I don’t want to display post with empty body / post_content on my home page. So I added below code to my function.php. It detects post with empty body but it still display them. I expected that if I return ” the post won’t be displayed.
- How can I remove post from displaying?
- How does the filter the_posts work?
The code:
function remove_post_with_empty_body ( $posts ) {
if (($posts->post_content) == '') {
echo 'empty'; //also tried return false; and return null;
return '';
}
else {
echo 'not empty';
return $posts;
}
}
add_action('the_post', 'remove_post_with_empty_body');
First thing, in your code you are using
the_posthook but in your question you are asking aboutthe_postshook, which are two different things.the_postsgets called just after the posts have been selected from the database and it passes an array of $posts to your function, so you should use that.as for
the_posthook, it gets fired (usually) inside the loop it self which is to late to change any thing (like redirect) and its not a filter hook, but an action hook which means that if you return nothing, its just exiting your function and not effecting the outcome.