Custom template for post type not working

Question

I have a post type shopping and in my single.php I am trying to get a certain template for this post type. So I did:

\\ in the single.php
get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', get_post_format() );

and in template-parts directory, I created a file named content-shopping.php. But no matter what, the single template used is the default content.php.

However, if I do something like this:

if ( 'shopping' === get_post_type() ) {
  get_template_part( 'template-parts/content-shopping' );
}else{
  get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', get_post_format() );
}

then the template is used for that post type. I am not sure why the first method is not working. Any idea?

Answer 1

get_post_format and get_post_type are completely different.

Post Formats can be one of the following:

• 'standard' (default one)
• 'aside'
• 'chat'
• 'gallery'
• 'link'
• 'image'
• 'quote'
• 'status'
• 'video'
• 'audio'

And shopping is the post type you have created and not post format. You can add post format for the post type(shopping) like this

add_post_type_support( 'shopping', 'post-formats' );