Reply To: Shortcode: Using the Hide if empty in a shortcode

• Steven Maas

• October 29, 2021 at 5:34 pm

Rather than remembering to use another shortcode just add options to acf standard shortcode. If the option hide_empty doesn’t exist then nothing. That’s simple.

[acf field="field_name" post_id="options" hide_empty="1"]

This seems simple and I would venture to say many of your users already want this.

My code had a typo because I was not used to the new shortcode

[acf_if_value=”gv_address_2″ post_id=”options”]

Should have been

[acf_if_value field="gv_address_2" post_id="options"]

I probably would not have screwed this up if it were…

[acf field="field_name" post_id="options" hide_empty="1"]

Regrading wrapper html and class, if the options in the shortcode don’t exist, then nothing.

You already add separate wrapper class to style the backend admin site. When I first used ACF I thought that was what It was going to do, output to the page. Instead it was admin backend styling.

John, I heard your a wizard, could you provide hide_empty=”1″ code?

– Please 🙂