Ok, I have quite a few CPT's on my latest project. Most of the CPT's are only used to display metabox content linking to pdfs, etc. I looked around and couldn't find quite what I was looking for, but thought I could setup a function that calls the standard archive.php template if the post type is "posts" and if not it could call the archive-cpt.php file.
If anyone has seen something like that, or has set something like that up and wouldn't mind sharing their code, it would be appreciated.
Take a look at the Template Hierarchy section of the Codex that concerns Custom Post types.
- archive-{post_type}.php - If the post type were product, WordPress would look for archive-product.php.
- archive.php
- index.php
What you are describing is built in, down to the file naming pattern-- archive-cpt.php
To load the same template for all CPT archives use:
function not_post_archive_wpse_107931($template) {
if (is_post_type_archive()) {
$template = get_stylesheet_directory().'/archive-cpt.php';
}
return $template;
}
add_filter('template_include','not_post_archive_wpse_107931');
That will hijack all CPT archives so I would be very careful with it. It could lead to great frustration if someone can't figure out why a CPT archive is not loading the expected template.
Barely tested. Possibly buggy. Caveat emptor. No refunds.
get_template_directory not get_template_directory_uri