My apologies ... I thought I remembered this working at some point before, but it looks like I was wrong.
is_admin() does indeed work when used in functions.php. So, as a followup question ... what hooks are best to use if I want to be able to use the conditionals? Someone already mentioned template_redirect ... are there any others? Is there a good resource that defines what hooks are fired before and after WP knows what type of query it is? Thanks! ------------------ Nathan Rice WordPress and Web Development www.nathanrice.net | twitter.com/nathanrice On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Peter Westwood <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2010, at 05:21, Nathan Rice wrote: > > As this post points out: >> >> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/01/16/fix-for-is_home-is_archive-not-working/ >> >> conditional tags like is_home(), is_page, is_archive(), etc., are all >> seemingly not working. I've noticed this as well (running 2.9.1). >> >> I believe that it might work in some circumstances (like in the loop?), >> but >> I am currently running into the problem when trying to conditionally do >> something in the theme's functions.php file. >> >> The article linked to above suggests using wp_reset_query() before using a >> conditional, but that does NOT work in functions.php, though it may work >> in >> a file like footer.php. >> >> Does anyone have any clue as to why this is happening? I dumped the >> $wp_query object and all the conditionals in them have null values, which >> is >> of course why conditional tags aren't working ... which begs the question, >> why isn't the $wp_query object returning accurate values for the >> conditionals? >> >> I'm stumped. Any takers? >> > > I have replied on the post as the example there looks very much like a call > to query_posts has been made to run a second query. > > As said by others, you cannot use any of the query related conditionals > until the query has been run. > > This means that you have to use a hook like template_redirect from a plugin > or functions.php to do conditional specific things. > > Basically any hook which runs after WP::query_posts(). > > Cheers > > Peter > -- > Peter Westwood > http://blog.ftwr.co.uk | http://westi.wordpress.com > C53C F8FC 8796 8508 88D6 C950 54F4 5DCD A834 01C5 > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
