_index.md / index.md pages won't show TOC or Description about risotto HOT 3 CLOSED

@joeroe Honestly, it was my first time using any kind of static site generator, let alone a Hugo theme. The TOC / Author stuff was just me not totally understanding the intended organization of the site, and it makes total sense to me that an _index.md page would act as the TOC for its directory. But the description is a good add.

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The table of contents and the description, author information etc. in the sidebar is part of risotto's single page template. But _index.md uses the list template, not a single page template.

I'm not sure that, in general, it makes sense to add the TOC/author metadata to list pages. Usually they are in themselves a kind of table of contents, and don't have one specific author. @jdcarls2 What's your intention in using /projects/some-project/_index.md instead of /projects/some-project.md? They should result in the same rendered URL.

However I can see that it would be nice to set a description for these pages.

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Although a bit off-topic, I think you should also add page description to single page template instead of a site level description?

Maybe something like this, I'm not sure whether the page description would just override the site one.

<!-- Site level -->
{{ with .Site.Params.about }}<meta name="description" content="{{ .description }}">{{ end }}
<!-- Page level -->
<meta name="description" content="{{ .Params.description }}">

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