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I’ve set up an extra nav item we’ll call “articles” using bp_core_new_nav_item() adding a screen to the profile that shows a loop of the articles. Now I’v done this for a few extra nav items aswell all which show a loop. My issue is that I only want to display the “articles” nav item to a user if they have actually posted one. I’d of course run a check on the count of that loop like so…

$profile_user = get_current_user_id( );
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'articles',
'author' => $profile_user,
'posts_per_page' => -1
);
$articles_query = new WP_Query($args);
$articles_count = $articles_query->post_count;
if ($articles_count > 0) {

But then how do I use this to display the nav item conditionally?