Meta tag improvements

[joemull]

As a developer I'd like a few improvements relate to writing meta tags:

• Django provides request.build_absolute_uri() for getting an absolute URI for any location. This is useful in templates when creating precise meta tags. So I'd like a template tag for this method, because so far as I know, we don't have another way to build these URLs in some cases. Example usage:

  <meta property="og:image" content="{% build_absolute_uri request.press.default_carousel_image.url %}">

• Use Django's built-in truncatewords rather than our custom truncatesmart in templates/common/elements/social_meta.html

[ajrbyers]

We have a template tag for building urls with the sites framework:

{% site_url 'core_reset_password' reset_token.token %} is an example.

Is this not working as expected?

[joemull]

We have a template tag for building urls with the sites framework:

{% site_url 'core_reset_password' reset_token.token %} is an example.

Is this not working as expected?

If memory serves I tried to use this but we didn't have a url_name that would work as an argument to site_url for the URL I put in the example. In other words our custom site_url is not as flexible as Django's build_absolute_uri.

[ajrbyers]

Cool - its worth double checking if using build_absolute_uri will work correctly with the sites middleware. I wonder if there is a reason we haven't used it in the past. (@mauromsl ?)