Grabbing the right Meta description from Config.toml?

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Hello!
WARNING: Mucho pasta! Spaghetti code below, mmm mama mia!

How can I grab the right string of text for a meta description from my Config.toml?

This is what I am doing so far to achieve this:

My pages are made into .Section (/about/, /support/ etc). Each at its own folder in the root. Some of them are under /content/, some under partials/pages/ as templates. (It isn’t all over the place, its done like this for a reason.)

I want to grab the string from my Config.toml

[params.pages]
	about =     "This is a description for the about page."
...

And here is my meta description from my header.html

<meta name="description" content="
	{{- if .IsHome -}}
		{{- $.Site.Params.description -}}  /// this is for the main site
	{{- else if .IsSection -}}
		{{- if eq .Section "about" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.about -}}
		{{- else if eq .Section "support" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.support -}}
		{{- else if eq .Section "privacy" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.privacy -}}
		{{ else if eq .Section "site_map" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.site_map -}}
		{{- else if eq .Section "press_room" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.press_room -}}
		{{- else if eq .Section "video_policy" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.video_policy -}}
		{{- else if eq .Section "support" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.support -}}
		{{- else if eq .Section "contact" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.contact -}}
		{{- else if eq .Section "publishing" -}}
			{{- $.Site.Params.Pages.publishing -}}			
		{{- end -}}
	{{- .Params.description -}}
	{{ else }}
		{{- .Params.description -}}
	{{- end -}}">

Behold. This works. But since some of my pages are in content/blog/ and others are at the root, I have to access the config.toml with $.Site.Params., otherwise it won’t work. No biggie.

Can someone lend a hand and let me know how can I do this code I posted, as a function or something, in a more elegant way? Because really, i am no fan of spaghetti code.

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Do you need to put that information in the config.toml file? Looks like it would make more sense in the frontmatter and then you could do something like

{{ with .Params.description }} {{ . }} {{ end }}

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