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[[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:

\[[meta field="value"]]
\[[meta field="value" param="value" param="value"]]

The first form sets a given field to a given value, while the second form also specifies some additional sub-parameters.

You can use any field names you like, but here are some predefined ones:

  • link

    Specifies a link to another page. This is used to generate a html <link> tag, and also as a way to make the wiki treat one page as linking to another without displaying a user-visible link. The latter can be useful when using links to categorise pages. A html link tag would look like this:

    [[meta link="foo.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"]]

    A non-user-visible [[WikiLink]] would instead look like this:

    [[meta link=otherpage]]

  • title

    Overrides the title of the page, which is generally the same as the page name.

    Note that if the title is overridden, a "title_overridden" variable will be set to a true value in the template; this can be used to format things differently in this case.

  • license

    Specifies a copyright license for the page, for example, "GPL".

  • author

    Specifies the author of a page.

  • permalink

    Specifies a permanent link to the page, if different than the page generated by ikiwiki.

  • date

    Specifies the creation date of the page. The date can be entered in nearly any format, since it's parsed by [[cpan TimeDate]].

If the field is not treated specially (as the link and title fields are), the metadata will be written to the generated html page as a <meta> header.

The field value is treated as HTML entity-escaped text, so you can include a quote in the text by writing &quot; and so on.