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Hi,

I want to check whether any entries exist with the status ‘Featured’ and, if they exist, display them. But, if there aren’t any, I’d like to revert to displaying entries with the bog standard status ‘Open’.

I know I could go through all the entries and test the {status} variable, but it seems a bit of a waste to have to go through every entry.

Is there a more efficient way to do this? Perhaps something like (although I’m sure you can’t run the weblog:entries tage within itself):

...og:entries limit=“5” status=“featured”}
{if no_results}
...og:entries limit=“5” status=“open”}
{/if}

Thanks, in advance. I’m using 1.6.9.

You could use the query module and do a count of the number of entries that have a status of featured. If the count is zero, then display the exp:weblog:entries tag with status of open or status of featured.

NOTE: This is meant to just get you started on thinking through the code to do this.