Happy to help! Glad you got it sorted. Now let’s work on optimizing this site! It needs help.
Mike, the issue wasn’t the conditional or the URL creation in the end. It was that he had limit=“10” in the channel tag and the entries he wanted to appear didn’t appear because of the conditional and their specific dates. He’s get 10 entries and none of them met the condition of the field match so nothing would show.
His options were search=”” or categories. With 20K+ entries, search=”” isn’t an option so categories were the best fit to get the entries he wanted returned.