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Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 65

Query author meta for all posts on archive page

When a user registers on my Wordress site, a custom post (Athlete) is automatically created, with the user being assigned as the author. The custom post essentially acts as a profile page.

On their profile page, users fill out a bunch or info, and a total_score is calculated and saved as user meta. If they do not complete all of the forms - they won't have a total_score as it is calculated on submission.

I have created a custom archive page for the posts (athletes), and used Settings > Reading > Posts Page to set it as the default posts archive.

On the post preview template (created and looped using Ele Custom Skins and Elementor) I have added an element called #total_score_circle- seen in the screenshot below.

I would like to hide #total_score_circle on the post preview layout if there is no total_score in the author meta for that post.

The below code currently hides the #total_score_circle across all post previews, and not just the ones where total_score doesn't exist in the author meta. So my query is clearly off.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

function total_score_display(){
        
    if (is_home()){
        
        global $post;
        $author_id=$post->post_author;
        
        $total_score = get_the_author_meta('total_score', $author_id);
        
        if(empty($total_score)) : ?>
            <style type="text/css">
                        #total_score_circle   {
                            display: none !important;
                        }
                    </style>
            <?php endif; 
        }
    }
        add_action( 'wp_head', 'total_score_display', 10, 1 );

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The frontend has been created with Elementor Pro, and I have used Elementor Custom Skin to create the loop that displays the search results.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 402

Answers (1)

Andrew
Andrew

Reputation: 65

Thanks to Ruvee's guidance, I managed to solve my problem through implementing a shortcode on the actual custom skin page using Elementor and the below PHP.

Essentially I created a shortcode that displayed the value with a custom CSS class .total_score_circle and then used another shortcode to run the if/else statement.

If total_score exists, return do_shortcode(), if not return a separate, irrelevant CSS class.

I'm sure it's not the elegant way to do it, but worked a treat with Elementor.

    // Create shortcode to show total_score
    
    add_shortcode('total_score_sc', 'total_score_sc');
    function total_score_sc ($atts) {

    $total_score = get_the_author_meta( 'total_score');
    
    $total_score_class =  '<div class="total_score_circle" >';
    $total_score_class .= $total_score;
    $total_score_class .= '</div>'; 
    return $total_score_class;
    }
    
    // Create shortcode to replace above shortcode if total_score not present
    
    add_shortcode('final_total_score_sc', 'final_total_score_sc');

    function final_total_score_sc() { 
    global $post;
    
    $author_id = get_post_meta( get_queried_object_id(), 'author_id' );
    $total_score = get_the_author_meta( 'total_score', $author_id );

    $sR =  '<div class="total_score_circle_empty" >';
    $sR .= '</div>'; 

    if(empty($total_score))
        return $sR;
    else
        return do_shortcode( '[total_score_sc]' );
    }

Upvotes: 0

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