[Resolved] Using attribute tags in conditional statements

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[webadmins]

I am trying to:
Find another way to write [wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-attribute name='boxxy-description']' ne '' )"] that would not fail if boxxy-description contains a quote or single quote. Can we write this like [wpv-conditional if="( $wpv-attribute-boxxy-description ne '' )"]? Or something similar?

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I expected to see:
"Learn about picking and eating summer's sweet treat!" under "Stone Fruit" widget.

Instead, I got:
Nothing under Stone Fruit widget.

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

There isn't such a built-in feature within [wpv-conditional] shortcode, and it is not recommended to pass quotes or single quote in the shortcode attribute values.

In your case, I suggest you try to create a custom shortcode to check the attribute value is not empty, then output simple value, for example:
- attribute "boxxy-description" value is not empty, return value 1
- attribute "boxxy-description" value is empty, return value 0

Then follow our document to use above custom shortcode insider wpv-conditional shortcode:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/shortcodes-within-shortcodes/#third-party-shortcode-arguments

Section "Third-party shortcode arguments"

[webadmins]

Hi thank you for responding, I didn't create a shortcode but a hook on save_post that converts quotes to the appropriate html characters. When the items are saved to database they are escaped with a back slash. This is great for database storage; however, it just doesn't work for properly dealing with the data on the client side. The hook works and now I can add both quotes and apostrophes. 🙂

[webadmins]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!