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diff --git a/doc/bugs/cannot_reliably_use_meta_in_template.mdwn b/doc/bugs/cannot_reliably_use_meta_in_template.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..046f40a7e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/cannot_reliably_use_meta_in_template.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +meta title cannot reliably be put inside a template used by the +[[plugins/template]] plugin. Since meta title info is gathered in the scan +pass, which does not look at the template a page includes, it will not be +seen then, and so other pages that use the page title probably won't use +it. (Barring luck with build order.) + +There is a simple fix for this, just add `scan => 1` when registering the +preprocess hook for the template plugin. + +However, the overhead of this has to be considered. It means that, on every +scan pass, every page containing a template will cause the template to be +loaded and filled out. This can be some serious additional overhead. + +--[[Joey]] |