1 The `meta` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/meta desc=meta]] plugin.
3 This directive allows inserting arbitrary metadata into the source of a page.
4 Enter the metadata as follows:
6 \[[!meta field="value"]]
7 \[[!meta field="value" param="value" param="value"]]
9 The first form sets a given field to a given value, while the second form
10 also specifies some additional sub-parameters. You can have only one field
11 per `meta` directive, use more directives if you want to specify more fields.
13 The field values are treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include
14 a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on.
20 Overrides the title of the page, which is generally the same as the
23 Note that if the title is overridden, a "title_overridden" variable will
24 be set to a true value in the template; this can be used to format things
25 differently in this case.
27 An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
28 [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(title)`:
30 \[[!meta title="The Beatles" sortas="Beatles, The"]]
32 \[[!meta title="David Bowie" sortas="Bowie, David"]]
36 Specifies a license for the page, for example, "GPL". Can contain
37 WikiLinks and arbitrary markup.
41 Specifies the copyright of the page, for example, "Copyright 2007 by
42 Joey Hess". Can contain WikiLinks and arbitrary markup.
46 Specifies the author of a page.
48 An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
49 [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(author)`:
51 \[[!meta author="Joey Hess" sortas="Hess, Joey"]]
55 Specifies an url for the author of a page.
59 Specifies a short description for the page. This will be put in
60 the html header, and can also be displayed by eg, the [[map]] directive.
64 Specifies keywords summarizing the contents of the page. This
65 information will be put in the html header. Only letters,
66 numbers, spaces and commas are allowed in this string; other
67 characters are stripped. Note that the majority of search
68 engines, including Google, do not use information from the
73 Specifies a permanent link to the page, if different than the page
78 Specifies the creation date of the page. This creates a
79 `<meta name="date" content="...">` header in the HTML output, but also
80 modifies the internal `ctime` in the [[internal index|tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki/]].
81 The date can be entered in nearly any format, since it's parsed by
82 [[!cpan TimeDate]] but invalid dates yield an error in 3.20180321
87 Adds a stylesheet to a page. The stylesheet is treated as a wiki link to
88 a `.css` file in the wiki, so it cannot be used to add links to external
91 \[[!meta stylesheet=somestyle rel="alternate stylesheet"
94 However, this will be scrubbed away if the
95 [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,
96 since it can be used to insert unsafe content.
100 Adds a script to a page. The script is treated as a wiki link to
101 a `.js` file in the wiki, so it cannot be used to add links to external
102 scripts. The optional `defer` and `async` keywords can be used to set
103 the corresponding HTML4 and HTML5 script options. Example:
105 \[[!meta script=somescript defer async]]
107 The tag is subject to scrubbing as with the stylesheet and link fields.
111 Adds html <link> tags to perform OpenID delegation to an external
112 OpenID server. This lets you use an ikiwiki page as your OpenID.
114 By default this will delegate for both `openid` and `openid2`. To only
115 delegate for one, add a parameter such as `delegate=openid`.
117 An optional `xrds-location`
118 parameter lets you specify the location of any [eXtensible Resource
119 DescriptorS](http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/05/using_xrds.shtml).
123 \[[!meta openid="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/"
124 server="http://www.myopenid.com/server"
125 xrds-location="http://www.myopenid.com/xrds?username=joeyh.myopenid.com"]]
129 Specifies a link to another page. This can be used as a way to make the
130 wiki treat one page as linking to another without displaying a user-visible
131 [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]]:
133 \[[!meta link=otherpage]]
135 It can also be used to insert a html <link> tag. For example:
137 \[[!meta link="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/" rel="openid.delegate"]]
139 However, this latter syntax won't be allowed if the
140 [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
141 insert unsafe content.
145 Specifies a link to a file to be rendered as an "enclosure" in
146 RSS/Atom feeds (and a plain old link in HTML). Useful for
147 [[!iki podcast desc=podcasting]].
151 Causes the page to redirect to another page in the wiki.
153 \[[!meta redir=otherpage]]
155 The default is to redirect without delay.
156 Optionally, a delay (in seconds) can be specified: "delay=10"
158 It can also be used to redirect to an external url. For example:
160 \[[!meta redir="http://example.com/"]]
162 However, this latter syntax won't be allowed if the
163 [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
164 insert unsafe content.
166 For both cases, an anchor to jump to inside the destination page may also be
167 specified using the common `#ANCHOR` syntax.
171 Causes the robots meta tag to be written:
173 \[[!meta robots="index, nofollow"]]
175 Valid values for the attribute are: "index", "noindex", "follow", and
176 "nofollow". Multiple comma-separated values are allowed, but obviously only
177 some combinations make sense. If there is no robots meta tag, "index,
178 follow" is used as the default.
180 The value is escaped, but its contents are not otherwise checked.
184 Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This guid should be a URI,
185 and it will be used to identify the page's entry in RSS
186 and Atom feeds. If not given, the default is to use the page's URL as its
189 This is mostly useful when a page has moved, to keep the guids for
190 pages unchanged and avoid flooding aggregators
191 (see [[!iki tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]]).
195 Specifies a fake modification time for a page, to be output into RSS and
196 Atom feeds. This is useful to avoid flooding aggregators that sort by
197 modification time, like Planet: for instance, when editing an old blog post
198 to add tags, you could set `updated` to be one second later than the original
199 value. The date/time can be given in any format that
200 [[!cpan TimeDate]] can understand, just like the `date` field and maps to the
201 `<meta name="updated" content="...">` HTML header and internal `mtime` field.
205 Adds a Friend of a Friend ([FOAF](http://wiki.foaf-project.org/w/Autodiscovery))
210 \[[!meta foaf=foaf.rdf]]
214 Adds a HTML `<meta>` header with this `name` attribute. Its other attributes are
215 taken from the other parameters, so for example
216 `\[[!meta name="foo" content="bar" x-non-standard-attribute="baz"]]`
217 becomes `<meta name="foo" content="bar" x-non-standard-attribute="baz">`. This
218 won't be allowed if the [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,
219 since it can be used to insert unsafe content.
223 If the field is not one of the above predefined fields, the metadata will be
224 written to the generated html page as a <meta> header. For example,
225 `\[[!meta foo="bar"]]` becomes `<meta name="foo" content="bar">`. As
226 with `name`, this won't be allowed if the [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber
227 desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled.
229 This syntax cannot be used for meta headers with unusual names, in
230 particular names containing `:` such as `flattr:id` and `twitter:card`.
231 Please use `\[[!meta name="..." content="..."]]` for those headers.
233 [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]