[Resolved] Many-Many Relationship and Displaying of Categories accordingly for post

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[kennethS-4]

i have decided to switch it over to a new CPT created from Types, and it seems to be well. however i have another problem and I will describe the scenario here

There are 2 post types that I want to connect together
1) Post (with categories - Deals, News, Insights, Publications)
2) Members

I am connecting the 2 via the many-to-many relationship now, with a CPT - Members Posts
From this, I am able to retrieve the Post that I have associated the member with, and I can retrieve it vice versa.

I would like to do the retrieval of the post, based on a certain category (deals, news, insights, publications), and if available, display the taxonomy as the heading accordingly.

What I want to achieve
1) Get List of Post associated with Member
2) If there are Publications, display the heading "Publications", and show the posts with category Publications under the heading at all, otherwise do not display the heading at all.
3) Do the same for the other categories of post as well

This is what I have tried so far
-Put conditionals at the template view and put the heading manually in the top loop after [wpv-items-found]

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-taxonomy type='category' format='slug' id='$post']' eq 'publications' )"]
[wpv-post-link id="$post"] - [wpv-post-date format="F jS, Y" id="$post"]
[/wpv-conditional]

But if there are no associated publications, the heading Publications will still appear, as the query filter still returns posts for the other categories

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

This is what I have tried so far
-Put conditionals at the template view and put the heading manually in the top loop after [wpv-items-found]
==> What if you try to put heading just BEFORE the shortcode: [wpv-items-found]

[kennethS-4]

thanks for your reply. the publications heading still appears, as the query filter above still meets the requirements, ie its still a post that belongs to the member, but I am unable to only display in the respective categories.

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

As I understand you want to display posts underneath the category:

For example:
Category 1:
- post 1
- post 2
- post 3
Category 2:
- post 1
- post 2
- post 3
Category 3:

As per above example - you do not want to display "Category 3" as it does not have any posts - correct?

[kennethS-4]

yup! you are correct

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Could you please try to follow the steps give with the following link:
=> https://toolset.com/2015/07/how-to-group-posts-by-category/

And once you follow above step, you just need to put your heading name after the shortcode: [wpv-items-found]

That means if items found then dispaly the title otherwise not.