New upstream version 3.20180105

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / ikiwiki / directive / meta.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
index 72cfc6f569ee434f74e66f82d1759309786c28c6..3df176c4831a54229801cec595446710dfd5c1d2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ 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.
 
 The field values are treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include
 a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on.
 

-Supported fields:
+## Supported fields

 
 * title
 
 
 * title
 


@@ -59,6 +59,15 @@ Supported fields:
   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.
 
   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.
 

+* keywords
+
+  Specifies keywords summarizing the contents of the page. This
+  information will be put in the html header.  Only letters,
+  numbers, spaces and commas are allowed in this string; other
+  characters are stripped.  Note that the majority of search
+  engines, including Google, do not use information from the
+  keywords header.
+

 * permalink
 
   Specifies a permanent link to the page, if different than the page
 * permalink
 
   Specifies a permanent link to the page, if different than the page


@@ -127,14 +136,20 @@ Supported fields:
   [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
   insert unsafe content.
 
   [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled, since it can be used to
   insert unsafe content.
 

+* enclosure
+
+  Specifies a link to a file to be rendered as an "enclosure" in
+  RSS/Atom feeds (and a plain old link in HTML). Useful for
+  [[!iki podcast desc=podcasting]].
+

 * redir
 
   Causes the page to redirect to another page in the wiki.
 
        \[[!meta redir=otherpage]]
 
 * redir
 
   Causes the page to redirect to another page in the wiki.
 
        \[[!meta redir=otherpage]]
 

-  Optionally, a delay (in seconds) can be specified. The default is to
-  redirect without delay.
+  The default is to redirect without delay.
+  Optionally, a delay (in seconds) can be specified: "delay=10"

 
   It can also be used to redirect to an external url. For example:
 
 
   It can also be used to redirect to an external url. For example:
 


@@ -189,9 +204,25 @@ Supported fields:
 
        \[[!meta foaf=foaf.rdf]]
 
 
        \[[!meta foaf=foaf.rdf]]
 

+* name
+
+  Adds a HTML `<meta>` header with this `name` attribute. Its other attributes are
+  taken from the other parameters, so for example
+  `\[[!meta name="foo" content="bar" x-non-standard-attribute="baz"]]`
+  becomes `<meta name="foo" content="bar" x-non-standard-attribute="baz">`. This
+  won't be allowed if the [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,
+  since it can be used to insert unsafe content.
+
+## Other fields
+

 If the field is not one of the above predefined fields, the metadata will be
 If the field is not one of the above predefined fields, the metadata will be

-written to the generated html page as a &lt;meta&gt; header. However, this
-won't be allowed if the [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled,
-since it can be used to insert unsafe content.
+written to the generated html page as a &lt;meta&gt; header. For example,
+`\[[!meta foo="bar"]]` becomes `<meta name="foo" content="bar">`. As
+with `name`, this won't be allowed if the [[!iki plugins/htmlscrubber
+desc=htmlscrubber]] plugin is enabled.
+
+This syntax cannot be used for meta headers with unusual names, in
+particular names containing `:` such as `flattr:id` and `twitter:card`.
+Please use `\[[!meta name="..." content="..."]]` for those headers.

 
 [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
 
 [[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]