From 637485071ac175ea10f36361f18d8912f54e4ef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anthony Talarico <talarico@gaslightmedia.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 10:28:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] checking for published epicenter posts before trying to
 output them in the frontpage sidebar

---
 sidebar.php | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sidebar.php b/sidebar.php
index 9dfda4a..880d2c4 100644
--- a/sidebar.php
+++ b/sidebar.php
@@ -33,14 +33,16 @@
                                                 'suppress_filters' => true,
 
                                             ); 
-                                            $epicenter_blog = get_posts( $args )[0]; 
+              
+                                            $epicenter_blog = get_posts( $args )[0];
                                             $date = strtotime($epicenter_blog->post_date);
                                             ?>
-                                            <h3><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($epicenter_blog->ID); ?>"><?php echo $epicenter_blog->post_title; ?></a></h3>
-                                            <div id="epicenter-post-date"><?php echo date("F j, Y",$date); ?></div>
-                                            <p><?php echo content_excerpt($epicenter_blog->ID, 35);?>...</p>
+                                            <?php if($epicenter_blog) : ?>
+                                                <h3><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($epicenter_blog->ID); ?>"><?php echo $epicenter_blog->post_title; ?></a></h3>
+                                                <div id="epicenter-post-date"><?php echo date("F j, Y",$date); ?></div>
+                                                <p><?php echo content_excerpt($epicenter_blog->ID, 35);?>...</p>
+                                            <?php endif;?>
                                         </div>
                                     </div>
                                 </div>
-                                
-                            </div>
+                             </div>
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