Hello,
There’s an [if] shortcode for simple conditionals (no post found, first/last post, every X posts). I can imagine some parameters could be added to further filter the loop.. Do you mean something like this?
[loop type="post"]
[content field="title"]
[if in_category="cat1, cat5, cat7"]
Display something
[/if]
[if taxonomy="status" has_term="discount"]
On sale!
[/if]
[/loop]
However, an inherent limitation of shortcodes is that they can’t be nested within itself, so [if] cannot be inside another [if].
For complex queries, you may need to break it up into several loops, or write it in PHP – although it would be nice to find an elegant solution.
Yeah I was basically looking for a condition such is ‘in_category’ to show a call to action if the post in the loop has a specific category.
I can do this easily in PHP but was just wondering if this could also be accomplished in a shortcode – I have found your plugin is especially useful in Genesis themes – I don’t use them all that often but when I do this plugin has become a go-to solution that is much simpler than creating multiple templates or loop functions.
I hadn’t given any thought to nested ‘if’ statements in shortcodes so that’s useful new information for me.
Thanks for your answer, I appreciate it.
Hello,
I added a few parameters to the [if] shortcode to filter by category or taxonomy term. Please see the latest update.
The parameters are used like this:
[loop type="post"]
[content field="title"]
[if category="cat1, cat5, cat7"]
Display something
[/if]
[if taxonomy="status" term="discount"]
On sale!
[/if]
[if not taxonomy="status" term="discount"]
Regular price
[/if]
[/loop]
Hopefully that will add more flexibility to the loop. I appreciate the suggestion!
This works like a charm. Thank you!
