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diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn index 0e4f2fd6f..4e27d361d 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn @@ -467,6 +467,15 @@ When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too. Note that page state does not persist across wiki rebuilds, only across wiki updates. +### %wikistate + +The `%wikistate` hash can be used by a plugin to store persistant state +that is not bound to any one page. To set a value, use +`$wikistate{$id}{$key}=$value, where `$value` is anything Storable can +serialize, `$key` is any string you like, and `$id` must be the same as the +"id" parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin, so that the +state can be dropped if the plugin is no longer used. + ### Other variables If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can |