doc/todo/rss_title_description.mdwn



There could be a better way of setting the title and description of the rss feeds. Perhaps
through the meta plugin, or extra options to the inline plugin.
At the moment The description is the same for all feeds from
a single wiki it seems, and the title is forced to be one word,
though I don't think it needs to be.
A few pointers and I might be able to implement this myself. -- JamesWestby

I don't see any problem with the title, it's the same as the title
of the wiki page that the rss feed comes from, which can be set
using the meta plugin. There are no restrictions to one word or
anything like that. Just made ikiwiki emit the following in a test
feed:


Now, the description field currently defaults to the wiki name,
and that could indeed stand to be made configurable. Since the
current (svn) version of ikiwiki supports long, word-wrapped
blocks of text as parameters to [[ikiwiki/Directive]]s, seems
to me the best way would be to simple modify inline.pm to make the
descripion configurable by such parameter, with a fallback to the
wiki name. You'll need to modify rsspage.tmpl to use whatever new
template variable you define, that should be all.


--[[Joey]]

Apologies for the title thing. I tried it yesterday, and it onlt used the first word.
I must have done something wrong. I'll have a look at implementing the description.
Thanks. -- JamesWestby
My patch can be found at http://jameswestby.net/scratch/blog-desc.diff -- JamesWestby

Thanks, [[todo/done]] --[[Joey]]