Re meta content on export is it trivial or complicated to mo Dendron #questions

Re: meta content on export, is it trivial or compl...

AshSimmonds

05/26/2022, 8:45 AM

Re: meta content on export, is it trivial or complicated to modify the

<meta name="description" content="Dendron is a local-first, markdown based blah"/>

stuff? (what is displayed in various social media previews when pasting a link)

AshSimmonds

05/26/2022, 8:46 AM

Just want to know before I go spelunking through the code, back in the day I did SEO guru stuff for a living, and want to optimise the exported outputs.

hikchoi

05/26/2022, 9:20 AM

this can be set in

dendron.yml

. See: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/NDMKzlG6GpZE5VuMuyRxO/

hikchoi

05/26/2022, 9:20 AM

Copy code

yml
...
publishing:
  seo:
    description: "your description here"
...

AshSimmonds

05/26/2022, 9:32 AM

I understand that, however it's vault-wide. I'm talking about picking up the data dynamically, such as from the

description

or such that you can put into the front-matter.

AshSimmonds

05/26/2022, 9:42 AM

Here's an example of standard export output when I paste a link here: https://bluedwarf.space/dendron/notes/02gh49nh6fhaac1gyi9niz9/

AshSimmonds

05/26/2022, 9:43 AM

Here's one that I modified manually, but it uses information already available in the page itself: https://bluedwarf.space/dendron/notes/kvawfud3js7d1wovboey2tp/

hikchoi

05/26/2022, 9:46 AM

the

excerpt

field in your note's frontmatter will be used as the

og:description

hikchoi

05/26/2022, 9:47 AM

example: https://blog.dendron.so/notes/3dd58f62-fee5-4f93-b9f1-b0f0f59a9b64/

hikchoi

05/26/2022, 9:47 AM

this is the markdown of this published note: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dendronhq/dendron-blog/main/vault/blog.2020.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking.md

AshSimmonds

05/26/2022, 9:48 AM

Ah cool thanks, I hadn't stumbled on that meta bit yet..

AshSimmonds

05/26/2022, 9:49 AM

Looks like that's the stuff I was seeking, should sort out most of my needs there.

hikchoi

05/26/2022, 9:50 AM

this is on us. this was documented with our legacy publishing docs, but this bit of information seems to have been omitted while we were refactoring publishing related docs 😅

AshSimmonds

05/26/2022, 9:53 AM

Cool bananas, just glad I asked before trying to mod it myself.

hikchoi

05/26/2022, 9:55 AM

Feel free to ask anything that's not clear in Discord 🙂 Someone will always be here to help. I'll take note of this omitted bit of info and make sure we include it in our up to date docs.

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