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1. Pete
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   is there a way to make a conditional thingy so that IF there is no 'content' in a post THEN ...

   thanks

2. asechrest
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Not totally sure, but the global variable $content holds the content of a post.

   So I wonder if you could use if(empty($content)) in some way to check if a post has no content?

3. Pete
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'd love to know how to do this as it would be great to be able to fall back on a custom field if there is no content?

4. Pete
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   bump

5. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   global variable $content holds the content of a post.

   Doesn't work as a global for me (i tested to confirm - inside the loop).
   

   print_r( $content );

   and then..
   

   global $content; // To see if the var is actually available just outside the scope of my call..
   print_r( $content );

   Nothing on the page.

   You could use something like ...
   

   if( empty( $post->post_content) ) {
   // Do whatever you want here
   }
   else {
   the_content(); // Or whatever
   }

   Which does seem to work...

6. Pete
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   cheers

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