hide a featured image caption

  • Resolved visioncreativewilson

    (@visioncreativewilson)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    The following is what I use to check for a featured image with caption:

    <?php // Checking for a post thumbnail
        if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
        <div style="float:left; width:auto; padding-right:5px;">
	<div style="float:left; position:relative;">
        <?php the_post_thumbnail("news-large", array('class' => 'enewspost')); echo '<div style="width:auto;"><p class="wp-caption-thumbnail">'.get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_excerpt. '</p></div>'; ?>
        </div>
	</div>
        <div>
        <?php the_content();?>
        </div>
 <?php }
	else { ?>

    the <p class wp-caption> has styling elements like grey background, my question is:

    If the caption is empty, how can I get the <p class> to hide?

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  • try to use a ternary operator to check the existence of the caption (example – untested):

    <?php the_post_thumbnail("news-large", array('class' => 'enewspost')); echo '<div style="width:auto;">' . ( get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_excerpt ? '<p class="wp-caption-thumbnail">'.get_post(get_post_thumbnail_id())->post_excerpt. '</p>' : '' ). '</div>'; ?>
    Thread Starter visioncreativewilson

    (@visioncreativewilson)

    Success! Thank you very much!

    Could you possibly explain that solution? I’m not much of a php programmer, and after some research, I thought I would have to incorporate something like this:

    if (!empty($thumbnail_image[0]->post_excerpt))

    Thanks again

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