Wordpress, text before variable if not empty

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<?php echo $yearbuilt = get_post_meta ($post->ID, 'yearbuilt', true); if ( !empty($yearbuilt) ) ?>

I want the word "Built" before the custom field yearbuilt and only if yearbuilt is NOT empty. I've worked on this for hours and nothing I tried worked. Help!

Igor Yavych · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-17 18:43:19Z

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It's pretty simple

echo ((get_post_meta ($post->ID, 'yearbuilt', true) != '') ? 'Built ' . get_post_meta ($post->ID, 'yearbuilt', true) : '');

get_post_meta will return something, even if there is no post meta set, in your case an empty string (since 3rd argument is set to true), so $yearbuilt won't return true to an empty check. Also, calling get_post_meta twice is not really inefficient, since it gets value from cache anyway.

answered Sep 17, 2017 at 18:43

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user2568633 Over a year ago

Thank you!!!! That worked and I see what I was doing wrong. Thanks for the explanation.

Igor Yavych Over a year ago

@user2568633 You're welcome. Don't forget to accept an answer :)

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