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Hello everyone, I’m an EE newbie so I apologize if I’m missing something crucial or using the wrong terminology. Here’s my issue:

1.) I am using stash to create a stash variable called “test” if a specific channel field is set (lp_cta). I want to run a conditional in my sidebar layout after my entries channel is closed to say if that stash variable is set (test) then display it. If that variable is NOT set, I want it to display some other default message. I am able to get the stash variable to display outside of the conditional, but I cannot write the conditional so anything within it displays.

2.) Here is my code
This stores the stash variable

{if lp_cta}{exp:stash:set name="test"}{lp_cta}{/exp:stash:set}{/if}

This displays it without a conditional after the channel is closed. This is functional and does what is expected

{exp:stash:get name="test"}

I am not sure how to write the conditional. If you can make sense of what I’m trying to do with this maybe I can get some suggestions.

{if stash:test}{exp:stash:get name="test"}{/if}

3.) I am using EE v2.3.1

Thank you.

Maybe try

{if {exp:stash:not_empty name="test"}}
    {test}                               
{/if}

Some Modules and plugins require some weird conditional syntax especially with quotes and curly braces. I do not know exactly what causes that but I have a general rule of thumb when I am developing a site if I have a conditional that is not showing up for some reason to try adding quotes or curly braces around it to see if that fixes the problem.

Adding quotes to force the direct string comparison frequently solves my template-conditional issues:

{if "{exp:some_plugin}" == "some_value"} ... {/if}

Thanks gentlemen! I used Justin’s fix and it worked great. I’ll keep the quote solution in mind for the future.