I'm working on creating a notification that will indicate when a post is less than a few days old. This is specifically for a custom post type called "news". Is there a way to use `global $post;` with custom post types? This is my original code. <?php global $post; $postdate = str_replace("-", " ",substr($post->post_date, 0,10)); $postd = explode(" ", $postdate); $ageunix = get_the_time('U'); $days_old_in_seconds = ((time() - $ageunix)); $days_old = (($days_old_in_seconds/86400)); if ($days_old < 3) { ?> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $("#notification").addClass("notification-highlight"); }); </script> <?php } ?> I tried <?php $post_type = get_post_type(); if (($days_old < 3) && ($post_type == "news")) { ?> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $("#notification").addClass("notification-highlight"); }); </script> <?php } ?>