Along with a corresponding field in language config in site config. It’s consistent with pages having a description. It would be useful to a lot of sites, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com : “Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos”. Atom feeds have a feed “subtitle” element, and RSS feeds have a f…

In Jekyll, description is a top level item. In Hugo, you use Params. [image] Why is site description not a site variable? support What was the decision behind having .Site.Title as a Site Variable and not .Site.Description as well?

In terms of consistency, @will has a point here. It’s unclear from the documentation why .Site.Copyright is a “root” method, while description is a params method. Both could be argued that require translation in a multiple language setup, and both would make sense to be overriden on a page level. T…

Yes, exactly. The presence of a site variable means that themes can be designed with site descriptions in mind, not just HTML, but other formats and data like RSS, Atom, JSON-LD, and HTML microdata.

There should be a site description in site config

feature

tyco January 20, 2025, 1:24pm 2

In Jekyll, description is a top level item. In Hugo, you use Params.

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There should be a site description in site config

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