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/"
+ \[[!meta openid="http://joeyh.myopenid.com/"
server="http://www.myopenid.com/server"
xrds-location="http://www.myopenid.com/xrds?username=joeyh.myopenid.com""]]
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 desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,