Description of one Types appear at the top instead.

This thread is resolved. Here is a description of the problem and solution.

Problem:
The user was having a duplicated title on the top of the page.

Solution:
It turns out that the user was generating a meta tag from a Toolset field on the theme's files. The custom field was containing HTML tag. It is not possible to have HTML tags inside attributes of other HTML tags.

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Last updated by Fran Doblas 4 years, 3 months ago.

Assisted by: Jamal.

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September 30, 2021 at 7:45 am #2183501

Fran Doblas

We have a problem with a "Description" field of a Type we have made. When we put an <a> tag in this description, content appears at the top in the page. When in "Description" field doesn't have any <a> tag, all it's OK.

Can you see the problem in the next link.
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I expected to see:
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I add an image and links so you can see it.

September 30, 2021 at 1:14 pm #2183709

Nigel

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Would it be possible to take a look at how you have set this up?

You have a custom field, and have created a description for this field, and you are outputting this description (where and how?).

When the description contains a link, the link (or the description?) appear in an unexpected location.

Does that sound right?

Let me mark your next reply as private so that we can get log-in credentials from you—you may want to create a temporary admin user for us to use that you can later delete. And be sure to have a current backup of your site.

October 3, 2021 at 10:20 am #2186027

Jamal

Indeed, Nigel speaks in Spanish, but I don't know it very well. I am sorry, I can't answer you in Spanish.

I logged in to your website and analyzed the issue a little bit, but I could not find the real cause behind it.

The issue is produced by the theme. In fact, if you switch to a default theme such as 2021, the issue is not reproduced anymore.

I tried an elimination process on your theme to, hopefully, find the cause of the issue, but I did not.

I am afraid, you are using a custom-made theme, which is considered custom code, and thus out of the scope of the support forum.

Fortunately, while writing this line I find out that the issue comes from line 259 in the theme's functions.php file. As soon as I commented it, it resolved the issue:

echo '<meta property="og:description" content="' . $post->post_content . '"/>';

If the post content has any tags(for example a link) it will break. Because, HTML tags cannot be added inside an HTML attribute.

Using the stip_tags function on it resolves the issue:

echo '<meta property="og:description" content="' . strip_tags( $post->post_content ) . '"/>';

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I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

October 5, 2021 at 2:03 pm #2187879

Fran Doblas

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!