Alternative for Meta plugin

[Andre601]

I would like to enable comments on all pages except a few specific ones...

Unfortunately is the meta plugin of material for mkdocs insiders only, which means I can't use it to define a specific meta value across an entire folder...
What alternatives do exist that would allow me to enable giscus support for all pages except some specific ones?

I assume overrides are the only way here, but I'm not sure what partials/blocks I would need to override to achieve this.

[Andre601]

I think I figured out a way...

Tho there is another thing that confuses me slightly.

On the docs do the posts have a clickable title... When I set one myself in a post is it shown, but not clickable... how come?

[squidfunk]

Yes, overrides would be the way to achieve that, and some custom logic in those overrides.

On the docs do the posts have a clickable title... When I set one myself in a post is it shown, but not clickable... how come?

A minimal reproduction is what we need to look into it.

[Andre601]

I simply copy-pasted the post.html file in the partials directory to add some SVG icons (btw, it seems like the "twemoji" class is not supported inside md-meta__item lists and needs a manual CSS altering to support it)

<article class="md-post md-post--excerpt">
    <header class="md-post__header">
  
      <!-- Post authors -->
      {% if post.authors %}
        <nav class="md-post__authors md-typeset">
          {% for author in post.authors %}
            <span class="md-author">
              <img src="{{ author.avatar }}" alt="{{ author.name }}" />
            </span>
          {% endfor %}
        </nav>
      {% endif %}
  
      <!-- Post metadata -->
      <div class="md-post__meta md-meta">
        <ul class="md-meta__list">
  
          <!-- Post date -->
          <li class="md-meta__item">
            <!-- Added by me -->
            <span class="twemoji">
              {% include ".icons/octicons/calendar-24.svg" %}
            </span>
            <time datetime="{{ post.meta.date }}">
              {{- post.meta.date_format -}}
            </time>
            {#- Collapse whitespace -#}
          </li>
  
          <!-- Post categories -->
          {% if post.categories %}
            <li class="md-meta__item">
              {{ lang.t("blog.categories.in") }}
              {% for category in post.categories %}
                <a
                  href="{{ category.url | url }}"
                  class="md-meta__link"
                >
                  {{- category.title -}}
                </a>
                {%- if loop.revindex > 1 %}, {% endif -%}
              {% endfor -%}
            </li>
          {% endif %}
  
          <!-- Post readtime -->
          {% if post.meta.readtime %}
            {% set time = post.meta.readtime %}
            <li class="md-meta__item">
              <!-- Added by me -->
              <span class="twemoji">
                {% include ".icons/octicons/stopwatch-24.svg" %}
              </span>
              {% if time == 1 %}
                {{ lang.t("readtime.one") }}
              {% else %}
                {{ lang.t("readtime.other") | replace("#", time) }}
              {% endif %}
            </li>
          {% endif %}
        </ul>
  
        <!-- Draft marker -->
        {% if post.meta.draft %}
          <span class="md-draft">
            {{ lang.t("blog.draft") }}
          </span>
        {% endif %}
      </div>
    </header>
  
    <!-- Post content -->
    <div class="md-post__content md-typeset">
      
      {{ post.content }}
  
      <!-- Continue reading link -->
      <nav class="md-post__action">
        <a href="{{ post.url | url }}" class="md-button">
          <!-- Added by me -->
          <span class="twemoji">
            {% include ".icons/octicons/book-24.svg" %}
          </span>
          {{ lang.t("blog.continue") }}
        </a>
      </nav>
    </div>
  </article>

[squidfunk]

Perfect, thanks for sharing! Note that the partials are currently not considered stable and will be refactored before the final release of 9.2.0, so this will need to be adapted. They are currently too big, but before refactoring, we need to collect some feedback first.