diff --git a/app/Controllers/BaseController.php b/app/Controllers/BaseController.php
index 2cb4d75..c01dbbd 100644
--- a/app/Controllers/BaseController.php
+++ b/app/Controllers/BaseController.php
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class BaseController extends Controller
     protected function getBlogItems() :array {
         $siteData =[];
 
-        if ( count( $this->session->get("siteData")) > 0 ){
+        if ( $this->session->get("siteData") !== null && count( $this->session->get("siteData")) > 0 ){
             return $this->session->get("siteData");
         }
         $out  = $this->APIcall('GET','http://10.10.10.35:8805/blogdata/coregrade',[]);