Wordpress: Check if the_content is empty / do something only when the_content is empty

Wordpress: Do if the_content is not empty

<?php if ( get_the_content() ) { ?>

    // do or output something

<?php } ?> // break php tag for HTML block

You could perfectly replace

$thecontent = get_the_content();
if(!empty($thecontent))

by

if ( !empty( get_the_content() ) )

And Thank you for the snippet :)

@apermo, please bear in mind this syntax is only valid since PHP 5.5. WordPress is pretty conservative with back-compat, so if you produce a plugin that may be installed on older version of PHP, please consider using an additional variable like @bhongy did.

the_content() also applies the the_content filter to the result of get_the_content(), so the method above might not actually work :/

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just to summarize:

  $the_content = apply_filters('the_content', get_the_content());
  if ( !empty($the_content) ) {
    echo $the_content;
  }

the_content() also applies the the_content filter to the result of get_the_content(), so the method above might not actually work :/

Is there a use-case where this should be a problem for an empty check? Just wondering if I still use the_content() for displaying the content and empty check using get_the_content(), shouldn't be an issue right.

No need to use empty(), this works fine:

if ( get_the_content() ) {
//  do whatever!
}

If your post is empty, get_the_content will return an empty string, and in an IF statement PHP will interpret an empty string as FALSE.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.boolean.php

That worked for me @drdogbot7 !
Thanks

Thanks, @drdogbot7! Updated the gist per your suggestion.

if ( get_the_content() ) {
//  do whatever!
}

thanks you for question