Using Conditional Statements

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!