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diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn index 20c8c02ac..62317ba1a 100644 --- a/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn @@ -107,3 +107,74 @@ definitions essentially. * title -- [[Jon]] + +>> Ok, I've had a bit of a think about this. There are currently 15 supported +>> meta fields. Of these: title, licence, copyright, author, authorurl, +>> and robots might make sense to define globally and override on a per-page +>> basis. +>> +>> Less so, description (due to its impact on map); openid (why would +>> someone want more than one URI to act as an openid endpoint to the same +>> place?); updated. I can almost see why someone might want to set a global +>> updated value. Almost. +>> +>> Not useful are permalink, date, stylesheet (you already have a global +>> stylesheet), link, redir, and guid. +>> +>> In other words, the limitations of my first patch that [[smcv]] outlined +>> are only relevant to defined fields that you wouldn't want to specify a +>> global default for anyway. +>> +>> Due to this, and the added complexity of the second patch (having to adjust +>> `IkiWiki/Setup.pm`), I think the first patch makes more sense. I've thus +>> reverted to it here. +>> +>> Is this merge-worthy? + + diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm + index b229592..3132257 100644 + --- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm + +++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/meta.pm + @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ sub import { + hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "meta", call => \&needsbuild); + hook(type => "preprocess", id => "meta", call => \&preprocess, scan => 1); + hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "meta", call => \&pagetemplate); + + hook(type => "scan", id => "meta", call => \&scan); + } + + sub getsetup () { + @@ -302,6 +303,15 @@ sub match { + } + } + + +sub scan() { + + my %params = @_; + + my $page = $params{page}; + + foreach my $type (map { s/^meta_//; $_ } grep /^meta_/, keys %config) { + + $pagestate{$page}{meta}{$type} = $config{"meta_$type"} + + unless defined $pagestate{$page}{meta}{$type}; + + } + +} + + + package IkiWiki::PageSpec; + + sub match_title ($$;@) { + diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn + index 000f461..200c4b2 100644 + --- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn + +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/meta.mdwn + @@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ also specifies some additional sub-parameters. + The field values are treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include + a quote in the text by writing `"` and so on. + + +You can also define site-wide defaults for meta values by including them + +in your setup file, e.g. + + + + meta_copyright => "Copyright 2007 by Joey Hess", + + meta_license => "GPL v2+", + + + Supported fields: + + * title + +-- [[Jon]] |