Echo current custom post type

Question

I have a all my custom post types list together in blog format. What I'm trying to do is echo the post type name on each post.

I tried this:

get_post_type_object('post');
echo $obj->labels->singular_name;

But it just displayed "Post" for everything instead of the custom post type name

Answer 1

If you are within The Loop, try:

$post_type = get_post_type( $post->ID );
echo $post_type;

Does this work for you?

Answer 2

Inside the loop you already have a $post object available to you, you don't need to call get_post_type or any other functions, this should do the trick.

<?php echo $post->post_type; ?>

Or if you like the idea of calling get_post_type you can make the task easier for the function by passing it the post object you have(so it doesn't need to go fetch the post, just to extract one property from it).

<?php echo get_post_type( $post ); ?>

Else, get_post_type will needlessly call get_post to fetch the post object (an object you already have available to you nonetheless).

Hope that helps..

Answer 3

Reading the docs at http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_type_object you must pass it the custom post type as argument!

Try with:

get_post_type_object('your-post-type');
echo $obj->labels->singular_name;