DigitalMirrors

This isn’t a must have thing for me, My client isn’t currently using their calendar to take their payments. However, I’d like to better understand what is possible.

Putting this option on Sections doesn’t help that much.

If a section and all it’s children have to be set to actually fully hide a field it sounds like everything you want hidden separately has to be in it’s very own section.

It certainly doesn’t work for a business listing, with multiple phone numbers, websites and social links. Put each one in it’s own section, that doesn’t seem practical. I’m not sure if it would even work and I bet it would look ugly at the end if it did.

As I look at this more closely I see this happening on all fields not just those with images.

In very few circumstances do I see it be useful to keeping the space something occupies when you are hiding that item. For example:

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Phone: 1 (222) 333-4444
Mobile: 1 (222) 333-4445
Fax: 1 (222) 333-4446
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If the listing doesn’t have a Mobile, this becomes ugly:

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Phone: 1 (222) 333-4444

Fax: 1 (222) 333-4446
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You can make them inline sure, but if you add margin or padding then that still shows producing an ugly space.

I did find one work around that seems to work.

1. Install the free plugin Shortcoder.
2. Make a new shortcode using your acf field and
   information you want attached to it. For example:
   Mobile: [acf field=’mobile-phone’]
   That gives you a new shortcode: [sc name=”phones-mobile”][/sc]
3. Put the new Shortcoder shortcode into a text editor
4. Set Visibility to Show when the following condition is met under Dynamic Conditions:
   Shortcode – [sc name=”phones-mobile”][/sc]
   Condition – Contains
   Compare Type – Text
   Condition Value – ACF Field (Mobile Phone)

This gives you the much improved:
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Phone: 1 (222) 333-4444
Fax: 1 (222) 333-4446
—-

This works, but it does seem a bit ridiculous to have to create a new shortcode for each and every field to compare in this way if you don’t want the space to remain when a field is empty. It also means you have to add something extra to the new shortcode even for fields that you may not want a label on.

I’m not a programmer and don’t know the challenges. Is there anyway to something similar with your code to just get rid of all the space of the element itself when you are hiding it?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by DigitalMirrors. Reason: trying to clarify what I was saying
• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by DigitalMirrors. Reason: trying to clarify what I was saying
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Unfortunately, there are multiple phone number and link fields and it doesn’t seem practical to put each phone number and link for a record into a section.