cified, it is saved as a meta tag; same with cover-image. In fact, the cover-image YAML parameter, combined with url, is needed for any kind of social sharing of your site. The description will also show up.


---
name: meta


# Viewing Meta &lt;i class="fas fa-tags"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;

```js
url: 'https\://alison-bookdown.netlify.com/' 
cover-image: images/books.jpg # relative to index
description: "This is a minimal example using the bookdown package for the rstudio::conf Advanced R Markdown Workshop."
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