[Resolved] Nested conditionals in content template

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[UNC Digital Services]

I am trying to:

I have a site on a multisite installation that is using a content template for a custom post type "Advertisements." The content template has conditionals for each of the seven different categories in the "Advertisements Types" taxonomy. The content template works fine except for two categories conditionals that also have another conditional inside of them. For only posts in the "solicitation-from-prequalified-contractor" and "public-meeting-notices" categories, the custom field shortcodes will not display their data, just the [types field="__"][/types] shortcode itself. I'm not sure if the nested conditionals are problem exactly, but the issue only occurs when there is nested conditionals.

Relevant code from the content template (the other category code is similar, just without nested conditionals):

<!-- CONSTRUTCION BID SOLICITATIONS FROM PRE-QUALIFIED CONTRACTORS -->
[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-taxonomy type="advertisement-type" format="slug"]' eq 'solicitation-from-prequalified-contractor')"]
<dl class="inline">
<dt>Project Name</dt> <dd>[types field='ad-project-name'][/types]</dd>
</dl> 
<strong>Bidding from prequalified firms on</strong>
<p>[types field='ad-bidding-from-prequalified-firms'][/types]</p>
<dl class="inline">
[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-ad-main-contact) ne '' )"]<dt>Main Contact for Submission</dt><dd>[types field='ad-main-contact'][/types]</dd>[/wpv-conditional]
[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-ad-design-firm) ne '' )"]<dt>Name of Design Firm</dt><dd>[types field='ad-design-firm'][/types]</dd>[/wpv-conditional]
[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-ad-design-firm-contact-name) ne '' )"]<dt>Design Firm Contact Name</dt><dd>[types field='ad-design-firm-contact-name'][/types]</dd>[/wpv-conditional]
<dt>Design Firm Telephone Number</dt><dd>[types field='ad-design-firm-phone'][/types]</dd>
<dt>Design Firm Email</dt><dd>[types field='ad-design-firm-email'][/types]</dd>
<dt>CM at Risk Firm Name</dt><dd>[types field='ad-cmar-firm-name'][/types]</dd>      
<dt>CM at Risk Firm Contact</dt><dd>[types field='ad-cmar-firm-contact'][/types]</dd>
<dt>CM at Risk Firm Telephone Number</dt><dd>[types field='ad-cmar-firm-phone'][/types]</dd>
<dt>CM at Risk Firm Email</dt><dd>[types field='ad-cmar-firm-email'][/types]</dd>
<dt>Campus Contact Name</dt><dd>[types field='ad-campus-contact'][/types]</dd>
<dt>Campus Contact Telephone</dt><dd>[types field='ad-campus-contact-phone'][/types]</dd>
<dt>Campus Contact Email</dt><dd>[types field='ad-campus-contact-email'][/types]</dd>
<dt>Bid Date</dt><dd>[types field='ad-bid-date'][/types]</dd>
<dt>Bid Time</dt><dd>[types field='ad-bid-time'][/types]</dd>
</dl>
<strong>Bid Location</strong>  
<p>[types field='ad-bid-location'][/types]</p>
<p><strong>Advertisement Type:</strong>[wpv-post-taxonomy type="advertisement-type"]</p>  
[/wpv-conditional]

 <!-- PUBLIC MEETING NOTICES -!>-->
[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-taxonomy type="advertisement-type" format="slug"]' eq 'public-meeting-notices')"]
<dl class="inline">
<dt>Project Name</dt><dd> [types field='ad-project-name'][/types]</dd>
</dl>
<strong>Public Meeting For</strong>
<p>[types field='ad-public-meeting-for'][/types]</p>
<dl class="inline">
[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-ad-design-firm) ne '' )"]<dt>Name of Design Firm</dt><dd> [types field='ad-design-firm'][/types]</dd>[/wpv-conditional]
[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-ad-design-firm-contact-name) ne '' )"]<dt>Design Firm Contact Name</dt><dd> [types field='ad-design-firm-contact-name'][/types]</dd>[/wpv-conditional]
[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-ad-design-firm-phone) ne '' )"]<dt>Design Firm Telephone Number</dt><dd> [types field='ad-design-firm-phone'][/types]</dd>[/wpv-conditional]
<dt>Contact Email</dt><dd> [types field='ad-contact-email'][/types]</dd>
[wpv-conditional if="( $(wpcf-ad-campus-contact-email) ne '' )"]<dt>Campus Contact Email</dt><dd> [types field='ad-campus-contact-email'][/types]</dd>[/wpv-conditional]
<dt>Public Meeting Date</dt><dd> [types field='ad-public-meeting-date'][/types]</dd>
<dt>Public Meeting Time</dt><dd> [types field='ad-public-meeting-time'][/types]</dd>
</dl>
  <strong>Public Meeting Location</strong>
  <p>[types field='ad-public-meeting-location'][/types]</p>
  <p><strong>Advertisement Type:</strong> [wpv-post-taxonomy type="advertisement-type"]</p>
[/wpv-conditional]

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

I expected to see: Custom field data populated on the page

Instead, I got: Types field shortcode where custom field data should be displayed

[Shane]

Hello,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Would you mind providing me with admin access so that I can take a look ?

The private fields will be enabled for your next response.

Thanks,
Shane

[UNC Digital Services]

Unfortunately I cannot give you admin access as this is a restricted login system from a university. Is there anything I can post to help you troubleshoot?

[Christian Cox]

Hi, Shane is on public holiday so I'll try to help. I've seen issues like this in certain versions of PHP, where our regex algorithms break down with medium to large blocks of content and conditionals, resulting in shortcodes written out to the page. As a quick test, can you turn off pcre.jit by adding this line to your php.ini file?

pcre.jit= 0

If you're not able to modify php.ini, you can try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:

ini_set('pcre.jit', false);

Give that a quick run and see if it makes any difference. If not, I'll be glad to take a closer look.

[UNC Digital Services]

Unfortunately that did not work, as this setting has been set to false since before the issue began.

[UNC Digital Services]

Actually, looks like we've solved the issue. We're not quite sure how exactly since we tried multiple options to fix the issue, but it may have been a plugin conflict or some errant code.

Thanks for the help.