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-rw-r--r--doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn10
-rw-r--r--doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn1
2 files changed, 8 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
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn
index 6aec561ae..fe1af4c15 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/pagespec.mdwn
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Some more elaborate limits can be added to what matches using these functions:
tags matched by a glob)
* "`backlink(page)`" - matches only pages that a given page links to
* "`creation_month(month)`" - matches only files created on the given month
+ number
* "`creation_day(mday)`" - or day of the month
* "`creation_year(year)`" - or year
* "`created_after(page)`" - matches only files created after the given page