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

• John Huebner

• November 1, 2021 at 9:21 am

we cannot modify the shortcode in ACF. The only option we have is to build our own shortcodes. I am not the developer of ACF.

Making changes to the shortcode I posted above is really quite simple. You just need to add the attributes you want and then use those attributes in the function. As an example, this one adds “html_before” and “html_after” which are similar attributes used in several WP functions.

function acf_shortcode_if_value( $atts ) {
  
  // extract attributs
  extract( shortcode_atts( array(
    'field'      => '',
    'post_id'    => false,
    'format_value'  => true,
    'html_before' => '',
    'html_after' => ''
  ), $atts ) );
  
  
  // get value and return it
  $value = get_field( $field, $post_id, $format_value );
  
  if (empty($value)) {
    return '';
  }
  
  // array
  if( is_array($value) ) {
    
    $value = @implode( ', ', $value );
    
  }
  
  $value = $atts['html_before'].''.$value.$atts['html_after'];
  
  // return
  return $value;
  
}

add_shortcode('acf_if_value', 'acf_shortcode_if_value');