Profile: Suzanne Wenger

Problem: I have a View that displays different results based on a shortcode attribute. I would like to use the output of this View in a conditional. If the results are not empty, I would like to show a text header.

Solution: Avoid using a View's results in a conditional. You'll run into lots of problems with extra spaces, markup, and nested attribute quotation marks, causing the conditional to fail. Instead, use the View's wpv-items-found block to your advantage and display the text here. You can pass arbitrary text into a custom shortcode attribute, and display it in the View using the wpv-attribute shortcode.

View shortcodes:

Loop output:

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#vf-309292
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/passing-arguments-to-views/