is_home(), is_archive() not Working? Here is a Fix

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1. Nimit kashyap (7 comments.) says:

   1/16/2010 at 3:16 pm

   I will bookmark this post for future reference..thanks
2. Lucas Dillmann (1 comments.) says:

   1/16/2010 at 9:01 pm

   For me its still working nice on WordPress 2.9.1…
3. mercime says:

   1/17/2010 at 3:35 am

   Learned wp_reset_query from MichaelH at WordPress.org forums – especially for conditional statements in sidebar.
   Cheers.
4. westi (3 comments.) says:

   1/17/2010 at 5:58 am

   The problem is likely that you are trying to use the template tags after you have run a second query and loop in your page and so you have overwritten the default query that WordPress runs for your page/post.

   Basically, you have called query_posts() to fetch some extra information and now the global $wp_query object references your new query (as that is what you want so all the template tags work when you run it as a loop).

   Once you have finished with this second query you need to call wp_reset_query() so as to set the $wp_query back to be the one that WordPress ran for the current post/page.

   Then these template tags will reflect that query.
   • Alfred Armstrong (1 comments.) says:

     1/17/2010 at 1:07 pm

     Note that it’s often a plugin that’s responsible. Some plugins really screw with the global wordpress variables. You’ll commonly see the effect with widgets, where installing a new, poorly-written widget plugin causes others to break.
   • Ashfame (12 comments.) says:

     1/18/2010 at 8:46 am

     That explains everything!
5. Sabuj Kundu aka manchumahara (4 comments.) says:

   1/17/2010 at 4:04 pm

   I wrote an article about this problem. pls check this link http://blog.manchumahara.com/2.....ing-in-wp/
6. bubazoo (213 comments.) says:

   1/17/2010 at 11:56 pm

   I’ve always had that problem with those condition tags, I don’t know waht your talking about. lol
7. Sergej Müller (1 comments.) says:

   1/18/2010 at 7:19 am

   Posted 8 months ago: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/269988
8. Sabuj Kundu aka manchumahara (4 comments.) says:

   1/19/2010 at 3:49 am

   I have noticed many plugin developer used query_posts which is problematic for conditional tags, Sometimes conditional tags works fine in header.php but give wrong result in footer.php and other section. So my own work or any plugin I install I always search is there any string matching query_posts and use my own technique to solve

   in functions.php (in my current theme) I put a function
   
function php4_clone($object) {
if (version_compare(phpversion(), '5.0') < 0) {
return $object;
} else {
return @clone($object);
}
}
//end php4_clone


   WordPress has a function named wp_clone() which can be used too.

   …
   and use this to keep backup of current default wp query and restore after custom query using query_posts
   
//keep backup
$temp_query = php4_clone($wp_query);
...
query_posts(....);
....
//restore
$wp_query = php4_clone($temp_query);


   Many times I got bad situation for this as conditional tags were not working in many places.

   guys let me know how u think about my code style.
9. James (1 comments.) says:

   3/1/2010 at 3:44 am

   Hi

   I have the folowing code in my sidebar.php file for WordPress

   ` post_content;?>
   post_content;?>
   post_content;?>
   post_content;?> `

   But the conditional archive code isn’t working as you can see here:

   http://www.thebreadcrumbtrail.org/archives/533

   I have noted however, that my archive file is called archive.php without the ‘s’.
   But, I changed it to s, and it made no difference.

   Any ideas warmly welcomed!
10. serge (1 comments.) says:

    2/27/2011 at 12:34 pm

    i’m executing the same code that works fine in wp 3.05 and breaks in wp 3.1

    brief
    my own plugin ovewrites wp_query after wp_reset_query to get posts by their type (executed in the middle of wp_head hook )

    then a custom code from functions.php checks the query at the very end of the wp_head hook (99) and it shows that the query args where changed to get posts by their type (custom type “painting” ) but it shows wp_query is_archive 1 and empty taxonomy or term …

    weird,
    looks like is_home but shows like is_archive

    any ideas ?

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