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I am attempting to ensure a widget is only loaded on blog post pages.

I tried using $post_type = get_post_type( $post_id ); inside the widget function of my widget class. However, upon loading pages like the homepage, 'archives', 'categories' etc. . . the post type is always 'post'. The only exception is when I create a page, it returns 'page' as expected.

Is there a way to actually ensure the current page is a post?

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I think you're looking for is_single():

if ( is_single() ) {
    // Do widget, which will only appear on single-post templates
}
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  • This will still allow it to load on 'page' post types. However, this solved the problem I was having. I can implement another filter with get_post_type() in addition to using is_single() if I really need to limit to just posts. Thank you!
    – sheldonkreger
    Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 23:28
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    Makes sense, you could do something like if (is_single() && !is_page()) { do_widget(); }
    – Benjamin Love
    Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 23:31

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