-[[template id=plugin name=meta author="[[Joey]]"]]
-[[tag type/meta]]
+[[!template id=plugin name=meta author="[[Joey]]"]]
+[[!tag type/meta]]
This plugin allows inserting arbitrary metadata into the source of a page.
Enter the metadata as follows:
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]] plugin.
+
* permalink
Specifies a permanent link to the page, if different than the page
* date
Specifies the creation date of the page. The date can be entered in
- nearly any format, since it's parsed by [[cpan TimeDate]].
+ nearly any format, since it's parsed by [[!cpan TimeDate]].
* stylesheet
* guid
- Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This guid will be used,
- rather than the page url, to identify the page in RSS and Atom feeds.
-
- The guid can either be a uuid (ie,
- "ec248d04-f347-4eb8-92b6-671b15d36980"), or it can be an alternative URL
- for the page.
+ Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This guid should be a URI
+ (in particular, it can be `urn:uuid:` followed by a UUID, as per
+ [[!rfc 4122]]), and it will be used to identify the page's entry in RSS
+ and Atom feeds. If not given, the default is to use the page's URL as its
+ guid.
- This is mostly useful when a page's feed has moved, to keep the guids for
+ This is mostly useful when a page has moved, to keep the guids for
pages unchanged and
- [[avoid_flooding_aggregators|howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]].
+ [[avoid_flooding_aggregators|tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]].
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