document uuid

debian/changelog

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ ikiwiki (2.54) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Change deb dependencies to list Text::Markdown before markdown, since
     the former, while slower, has a much better html parser that avoids
     numerous bugs.
+  * meta: Support a uuid option, to allow forcing a particular uuid
+    in feeds.
 
  -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>  Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:30:33 -0700
 

doc/plugins/meta.mdwn

@@ -123,6 +123,19 @@ Supported fields:
   contents. In particular, it does not check the values against the set of
   valid values but serves whatever you pass it.
 
+* uuid
+
+  Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This ID will be used,
+  rather than the page url, in RSS and Atom feeds.
+
+  The uuid can either be a literal uuid (ie,
+  "ec248d04-f347-4eb8-92b6-671b15d36980"), or it can be an alternative URl
+  for the page.
+
+  This is mostly useful when a page's feed has moved, to keep the IDs for
+  pages unchanged and
+  [[avoid_flooding_aggregators|howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]].
+
 If the field is not one of the above predefined fields, the metadata will be
 written to the generated html page as a <meta> header. However, this
 won't be allowed if the [[htmlscrubber]] is enabled, since it can be used to

doc/tips/howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators.mdwn

@@ -23,3 +23,6 @@ parameter to the `inline` directive for your blog, with a condition such as:
 Where "old_post" is the name of the last post you made to the blog before
 making the change. This will limit the feed to only newer posts, while stil
 displaying the old posts in the blog page.
+
+Alternatively, you can add the [[plugins/meta]] uuid directives to pages,
+to force the old url to be used.

doc/todo/ability_to_force_particular_UUIDs_on_blog_posts.mdwn

@@ -13,3 +13,8 @@ Perhaps ikiwiki's blogging functionality could be hooked up to the [meta plugin]
 > While I was there, I noticed that the quality of the generated Atom/RSS feeds could be improved by making more use of the meta plugin if it's also enabled - would anyone object to me hacking on this some more?
 >
 > -[smcv](http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/)
+
+> [[merged|done]], thank you!
+> 
+> Of course I'm happy if you can improve the feeds. They do already
+> use some meta information (author, copyright). --[[Joey]]