same archive template for different custom post

Question

Suppose i have registered five custom post type like this

america
china
nepal
norway
chile

And to template the archive i should use like this inside theme folder isn't it?

archive-america.php
archive-china.php

and so on?

But the thing is all of them have same code? And i don't want to make five files with same coding ? And basically it violates DRY as welll

Is there any hooks etc. like template redirect etc so that i can use one php file for such selected custom post type like

archive-country.php

i know i can use archive.php but i want to show same teamplate for some selected custom post .

Is it possible?

thank you

Answer 1

There are template filters for all types of queries. You could use archive_template in this case.

function wpd210689_template_filter( $archive_template ) {
    $post_types = array( 'america', 'china', 'nepal', 'norway', 'chile' );
    if ( is_post_type_archive ( $post_types ) ) {
        $archive_template = locate_template( 'archive-country.php' );
    }
    return $archive_template;
}
add_filter( 'archive_template', 'wpd210689_template_filter' ) ;