About

Front Matter is a component that permits to replicate the metadata into your page.

This functionality is used when you want to:

• move your pages and get the metadata in sync in other ComboStrap installation
• get an history of the metadata modification
• want to kept your short page id close to your page when using permant url

It borrows its name from the front matter book

Example

A frontmatter is a block located at the start of your page that:

• starts with ---json
• contains a json document representing your metadata
• end with ---

Example:

---json
{
    "name":"Short Name",
    "title":"My Big title in the Search Engine Result Pages",
    "description":"That's the article that you want to read!"
}
---

Replication

The frontmatter replication happens by default page by page when you submit the metadata manager form.

• If you have just enabled the frontmatter in the configuration
• And that you want to replicate the managed metadata for all pages
• You can call the metadata-to-frontmatter command of the cli.

cd $DOKUWIKI_HOME
# optional (for farm)
animal=animal-directory-name
# command
php ./bin/plugin.php combo metadata-to-frontmatter