Accessing primary_tag within a post context

Themes
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My theme has a main page that lists posts by tag group.

I want to use the primary_tag feature_image as a fallback when the post feature_image doesn’t exist.

So I’m operating within a post context as it constructs the image, title, excerpt etc.

I tried this:

{{#primary_tag}}
{{#if feature_image}}
     code to output the image
{{/if}}
{{/primary_tag}}

Am I trying to do the impossible? This Post Context Doc says the primary_tag is a path expression, which points to a whole tag object, rather than a helper function.

But it’s clear that if statement is never returning true and outputting the image.

2

In this snippet, you’re checking whether the tag’s feature image exists, not the post’s. Is that what’s intended? If so, then this code will work, displaying a featured image when there’s a primary tag and that tag has a feature image.

If you want to fall back to the tag’s image when the post doesn’t have a feature image, then the snippet should look like this:

{{#post}} 

{{#if feature_image}}
  {{!  code for when there's a feature image for the post }}
{{else}}
  {{#primary_tag}}
    {{#if feature_image}}
      code to output the image
    {{/if}}
  {{/primary_tag}}
{{/if}}

{{/post}}
3

You got what meant exactly right, and what you wrote out is what I did, but It failed to work.

If it should work, then maybe I had something odd going on and I need to take another crack at it. Thanks for your help. I’ll persevere.

4

In this type of scenario, the log helper can be a great tool for seeing what’s happening:

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