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+[[!tag plugins/meta patch]]
+[[!template id=gitbranch branch=jon/defaultmeta author="[[Jon]]"]]
+
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[[!tag patch]] to achieve this (also in the "defaultmeta" branch of
+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
@@ -52,3 +55,20 @@ my github ikiwiki fork):
* 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]]