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authorJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-10-23 15:02:58 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-10-23 15:02:58 -0400
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Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.ikiwiki.info/srv/git/ikiwiki.info
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@@ -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