Looper Provider / Consumer Placeholder

[Rule72]

Is there a best-practice way to insert a placeholder if the provider source count = null ?

Case example: A client portal (highly derivative of Vultr’s dashboard for now lol, don’t judge) powered by loopers. Posts power the client’s items, but in some or many cases the client will not have any posts to fill certain areas. I’d like to show a placeholder.

[Rule72]

Side question specific to this project (so I don’t have to open another ticket)… there isn’t any way to display a looper unique to whoever’s logged in, is there…? I thought I could achieve that dynamically via the “authors” setting.

If no alternative exists, I can always just use extra categories but it’s… not as secure from client-to-client as I’d like lol.

[ruenel]

Hello @Rule72,

Thanks for writing in!

1.) You can use the Looper Provider Output is Empty condition so that you can display the placeholder.

2.) To display a looper unique to whoever’s logged in, you will have to use the Looper Provider Query String and then dynamically use the {{dc:user:id}} dynamic content in your query string. Perhaps this video may give you an insight:

Easily setup custom sorting capabilities in WordPress with zero plugins.

Best Regards.

[Rule72]

Oh thank awesomeness!

1. Nicely done!

2. I’ve implemented a category-based method of selecting which account sees what pages, but it means that I manually have to copy/adjust a template for each new portal client (not ideal nor sustainable). The fact that the looper functions are this flexible is… just amazing.

Functionally…

cat=“category_name”&author={{dc:user:id}}

…more or less solves what I need, pending fiddly bits.

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Because of loopers, I’ve been able to cut out (for the most part, case-specific) plugins like:

• Slider Revolution
• Essential Grid
• UberMenu

…and my sites have just been increasingly a breeze to make as a result. Thanks!

[tristup]

Hi @Rule72,

Glad that it helps. Please let us know if you need any further help.

Thanks

[Rule72]

I’m still fiddling to see if it works, will report back!

[Rule72]

Pardon my dust… I tried to find the documentation via Google but there is a massive amount of stuff to wade through. How might one include an “and” argument for multiple categories in the query string, requiring both to be present? (Or is the reason I can’t find this that it isn’t a thing, because I need an array?)

category_name=cat-1,cat-2&author={{dc:user:id}}

[tristup]

Hi @Rule72,

You need to use the Query String in the following way, described in the given threads.

MEC Looper Order

Hello Jen, Your WP Query is not entirely correct. If you follow the detailed explanation of @Kory on this thread (Looper Query String: Featured Products), you should be having something like this: $meta_query[] = array( 'key' => 'mec_start_date', 'value' => date('Ymd'), 'compare' => '>=', ); $tax_query[] = array( 'taxonomy' => 'mec_category', 'terms' => 'take-action', ); $query = array( 'post_type' => 'mec-events', 'tax_query' => $tax_query, 'meta_ke…

Looper Query String: Featured Products

@bobbybosler, no problem…happy to help. For a little more context on how I got that result, you might find this helpful if you need to create additional complex queries in the future… First, you’ll need a PHP environment to work in. If you’re developing locally, you can just throw any of this in your child theme’s functions.php file to ultimately get some output to work with. Start by writing out a query using the standard WP_Query syntax like so: $tax_query[] = array( 'taxo…

It might look like the following.

category__in%5B0%5D=5&category__in%5B1%5D=1&author={{dc:user:id}}

Thanks

[Rule72]

That solved it! Thanks!

[marc_a]

Hi @Rule72,

You’re welcome! If you have any other concerns or clarifications regarding our theme features, feel free to open up a new thread.

Thank you.