I have a page (titled PPC) and a custom post type (titled Presentations) that I don’t want certain elements to appear on. I thought this code would work :
<?php if ((!is_page('PPC')) || (!is_singular('presentations'))) { ?> <section id="menu" class="menu"> <div class="grid grid--justify-center grid-md--justify-end grid--align-middle menu__inner"> <nav role="navigation" class="menu__nav"> <?php $nav_classes = 'header__menu header__menu--global'; include(locate_template('components/component-nav.php', false, false)); ?> </nav> </div> </section> <div class="header__item header__item--hamburger"> <button id="toggleHeaderHamburger" onclick="toggleHeaderView()" class="hamburger"> <span class="hamburger__bar"></span> </button> </div> <?php } ?>
Using each conditional by itself, without the ||, works fine. But when I combine them both and use the logical operator, nothing works. I’ve also tried taking the wrapping parentheses out as well, so it looks like this:
if (!is_page('PPC')) || (!is_singular('presentations')) {
But then I get an error. What am I doing wrong here?
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Answer
As you’ve written it, !is_page('PPC') || !is_singular('presentations')
would roughly translate it as “one of neither of these” which is a logical absurbity. Within the evaulation of that expression, if it’s “not a PPC” it no longer matters whether or not it is “a presentation”, and vice-versa.
What you want is “either of these” is_page('PPC') || is_singular('presentations')
prefixed with a “not” for:
! ( is_page('PPC') || is_singular('presentations') )
“Not either of these”.