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diff --git a/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn b/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..492a8d747 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/allow_site-wide_meta_definitions.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +[[!tag plugins/meta patch]] + +I'd like to define [[plugins/meta]] values to apply across all pages +site-wide unless the pages define their own: default values for meta +definitions essentially. + +Here's a patch to achieve this (also in the "defaultmeta" branch of +my github ikiwiki fork): + + 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]] + +> This doesn't support multiple-argument meta directives like +> `link=x rel=y`, or meta directives with special side-effects like +> `updated`. +> +> The first could be solved (if you care) by a syntax like this: +> +> meta_defaults => [ +> { copyright => "© me" }, +> { link => "about:blank", rel => "silly", }, +> ] +> +> The second could perhaps be solved by invoking `meta::preprocess` from within +> `scan` (which might be a simplification anyway), although this is complicated +> by the fact that some (but not all!) meta headers are idempotent. +> +> --[[smcv]] |