Applying Front Matter Defaults to plugin-generated pages

[ohadschn]

I couldn't get Front Matter Defaults to be applied on the plugin-generated category/tag pages, even when no filters were specified in the relevant _config.yml section:

defaults:
  - scope:
      path: ""
    values:
      header:
        image: images/foo.jpg # this works for posts and pages, but not jekyll-archives pages

[piyushpaliwal]

This issue is open since a couple of years now. Is it possible to have some sort of configuration applied for adding the front matter defaults?

[ashmaroli]

@piyushpaliwal Have you tried changing the type value in the defaults configuration?
For example, say I want my category archives to default to show_read_more: true. The my config file would have the following:

defaults:
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: category  # For tag-based archive pages, this would have been 'tag'
    values:
      show_read_more: true

[piyushpaliwal]

Thanks a lot @ashmaroli, this indeed fixed my problem.