blog_recent_tag_posts perfect match alternative

[rriveros]

Hi all,

I've been digging around the community for few weeks for an answer, but seems no one is facing the same problem as me.

I'm currently using the blog_recent_tag_posts to filter posts based in 3 categories of tags. Unfortunately the blog_recent_tag_posts functionality search for posts who have at least 1 matching, but I need to run a perfect match. I saw few workarounds like filtering in hubl the results, but I reach that phase where I got more blog posts available than the total result search limit (100) so the results returned are innaccurate.

Is there any option available for blog_recent_tag_posts with perfect match option?

[jonchim]

Hey @rriveros,

Let me know if you still need some assistance here. I believe the only way to do this is with if statements.

Are you trying to just filter the posts within those 3 categories only? So if a post had 2 of the 3 categories that post should show up in the results but currently it shows even if it had 1 of the 3?

[rriveros]

Hi Jon,

thanks. Yes, that's exactly my problem, posts which have less matching score(1 tag) are showing up first over posts with better score (2 or 3 posts). I found another post similar to mine were people use if statements to filter the results already loaded. The biggest challenge is that the database of blog posts our site manage is quite large(700+ posts), so for some categories a lot of posts are left out of the search (limited to 100 by hubspot). In many cases the results are looking very innacurate and I don't know if there is other mechanism. Even paginating the results in pages of 100s is fine for us.

[dennisedson]

@stefen , any thoughts on how to work around this?

[stefen · Accepted solution]

@dennisedson @rriveros as an alternate approach you could use the CMS Site Search API to return blog posts with a specific tag by using the filter parameters `&type=BLOG_POST` and `&property=tag` then you would use the `&term=` with the value of the tag name.

This should give you better results I would think but you are still limited to only 100 per page. But is super easy to paginate with the offset parameter.