How to show the archive / post type description on Single templates
Within the loop, you can do it this way, outside of the loop, pass the post ID to get_post_type function. : // Within the loop $cpt = get_post_type_object(get_post_type()); if($cpt !== NULL) { echo $cpt->name; echo $cpt->description; } If you need to see more about get_post_type_object you can find it in codex.