January 7, 2013

The code Dann is perfect for troubleshooting with Widgets, but give me a problem when displaying Custom Post Type on the menu if besides “is_category” added “is_tag” solve it this way:

function view_AllCustomPost($query) {
if ($query->is_category) $query->set( ‘post_type’, array(
‘post’, ‘nav_menu_item’, ‘custom_post_type’)
);

elseif ($query->is_tag) $query->set( 'post_type', array(
        'post', 'nav_menu_item', 'custom_post_type')
);
remove_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'view_AllCustomPost' );

}
add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘view_AllCustomPost’);

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David

# February 12, 2013

We were recently tasked with updating a legacy WP site and this thread helped a treat, our navigation items disappeared though so make sure to add “nav_menu_item” back in.

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Eric Curtis

# March 24, 2013

I had better luck modifying the main query.

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/27104/how-to-display-regular-posts-custom-post-types-that-fall-under-a-category-usin

add_action('pre_get_posts', 'add_my_custom_post_type');

/**
 * @param WP_Query $query
 * @return WP_Query
 */
function add_my_custom_post_type($query) {
if(
    empty($query->query['post_type'])
    or $query->query['post_type'] === 'post'
){
    $query->set('post_type', array('post', 'my_custom_type'));
}
}

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Eric Curtis

# March 24, 2013

Ok my above comment did not work after all. Where I have been running into problems is on an archive page for a custom post type. I was able to get everything working with this:

function custom_post_archive($query) {
if(!is_admin()) {
if (!is_post_type_archive() && $query->is_archive())
  $query->set( 'post_type', array('projects', 'nav_menu_item', 'post','team') );
    remove_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'custom_post_archive' );
    }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'custom_post_archive');

Hope this helps someone, because it was a bear to figure out ; )

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