Alloy 'Recent Posts' stack is causing rest of page to disappear!

Foundry Alloy
#1

I have designed a webpage. It includes the Alloy stack for displaying news articles (blogs). This is working brilliant - and I couldn’t be more pleased.

On the website’s front page, there is also the ‘Recent Posts’ stack. However, when I have tried to add any blog post over the last couple of days, any content below this stack disappears! When I delete the blog (in the editor), the content reappears on the webpage. I have tried posting different content in the blog (including a one-word blog) just in case I’d managed to cut and paste some hidden characters, but it causes the same problem.

What could be causing this, and how do I correct it?

Thank you.

#2

I’ve managed to work out what was causing the issue. In what became the 3rd blog post the following code text created the issue:

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/694134513" width="100%" height="100%"  frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p>Photography by Richard Higham, <a href="https://www.richardsphotography.co.uk">Richard's Photography®</a>. Used by permission.<br>Music by <a href="/users/stock_studio-25553362/?tab=audio&utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=audio&utm_content=20674">Stock_Studio</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/music/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=20674">Pixabay</a>. Used by permission.</p>
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If I moved this to the very top of that blog post all works well, but it was part way through :man_shrugging:t2: Is there a better way to embed a Vimeo video in a blog post?

#3

:thread: Have a look at this thread: Blog posts not showing up

The problem is that your embed resides within the space of your auto truncated blog post summary. Check out Alloy’s custom summaries feature.

#4

Thanks, Adam. It had worked fine when it was the top and then the second blog item, but not when it became the 3rd one.

I’ll check out the custom summaries feature. :slight_smile:

#5

Likely because the full embed code made it into the summary or something below it compensated for the malformed code. Likely what we refer to as luck. :wink: That said — code in the summary when using auto truncation is bad. Don’t do it.