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| author | http://jmtd.livejournal.com/ <http://jmtd.livejournal.com/@web> | 2010-10-23 17:35:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2010-10-23 17:35:42 +0000 |
| commit | d567c8b209e6643f603d04f8f62f2ca67e9154c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 6fde12236b65205a3ebcfd9d550ec94c97b33456 /doc/ikiwiki/directive | |
| parent | 91a3b74711df8a74e2d600ba3b0bca8f441d1958 (diff) | |
expand on using templates outside the wiki source directory
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn index 6c50fa32e..9e3ae54df 100644 --- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn +++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn @@ -34,11 +34,15 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template: The template is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside the source directory of the wiki. -(Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki, +Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki, as files with the extension ".tmpl". -By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`; +By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched -first.) +first. When referring to templates outside the wiki source directory, the "id" +parameter is not interpreted as a pagespec, and you must include the full filename +of the template page, including the ".tmpl" extension. E.g.: + + \[[!template id=blogpost.tmpl]] The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its |