What you need is hooking template_include filter and selectively load your template inside plugin. As a good practice, if you plan to distribute your plugin, you should check if archive-my_plugin_lesson.php (or maybe myplugin/archive-lesson.php) exists in theme, if not use the plugin version. In this way is easy for users replace the template via theme (or … Read more
To get the current post type use get_post_type(). Then ask get_post_type_object() for all the data you need, for example the slug: $post_type = get_post_type(); if ( $post_type ) { $post_type_data = get_post_type_object( $post_type ); $post_type_slug = $post_type_data->rewrite[‘slug’]; echo $post_type_slug; }
Yes, you can. All you need is make a filter for wp_get_archives(); so it accepts post_type parameter: function my_custom_post_type_archive_where($where,$args){ $post_type = isset($args[‘post_type’]) ? $args[‘post_type’] : ‘post’; $where = “WHERE post_type=”$post_type” AND post_status=”publish””; return $where; } then call this: add_filter( ‘getarchives_where’,’my_custom_post_type_archive_where’,10,2); Whenever you want to display archive by custom post type, just pass the post_type args: … Read more
After you have set a static page as your home page you can add this to your functions.php and you are good to go. This will call the archive-POSTTYPE.php template correctly as well. add_action(“pre_get_posts”, “custom_front_page”); function custom_front_page($wp_query){ //Ensure this filter isn’t applied to the admin area if(is_admin()) { return; } if($wp_query->get(‘page_id’) == get_option(‘page_on_front’)): $wp_query->set(‘post_type’, ‘CUSTOM … Read more
The has_archive parameter for register_post_type() does exactly what you expect it to do. However, it modifies rewrite rules when set. So, if you change it to false, you’ll need to flush your rewrite rules in order for the archive index display to be removed entirely.