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title: Description
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This plugin generates descriptions that are used as metadata for the HTML head, the [[RSS Feed]] and in [[folder and tag listings]] if there is no main body content, the description is used as the text between the title and the listing.
If the frontmatter contains a description property, it is used (see [[authoring content#Syntax]]). Otherwise, the plugin will do its best to use the first few sentences of the content to reach the target description length.
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For information on how to add, remove or configure plugins, see the [[configuration#Plugins|Configuration]] page.
This plugin accepts the following configuration options:
descriptionLength: the maximum length of the generated description. Default is 150 characters. The cut off happens after the first sentence that ends after the given length.replaceExternalLinks: If true (default), replace external links with their domain and path in the description (e.g. https://domain.tld/some_page/another_page?query=hello&target=world is replaced with domain.tld/some_page/another_page).Plugin.Description().quartz/plugins/transformers/description.ts.