I’m curious about a parse order issue I’m running into with Low Variables and Stash.
I have a client site that’s using Switchee, Stash, Low Variables and Playa. I am able to retrieve the custom fields just fine inside of the tag, but for whatever reason, I am unable to retrieve the url_title. It just simply doesn’t render any value.
Here’s the page template:
{exp:switchee variable="{segment_2}" parse="inward"}
{case value=""}
{embed="layouts/.default"}
{exp:stash:set name='pagetitle'}Gay Blog — The New GayTravel.com!{/exp:stash:set}
{exp:stash:set name='bodyclass'}blog index{/exp:stash:set}
{exp:stash:set name='maincontent' parse_tags="yes" parse_depth="3" parse_conditionals="yes"}
<div class="main-banner">
<figure>
<figcaption>
<h1 class="header"><a href="#">Featured Story: <br />Gay Travel Guru’s Visit to Phuket</a></h1>
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<a class="read-more" href="#">Read More »</a>
</figcaption>
<img src="http://flickholdr.iwerk.org/1280/800/gay, thailand, male" alt="Placeholder image from flickholdr.com" />
</figure>
{lv_ad_top_banner_square}
</div>
<div id="content">
<main role="main">
<section class="content-block">
<h1>Gay Blog Featured Articles</h1>
<div class="slider-box clearfix">
{exp:low_variables:parse var="lv_blog_featured_articles" limit="3" var_prefix="blog"}
<article class="blog-block element-block">
<figure>
<figcaption><a href="{blog:url_title_path='blog'}">{entry_date format="%M %d, %Y"}</a></figcaption>
{exp:ce_img:single src="{blog:blog_main_image}" width="500" allow_scale_larger="yes" height="300" attributes='alt="{blog:title}"' crop="yes" }
</figure>
<h2><a href="{blog:url_title_path='blog'}">{title}</a></h2>
{blog:blog_summary}
</article>
{/exp:low_variables:parse}
</div>
</section>
<section class="content-block">
<h1>Latest Video Blog</h1>
<article class="video-blog-block element-block">
<div class="video-container">
<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dFVxGRekRSg" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe>
</div>
<h2><a href="#">Video Blog Page Title</a></h2>
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</article>
</section>
<section class="content-block">
<h1>Blog Archives</h1>
<div class="archive-wrapper">
{exp:channel:entries
channel="blogs"
disable="categories|category_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"
dynamic="off"
limit="12"
}
<article class="blog-archive element-block">
<figure>
<figcaption><a href="{url_title_path='blog'}">{entry_date format="%M %d"}</a></figcaption>
{exp:ce_img:single src="{blog_main_image}" width="500" allow_scale_larger="yes" height="300" attributes='alt="{title}"' crop="yes"}
</figure>
<h2><a href="{url_title_path='blog'}">{title}</a></h2>
</article>
{switch="||<div class='clear-left'></div>"}
{/exp:channel:entries}
</div>
<a class="button" href="#">View the Rest of the Archive »</a>
</section>
</main>
<div class="sidebar">
{lv_sidebar_featured_members}
{lv_sidebar_get_the_updates}
{lv_ad_sidebar_tower}
{lv_sidebar_tweets}
</div>
</div>
{/exp:stash:set}
{/case}
{/exp:switchee}
My Low Variable Extension settings are set to parse before snippets, and my Low Variable entry has early parsing turned on.
Also, you can see that I’ve already got parse_depth set to a level of 3, and it’s still not rendering anything. I got the solution/suggestion from this article
As I mentioned before, everything seems to work, except for the url_title, which just has a blank value.
Any thoughts on why this is happening would be greatly appreciated!
