How to get the post type from a category id?

Question

I am trying to find out the post type from a category id.

Suppose that, when i am opening a category page

localhost/project/foobaar/category/pen

I want to know the post type to which category - pen is attached to. I have two custom post type named "book" and "copy" If category pen is associated with book, then it should return the post type as "book" Similarly if category is pencil, then it should return "copy" as i have used pencil category in "copy" post.

I was trying to do something like this as (i have the category id stored in variable but assume category id of pen is 12)

$args = array (
    posts_per_page => 1,
    category => '12' // category id of pen
    );
$posts = WP_Query( $args );

And from $posts I could get one post from which I could knew, but $args is using default post_type as 'posts' and my posts can be anything.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can just grab the first post from the main query and see which post type it is:

if ( have_posts() ) {
    $post_type = $wp_query->posts[0]->post_type;
}

If you run this code directly in a main template file you should be fine, but if it's in a function you will need to call global $wp_query; first.