Frontmatter

Dendron notes have frontmatter. Dendron Jekyll uses this frontmatter to configure various aspects about the appearance and publication status of a particular page.

Appearance

title: string

Title of the content. Control's how the title shows up in the nav bar

sources: source[]

Automatically create attributions for a page

eg: AWS Page

...
sources:
  - name: og-aws
    url: 'https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws'
    license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
  - name: Jerry Hargrove
    url: 'https://www.awsgeek.com/'
    license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Publication

published: boolean

Specifies if the page should be published or not.

By default, everything under siteHierarchies is published unless publishByDefault is turned off. In that case, you must set published: true in order to publish a page under the given hierarchy.

You can also set this to false to selectively withhold specific pages from publication.

From dendron.topic.publishing.configuration

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config

Per hierarchy specific config. To set options for all hierarchies, set {hiearchy name} to root.

config:
  {hierarchy name}: {hierarchy options}

The list of possible options:

publishByDefault: boolean, default: true
- if set to false, dendron will only publish notes within the hierarchy that have published: true set in the frontmatter
noindexByDefault: boolean, default: false
- if set to true, dendron will add the following meta tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow”> which will tell google to not index your page
- when google indexes a page, it will penalize sites that have duplicate content from other sites. this is useful if you are using your hiearchy as a cache
customFrontmatter: list, default: []
- if set, dendron will add the specified frontmatter to each published note in the hierarchy. note that this will override existing keys with the same name when publishing
- eg. add toc: true to all notes published under the iam.* hierarchy
```
  config:
    iam: 
        customFrontmatter: [
          {
            key: "toc",
            value: true,
          }
        ]
```