diff --git a/_plugins/external-posts.rb b/_plugins/external-posts.rb
index 41a6c4360657..1f66a8c853f8 100644
--- a/_plugins/external-posts.rb
+++ b/_plugins/external-posts.rb
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ def create_document(site, source_name, url, content)
       doc.data['description'] = content[:summary]
       doc.data['date'] = content[:published]
       doc.data['redirect'] = url
+      doc.content = content[:content]
       site.collections['posts'].docs << doc
     end
 
@@ -90,8 +91,12 @@ def fetch_content_from_url(url)
       parsed_html = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
 
       title = parsed_html.at('head title')&.text.strip || ''
-      description = parsed_html.at('head meta[name="description"]')&.attr('content') || ''
-      body_content = parsed_html.at('body')&.inner_html || ''
+      description = parsed_html.at('head meta[name="description"]')&.attr('content')
+      description ||= parsed_html.at('head meta[name="og:description"]')&.attr('content')
+      description ||= parsed_html.at('head meta[property="og:description"]')&.attr('content')
+
+      body_content = parsed_html.search('p').map { |e| e.text }
+      body_content = body_content.join() || ''
 
       {
         title: title,