Conditional Shortcode not working

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Problem: I have a conditional tag that does not appear to be working correctly.

Solution: Check the syntax and try nesting double quotes and single quotes like this:

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Last updated by brianD-10 6 years, 7 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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March 23, 2018 at 8:10 pm #627883

brianD-10

I am trying to: Use the conditional shortcode

Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link

I expected to see: Tests to display "working" text with conditional shortcode.

Instead, I got: Nothing is displayed.

Reference: https://toolset.com/documentation/beyond-the-basics/conditionally-show-content/

March 25, 2018 at 9:29 pm #628131

Christian Cox

I think you're seeing some problems with nested quotation marks. I made the following changes:

Conditional using squigly brace test:

{!{wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-tagline2) ne '' )"}!}Works{!{/wpv-conditional}!}

Conditional using shortcode test:

[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-tagline2) ne '' )"]Works[/wpv-conditional]

End.

Now I see "Works" appear in both locations. Can you confirm?

March 26, 2018 at 5:15 pm #628453

brianD-10

Gotcha, thanks! FYI the broken shortcode was produced by your WYSIWYG button, so you should probably note this as a bug. See attached screenshot.