Function Reference/doing filter

Description

Checks to see if a filter is currently being applied.

 <?php doing_filter($filter); ?>

$filter: (string) (optional) The name of the filter to check for, if omitted will check for any filter being applied

To check whether the 'posts_results' filter is being applied you could write something similar to this:

 if(doing_filter('posts_results')){
   //Do Something Here
 }

To check if any filter is being applied you could write something like this:

 if(doing_filter()){
   //Do Something Here
 }

doing_filter() is located in wp-includes/plugin.php

Filters: add_filter(), current_filter(), has_filter(), apply_filters(), remove_filter()

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