{"id":62601,"date":"2013-08-23T08:56:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/displaying-category-posts-using-if-statement\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:27:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:27:30","slug":"displaying-category-posts-using-if-statement","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/displaying-category-posts-using-if-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Displaying Category Posts using IF statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey!<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ve been trying to get this to work but I can&#8217;t seem to find the right function in your documentation.<br \/>\nI need to run a function that checks to see if there are posts in a category and if there are, it then displays just the dates of the event with a description (as in, we can have description on the left, and then we just have a list of the dates. If there aren&#8217;t, then it does not display the dates OR the description at all (as if it never even existed). I could not find the code that would check to see if the category has posts in the first place so I got a little lost.<br \/>\nDoes anyone have a solution for this? Or any suggested code?<br \/>\nMany thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-62601","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Displaying Category Posts using IF statement -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/displaying-category-posts-using-if-statement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Displaying Category Posts using IF statement -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hey! So I&#8217;ve been trying to get this to work but I can&#8217;t seem to find the right function in your documentation. 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