Display specific info in a list item based on post's custom field?

  • Frank

    (@fwusquare2com)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hello, your plugin is serving me well on several projects! I now have a question about whether the following is possible, can W4PL display specific info in a list item based on whether the post has a particular custom field with data?

    A client has a video site on which I have created a compact listing displaying video thumbnails, video title, and excerpt much like the way you would see a mobile app dedicated to news. They generally have a shorter “preview” video (average 1 min 30 sec ) and a longer “full” version of the video (average 15 min). I have set the Home page listing to display only preview video listings of various categories.

    The client would like to have a link on each list item to be able to link to the full video version for those that have them. I have created a custom field (“full_version”) within the preview video posts that has the URL to the full version video and modified my template to display <a href="[post_meta key="full_version"]" >View full version of video</a> in the video title. However, this currently appears on all the list items whether or not the post has the relevant custom field. I want to know if it would be possible to only display this link only if a post has that specific “full_version” custom field entered with data. If so, would you be able to provide a guide as how to do this?

    My full template for reference below.

    Regards,
    Frank

    <ul class="home-list">
    [posts]
      <li class="home-brief-article">
<div class="home-brief-thumb"><a href="[post_permalink]">[post_thumbnail width="60px" height="60px"]</a></div>
<div class="home-brief-title-and-excerpt">
     <h2 class="post-title"><a href="[post_permalink]">[post_title]</a> <em class="link-full">- <a href="[post_meta key="full_version"]" >View full version of video</a></em></h2>
     <p class="home-excerpt">[post_excerpt wordlimit="20"]</p>
</div>
<div style="clear:both;"></div></li>
    [/posts]
</ul>

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  • Plugin Author Shazzad Hossain Khan

    (@sajib1223)

    I can understand that this feature would be really good, but there’s no such a shortcode in our plugin to compare meta data existence or value.

    Will try to work on it, and maybe it will be available on the next release.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter Frank

    (@fwusquare2com)

    Whether or not you would be able to add such a function, thank you for the consideration! That would be a bonus and quite a useful feature.

    Regards,
    Frank

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