Post excerpt empty but page content loading

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Problem: [wpv-post-excerpt] seems to output the post body content when the post excerpt field is empty. This is breaking some conditionals that rely on the value of the post excerpt field.

Solution: [wpv-post-excerpt] will fall back to display part of the post body if the post excerpt field is empty. The way to work around this is to create a custom shortcode that returns the actual value of the post excerpt field. Add this code to functions.php:

add_shortcode('wpv-post-real-excerpt', 'real_excerpt_shortcode');
function real_excerpt_shortcode() {
  global $post;
  return $post->post_excerpt;
}

Then you should be able to modify your conditional like this:

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-real-excerpt]' ne '' )"] [wpv-post-excerpt length="230" count="character" more="..." format="noautop"][/wpv-conditional]

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Last updated by Dallin Chase 7 years, 5 months ago.

Assisted by: Christian Cox.

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June 12, 2017 at 5:37 pm #535702

Dallin Chase

I am trying to: Load the expert when it had a value in it. But not load the post body content when it has a value and the excerpt is blank.

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Instead, I got: When the excerpt is empty but there is text in the body. The body text loads.

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Here is the code I am currently using:
[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-excerpt]' ne '' )"] [wpv-post-excerpt length="230" count="character" more="..." format="noautop"][/wpv-conditional]

June 12, 2017 at 7:58 pm #535760

Christian Cox

Hi, as I understand it the [wpv-post-excerpt] shortcode will output the post body if you don't provide an excerpt for the post, so your conditional won't work as expected. Instead you could create your own custom shortcode that outputs the actual post excerpt value, then test that value in your conditional.

Add this code to functions.php:

add_shortcode('wpv-post-real-excerpt', 'real_excerpt_shortcode');
function real_excerpt_shortcode() {
  global $post;
  return $post->post_excerpt;
}

Then you should be able to modify your conditional like this:

 [wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-post-real-excerpt]' ne '' )"] [wpv-post-excerpt length="230" count="character" more="..." format="noautop"][/wpv-conditional]

Let me know if this doesn't work for you.

June 14, 2017 at 3:44 pm #536745

Dallin Chase

This worked perfectly! Thank you Christian.