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Improve page metadata for sharing #274

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This PR addresses the issues in Issue #203:

  • In _config.yml file:
    • Enable page excerpts
    • Set excerpt separator
  • In base layout:
    • Calculate title, description, URL in one place for meta tags
    • Always use page values for meta tags when present, fallback to site values
    • Replace conditional tags with single tag that uses calculated value
    • Move robots meta tag out from the middle of Open Graph tags
    • Reduce excessive whitespace from generated newlines
  • Add explicit excerpts to front matter of pages where automatic excerpt was not suitable / sufficient
  • Small adjustments to page first paragraphs to generate better description meta tags
  • Resolves Meta tag, Open Graph, and Twitter sharing metadata problems #203

- In _config.yml file:
  - Enable page excerpts
  - Set excerpt separator
- In base layout:
  - Calculate title, description, URL in one place for meta tags
  - Always use page values for meta tags when present, fallback to site values
  - Replace conditional tags with single tag that uses calculated value
  - Move robots meta tag out from the middle of Open Graph tags
  - Reduce excessive whitespace from generated newlines
- Add explicit excerpts to front matter of pages where automatic
  excerpt was not suitable / sufficient
- Small adjustments to page first paragraphs to generate better description
  meta tags
- Resolves swiftlang#203
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@dempseyatgithub dempseyatgithub marked this pull request as draft March 31, 2023 13:45
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I just found an unexpected issue with this PR.

It causes all the posts on the main blog page to render full text instead of excerpts.

I won't have time today to track down the cause, but will turn this back into a full PR once I address that issue.

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I have spent some time investigating the issue.

There seems to be a bug in Jekyll where turning on page excerpts causes each post on the blog page to display its full text and not its excerpt.

I tested with the latest version of Jekyll and still see this issue.

I also have found the issue to be nondeterministic. Sometimes I can enable page excerpts without the bug occurring, sometimes it seems adding a call into the page excerpt for the meta tags causes it to happen. However, backing out the changes does not always revert the behavior.

I haven't found a similar issue mentioned searching in Jekyll forums. My next step would be to try to reproduce the issue in a simple Jekyll project.

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