Latest POSTS description not showing

[CHugo]

Hello,

I have a problem with the description in mi Latest posts, there are incorects , they are not showing the actual descriptions:

https://ai.reportlinker.com/resources

My code is this one:

<ul>
{% set rec_posts = blog_recent_posts("default", 3) %}
{% for rec_post in rec_posts %}
<li>
<div class="lp-block">
{% if rec_post.featured_image %}

<a class="resource__post-image"
alt="{{ rec_post.featured_image_alt_text }}"
style="background-image: url('{{ rec_post.featured_image }}');"
href="{{ rec_post.absolute_url }}">
</a>

{% endif %}
{% set featured_tag = rec_post.topic_list | first %}
{% if featured_tag %}
<div class="content content-description">
<div>
<span class="keyword">{{ featured_tag }}</span>
{% endif %}
<h3><a href="{{ rec_post.absolute_url }}">{{ rec_post.name }}</a></h3>
<p class="description">{{ content.meta_description | default(content.post_summary, true) | truncatehtml(150, '...', false) }}</p>
</div>
<div>
<a class="ghost-cta" href="{{ rec_post.absolute_url }}">
Read more
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

[albertsg · Accepted solution]

Hello @CHugo, the description comes from:

<p class="description">{{ content.meta_description | default(content.post_summary, true) | truncatehtml(150, '...', false) }}</p>

And based on your code, it should print the content.post_summary variable unless there is a Meta Description in content.meta_description.

Based on my experience dealing with content issues, did you by any chance clone the articles and changed everything except the meta descriptions? If that's the case, your code might be correct but the issue lays on all posts having the same meta description. Since in your screenshot all posts have the same text, it looks like this might be the problem 🙂

If what I mentioned above is correct and you still want to keep the meta descriptions the same across blog posts, then change the code to:

<p class="description">{{ content.post_summary | default(content.meta_description, true) | truncatehtml(150, '...', false) }}</p>

In the code above, you will always show the post_summary as default variable and in case this doesn't exists, the meta description will be shown.

If none of that helps, I recommend you checking the |default filter documentation to know more about it since you might not need it or you might not need the true parameter: https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/cms/hubl/filters#default