Apply Filters Causing a 500 Internal Server Error

Question

I have a custom post type and need to display it in a certain way. I would like other posts to display as normal. When I tried to use the following code to accomplish this, I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

global $post;


//do this only for custom type
  if (!(get_post_type()=='customt'))
  {
    $rawContent = $post->post_content;
    $formattedContent = apply_filters('the_content',$rawContent);
    echo $formattedContent;
    return;
  }

I have googled around and found a lot of things regarding .htaccess but I don't think that is the case here. If I comment out the apply filters line ($formattedContent =...) and echo raw content, the post displays, but without formatting of course.

What am I doing wrong when I am trying to apply a filter?

Answer 1

Please try to replace your snippet with the following. The global $post isn't needed, when it's outside a function or method context and inside the loop, as then $post is already global and get_post_type()s default false arg with be replaced with $post inside the function.

if ( 'customt' !== get_post_type() )
    return print apply_filters( 'the_content', $post->post_content );

Also make sure, that you're not calling it on some too early filter, like plugins_loaded or init, as the global $post object wouldn't be setup up.

Answer 2

Post type name shouldn't contain capital letters.

Also try pass $post object to get_post_type() function

Like this:

if(!get_post_type($post)=='customT'){
   //code
}