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Add a meta tag to my journal

I’d like to add a <meta> tag to the HTML of my journal - that has to go inside the <head>...</head> section, so I guess I have to modify my style or create a layer or something.

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options says I’m using “Cinnamon Cream” and “Crossroads by branchandroot” (I’m guessing the first is the colour scheme and the second is the style?).

Could someone help me accomplish this, please? Handholding would be appreciated since I’m really not a styles person.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

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Thanks!

On http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layers, I now have an additional layer: "theme Cinnamon Cream pne" (that's what I called it), which contains my Page::print_custom_head.

However, http://pne.dreamwidth.org/ doesn't contain my meta tag (it should be <meta name="microid" content="(cryptic string)" />).

Again on http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layers, I clicked on "Child of layer 82592: Crossroads", which took me to http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layerbrowse?id=82592, and then I tried "Raw Source Code" which goes to http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=82592 ... and on that page, there's no "print_custom_head", only "print_head".

Does that mean that Crossroads isn't customisable via custom headers?

Edited (typo) 2010-10-16 14:25 (UTC)

Hrm, no, that is not the problem--Crossroads inherits from Core2, where both print_head and print_custom_head are defined:

function Page::print_head() {
    print $.head_content;
    $this->print_custom_head();
}

function Page::print_custom_head() {
    # blank
}

So alas this is not working as it should I think, and it must be fixed! Now I'm wondering where the problem is. I don't think it's the cleaner...

Anyway, we're going to have to do what I hoped not to do: copy the function Page::print() function into the theme layer you are making and edit it instead. You should probably find the section of <head> inside all the printing and be able to add your tag there--this time I tested doing that and it worked something like:

    """
    >!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"<
    >html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"<
    >head<""";
        $this-<print_head();
        $this-<print_stylesheets();
        $this-<print_head_title(); 
        """>meta name="description" content="TESTING" /<""";
    println ">/head<";

WOE. And I will file a bug to try and figure out why that darned function that was supposed to work for cases like this is not!

Edited (oh noes HTML escaping) 2010-10-16 18:21 (UTC)

oh lordy I mixed up my signs. BUT I THINK YOU CAN TELL WHAT I MEAN.

Not "just working" for me, don't know why. Compiled with no errors but did not show up in the page source. When I added it to already existing print custom head code (for my favicon) it broke my header CSS; when added as a second, separate function, the meta-ness did not show up in the source at all (though it did,like I said, compile).

I would like to add META tags, too...

BTW, my layer...

http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/layersource?id=116552

False alarm, so it's working for me: I forgot to actually add meta tags (I just copied out your example text, duh). Sorted!

Edited (omg I'm an idiot) 2010-10-17 05:34 (UTC)

So alas this is not working as it should I think, and it must be fixed! Now I'm wondering where the problem is.

In case you didn't read

matgb’s comment: I had to select the theme layer first before it would do anything. Once I did, it Just Worked.

So no bug has to be filed (well, except the meta-bug "make all this stuff completely intuitive so that even a doddle-head can do it with both hands tied behind their back, without having to ask in a community first").

Thank you!

Edited (no bug need be filed) 2010-10-16 18:59 (UTC)

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