-The `meta` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/meta]] plugin.
+The `meta` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/meta desc=meta]] plugin.
This directive allows inserting arbitrary metadata into the source of a page.
Enter the metadata as follows:
be set to a true value in the template; this can be used to format things
differently in this case.
+ An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
+ [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(title)`:
+
+ \[[!meta title="The Beatles" sortas="Beatles, The"]]
+
+ \[[!meta title="David Bowie" sortas="Bowie, David"]]
+
* license
Specifies a license for the page, for example, "GPL". Can contain
Specifies the author of a page.
+ An optional `sortas` parameter will be used preferentially when
+ [[ikiwiki/pagespec/sorting]] by `meta(author)`:
+
+ \[[!meta author="Joey Hess" sortas="Hess, Joey"]]
+
* authorurl
Specifies an url for the author of a page.
* description
- Specifies a "description" of the page. You could use this to provide
- a summary, for example, to be picked up by the [[map]] directive.
+ Specifies a short description for the page. This will be put in
+ the html header, and can also be displayed by eg, the [[map]] directive.
* permalink
* openid
Adds html <link> tags to perform OpenID delegation to an external
- OpenID server (for `openid` and `openid2`). An optional `xrds-location`
+ OpenID server. This lets you use an ikiwiki page as your OpenID.
+
+ By default this will delegate for both `openid` and `openid2`. To only
+ delegate for one, add a parameter such as `delegate=openid`.
+
+ An optional `xrds-location`
parameter lets you specify the location of any [eXtensible Resource
DescriptorS](http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/05/using_xrds.shtml).
- This lets you use an ikiwiki page as your OpenID. Example:
+ Example:
\\[[!meta openid="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/"
server="http://www.myopenid.com/server"
\[[!meta link="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/" rel="openid.delegate"]]
However, this latter syntax won't be allowed if the
- [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
+ [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
insert unsafe content.
* redir
\[[!meta redir="http://example.com/"]]
However, this latter syntax won't be allowed if the
- [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
+ [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
insert unsafe content.
For both cases, an anchor to jump to inside the destination page may also be
pages unchanged and avoid_flooding_aggregators
(see [[!iki tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]]).
+* updated
+
+ Specifies a fake modification time for a page, to be output into RSS and
+ Atom feeds. This is useful to avoid flooding aggregators that sort by
+ modification time, like Planet: for instance, when editing an old blog post
+ to add tags, you could set `updated` to be one second later than the original
+ value. The date/time can be given in any format that
+ [[!cpan TimeDate]] can understand, just like the `date` field.
+
If the field is not one of the above predefined fields, the metadata will be
written to the generated html page as a <meta> header. However, this
-won't be allowed if the [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,
+won't be allowed if the [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,
since it can be used to insert unsafe content.
[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]