From 117808b653817e8ff7c7fc747361d2227de07a82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Wittman <dave@wittman.xyz>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 10:54:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Improve meta description

Rather than use the same description on every page, prefer the post
summary if it's available and only use .Params.description on the root
page.

This mimics the behavior of the [opengraph internal
template](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/tpl/tplimpl/embedded/templates/opengraph.html#L2)
for the `og:description` tag.
---
 layouts/partials/header.html | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/layouts/partials/header.html b/layouts/partials/header.html
index c594dfb..14b1248 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/header.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/header.html
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@
 	{{- end -}}
 
 	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
-	{{- if isset .Site.Params "description" }}
-	<meta name="description" content="{{ .Site.Params.description }}" />
-	{{- end }}
+	<meta name="description" content="{{ with .Description }}{{ . }}{{ else }}{{if .IsPage}}{{ .Summary }}{{ else }}{{ with .Site.Params.description }}{{ . }}{{ end }}{{ end }}{{ end }}" />
 	<meta property="og:image" content="{{ .Site.Params.og_image }}"/>
 	{{ with .OutputFormats.Get "rss" -}}
 	{{ printf `<link rel="%s" type="%s" href="%s" title="%s" />` .Rel .MediaType.Type .Permalink $.Site.Title | safeHTML }}