Treat document metadata (in the *.qmd file ) as first party metadata

[mckabue]

/posts/welcome/index.qmd

---
title: "Welcome To My Blog"
date: "2024-05-01"
categories: [news]
author: "martin from welcome"
---

This is the first post in a Quarto blog. Welcome!

![](thumbnail.jpg)

Since this post doesn't specify an explicit `image`, the first image in the post will be used in the listing page of posts.

/posts/_metadata.yml

categories: [tech]
author:
  - name: James from posts

With the above setup, I get the following post and listing:

---

However, if:

/posts/welcome/index.qmd

---
title: "Welcome To My Blog"
date: "2024-05-01"
---

This is the first post in a Quarto blog. Welcome!

![](thumbnail.jpg)

Since this post doesn't specify an explicit `image`, the first image in the post will be used in the listing page of posts.

/posts/welcome/_metadata.yml

categories: [news]
author: "martin from welcome"

/posts/_metadata.yml

categories: [tech]
author:
  - name: James from posts

I get the following post and listing:

---

When the metadata is in the document file, it overwrites all parent metadata such as authors and categories instead of extending it in the post page.

[cderv]

It seems the behavior is correct in the listing right ?

The image you shared shows both authors in there, and this is what you expect ?
Same for tags ?

Both are in the listing part, but not in the document

[mckabue]

Yes, the behavior is correct on the listing page.

However, the behavior is not correct on the post page

[cderv]

I'll create an issue for this. I think this is not limited to blog and listing, but is happening for any use of author in document and elsewhere

[mcanouil]

I am pretty sure there was a discussion/issue about this but cannot find it ... (maybe it was only a side comment in a discussion/issue)

[mcanouil]

Found it:

• How to manage author template, default author and custom authors posts? #8860

it was another issue were all were merged resulting in duplicates, the fix was: 478b3df

[cderv]

This is another one right ? Other topic ?

I opened this one, because I think we have a problem

• Some metadata set in _metadata.yml and in YAML header inside document are not correctly merged.  #9864

[mckabue]

What about categories field?

[mckabue]

when _metadata.yml file is used, categories are merged in the post page, but when metadata in the document, they are not merged.

[cderv]

Same problem I believe. What I describe in the issue is not only for authors.