Roller supports a content field and a summary field. I believe the content field is what you would refer to as the "description" field and it is what is placed into the RSS <description> element in your RSS feed.
You can also enter a summary if you want a shorter summary of your post to appear on the main page of your blog (the content field is what will appear on the post's page). Hope that helps. - Dave On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/19/2012 8:41 AM, Dave wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Glen Mazza<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, my blog is hosted on JRoller so I'm using Roller 3.1. For URLs which >>> point directly to a specific blog entry (such as here: >>> http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/cxf_and_metro_team_links, instead of >>> a >>> day, month, or category, etc.), I'd like to alter the<title> and<meta >>> name="description"/> tags in the HTML<head> part to increase hits while >>> Googling and also to make the Google title and description more relevant >>> for >>> the blog posting. I got the former done fine in the "header" template >>> but >>> am having problems with the latter: >>> >>> #if ($model.permalink == false) >>> <title>#showWebsiteTitle()</title> >>> <meta name="description" content="#showWebsiteDescription()"> >>> #else >>> <title>$model.weblogEntry.title | #showWebsiteTitle()</title> >>> <!--meta name="description" content="$model.weblogEntry.????"--> >>> #end >>> >>> <title> works great now, but description is difficult, I don't know what >>> if >>> anything I can place in that "????" above. Within each blog entry, I'd >>> like >>> to have a field where I can put in the description blurb ("This blog >>> entry >>> shows you blah blah blah...") that the above template would read in. >>> >>> Any ideas for Roller 3.1? If not, has this been solved in Roller 4.0 or >>> 5.0? I can put in an enhancement request if it's not already available. >> >> Roller now has title, summary and description for each post, but I >> believe that summary was added after Roller 3.1. >> >> - Dave > > Hmm, having checked a Roller 5.0 instance, I couldn't see any field on the > blog entry form where I could type in the description. Am I looking in the > wrong place? > > > Glen > > > -- > Glen Mazza > Talend Community Coder > http://coders.talend.com > -- Dave M. Johnson Apache Roller PMC Chair http://rollerweblogger.org/roller
