diff --git a/pelican/generators.py b/pelican/generators.py
index a034fb85..88ee6919 100755
--- a/pelican/generators.py
+++ b/pelican/generators.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from operator import attrgetter
 from itertools import chain
+from functools import partial
 from datetime import datetime
 from collections import defaultdict
 import os
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ class ArticlesGenerator(Generator):
                             self.settings['TAG_FEED_RSS'] % tag, feed_type='rss')
 
         translations_feeds = defaultdict(list)
-        for article in self.translations:
+        for article in chain(self.articles, self.translations):
             translations_feeds[article.lang].append(article)
 
         for lang, items in translations_feeds.items():
@@ -128,7 +129,10 @@ class ArticlesGenerator(Generator):
         TODO: change the name"""
 
         templates = self.get_templates()
-        write = writer.write_file
+        write = partial(
+            writer.write_file,
+            relative_urls = self.settings.get('RELATIVE_URLS')
+        )
         for template in _DIRECT_TEMPLATES:
             write('%s.html' % template, templates[template], self.context,
                     blog=True)
@@ -223,7 +227,8 @@ class PagesGenerator(Generator):
         templates = self.get_templates()
         for page in chain(self.translations, self.pages):
             writer.write_file('pages/%s' % page.save_as, templates['page'],
-                    self.context, page=page)
+                    self.context, page=page,
+                    relative_urls = self.settings.get('RELATIVE_URLS'))
 
 
 class StaticGenerator(Generator):
diff --git a/pelican/readers.py b/pelican/readers.py
index 7ff393c5..1fc51f68 100644
--- a/pelican/readers.py
+++ b/pelican/readers.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from docutils import core
 from markdown import Markdown
 import re
+import string
 
 # import the directives to have pygments support
 import rstdirectives
@@ -8,11 +9,11 @@ import rstdirectives
 from pelican.utils import get_date, open
 
 
-_METADATAS_FIELDS = {'tags': lambda x: x.split(', '),
-                     'date': lambda x: get_date(x),
-                     'category': lambda x: x,
-                     'author': lambda x: x,
-                     'status': lambda x:x.strip(),}
+_METADATAS_PROCESSORS = {
+    'tags': lambda x: map(string.strip, x.split(',')),
+    'date': lambda x: get_date(x),
+    'status': string.strip,
+}
 
 
 class RstReader(object):
@@ -20,10 +21,11 @@ class RstReader(object):
     def _parse_metadata(self, content):
         """Return the dict containing metadatas"""
         output = {}
-        for m in re.compile(':([a-z]+): (.*)\s', re.M).finditer(content):
+        for m in re.compile('^:([a-z]+): (.*)\s', re.M).finditer(content):
             name, value = m.group(1).lower(), m.group(2)
-            if name in _METADATAS_FIELDS:
-                output[name] = _METADATAS_FIELDS[name](value)
+            output[name] = _METADATAS_PROCESSORS.get(
+                name, lambda x:x
+            )(value)
         return output
 
     def read(self, filename):
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ class MarkdownReader(object):
         metadatas = {}
         for name, value in md.Meta.items():
             name = name.lower()
-            metadatas[name] = _METADATAS_FIELDS.get(
+            metadatas[name] = _METADATAS_PROCESSORS.get(
                 name, lambda x:x
             )(value[0])
         return content, metadatas
diff --git a/pelican/settings.py b/pelican/settings.py
index 599f56ee..8f0dcdbd 100644
--- a/pelican/settings.py
+++ b/pelican/settings.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ _DEFAULT_CONFIG = {'PATH': None,
                    'REVERSE_ARCHIVE_ORDER': False,
                    'KEEP_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY': False,
                    'CLEAN_URLS': False, # use /blah/ instead /blah.html in urls
+                   'RELATIVE_URLS': True,
                    'DEFAULT_LANG': 'en',
                   }