Ghost foreach missing post context

Question

I'm trying to access the post published_at date inside a loop that's iterating over the authors of a post but it's not working

This is an example: the date outside of the foreach block is correct but inside the block it will default to the current date

{{date published_at format="D MMMM YYYY"}}
{{#foreach authors}}
  <time class="author--date">{{date published_at format="D MMMM YYYY"}}</time>   
{{/foreach}}

Answer 1

Ghost uses Handlebars template syntax, and in your case foreach creates a new scope. So inside it you need to access parent scope to get published_at variable.

By prepending ../ to the property name, you can reference the parent scope. Check docs for more info.

So in your case it should be:

{{date published_at format="D MMMM YYYY"}}
{{#foreach authors}}
  <time class="author--date">{{date ../published_at format="D MMMM YYYY"}}</time>   
{{/foreach}}