I have a client who needs two descriptions for their collections, one that is long and in HTML (pics, h2, h3s, etc), another that is just a blurb (used on the /collections page only). I couldn't find a way to add a custom field anywhere and figured an easy way to accomodate this with the existing fields is to utilize the meta desciption since that what this blurb is essentially. I couldn't find a way to get this working in my collection_listing. Right now, I'm trying this inside collection-listing.liquid (inside a collection loop):
<h1 class="title"><a class="highlight align" href="{{ collection.url }}">{{ collection.title }}</a></h1>
<a class="highlight align" href="{{ collection.url }}">
{% if collection.image %}
{{ collection.image.src | collection_img_url: 'large' | img_tag: collection.image.alt }}
{% else %}
{{ collection.products.first.featured_image | product_img_url: 'large' | img_tag: collection.image.alt }}
{% endif %}
</a>
{% if page_description != '' %}
<p>{{ page_description }}</p>
{% endif %}
No matter what is entered for the collection meta description I don't see anything (I see an empty paragraph). Any suggestions? TIA.
Is this approach off the wall? I figured this would be easier to maintain than parsing out a custom div from the main description.