\[[!meta field="value" param="value" param="value"]]
The first form sets a given field to a given value, while the second form
-also specifies some additional sub-parameters.
+also specifies some additional sub-parameters. You can have only one field
+per `meta` directive, use more directives if you want to specify more fields.
The field values are treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include
a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on.
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
\[[!meta stylesheet=somestyle rel="alternate stylesheet"
title="somestyle"]]
+
+ However, this will be scrubbed away if the
+ [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,
+ since it can be used to insert unsafe content.
* 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""]]
- By default this will delegate for both `openid` and `openid2`. To only
- delegate for one, add a parameter such as `delegate=openid`.
-
* link
Specifies a link to another page. This can be used as a way to make the