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jonedwards

Hi there

I have a couple of different custom post types in my site - for job vacancies and tenders respectively. I need to display just the titles of of each post in a particular post type in the the sidebar.

I have done so by using the following:

<section>
		<?php $sidebar_vacancies_loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'vacancies', 'posts_per_page' => 3 ) ); ?>
		<header>
			<h3><span>Vacancies</span></h3>
			<p><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/vacancies/">View all <span>job openings</span></a></p>
		</header>	
		<ul>
			<?php while ( $sidebar_vacancies_loop->have_posts() ) : $sidebar_vacancies_loop->the_post(); ?>
			<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>			
			<?php endwhile; ?>
		</ul>
	</section>

This works well, but I need to display alternate content if there are no vacancies.

Either by having an alternate li that simply says, 'No vacancies'
Or just not displaying the entire section if there are none.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

ddliu

How about:


	 	 	 <?php if($sidebar_vacancies_loop->have_posts()):?>
                        <?php while ( $sidebar_vacancies_loop->have_posts() ) : $sidebar_vacancies_loop->the_post(); ?>
                        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>                   
                        <?php endwhile; ?>
	 	 	 <?php else:?>
	 	 	 <li>No vacancies</li>
	 	 	 <?php endif;?>

jonedwards

I got this working eventually. Pretty similar to the above, so thanks ddliu.

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