Portfolio Items – Masonry Element – Unassigned Categories Bug?

Hey mickya1,

Thank you for the inquiry.

I think I may have discovered a bug with regards to portfolio items in the masonry element. In my mind if there are no category matches, the element should display NO RESULTS, but instead it is showing ALL RESULTS.

The element should return an empty string if there are no entries or if the loop is empty. We tried to reproduce the issue on our local installation but we’re not able to do so. Could you provide an admin account so that we can check the issue on your installation?

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Thank you for the info.

I will have to retract my previous statement. It turned out that this is the default behavior of the Masonry element. It will return all posts or used all the available terms in the taxonomy when the selected terms or categories are empty or don’t contain any items. The reason we didn’t see the items previously is because of a jQuery error which is unrelated to this topic.

You should see this block of code in the enfold\config-templatebuilder\avia-shortcodes\av-helper-masonry.php file around line 967:

	//check if any of the terms passed are valid. if not all existing terms are used
				$valid_terms = array();
				foreach( $terms as $term )
				{
					if( in_array( $term, $avialable_terms ) )
					{
						$valid_terms[] = $term;
					}
				}

This checks if the selected terms or categories are not empty but if none of them passed or none of of the selected categories contain any post, all categories are used. You may need to remove the Masonry element from the page temporarily until the required posts or items actually exist.

Best regards,
Ismael