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diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn index 0da425402..9c3a36b8f 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn @@ -82,11 +82,19 @@ configuration. It's called early in the startup process. The function is passed no values. It's ok for the function to call `error()` if something isn't configured right. +### refresh + + hook(type => "refresh", id => "foo", call => \&refresh); + +This hook is called just before ikiwiki scans the wiki for changed files. +It's useful for plugins that need to create or modify a source page. The +function is passed no values. + ### needsbuild hook(type => "needsbuild", id => "foo", call => \&needsbuild); -This allows a plugin the manipulate the list of files that need to be +This allows a plugin to manipulate the list of files that need to be built when the wiki is refreshed. The function is passed a reference to an array of pages that will be rebuilt, and can modify the array, either adding or removing files from it. @@ -523,6 +531,19 @@ destination file, as registered by `will_render`. Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be rendered to. +## Internal use pages + +Sometimes it's useful to put pages in the wiki without the overhead of +having them be rendered to individual html files. Such internal use pages +are collected together to form the RecentChanges page, for example. + +To make an internal use page, register a filename extension that starts +with "_". Internal use pages cannot be edited with the web interface, +generally shouldn't contain wikilinks or preprocessor directives (use +either on them with extreme caution), and are not matched by regular +PageSpecs glob patterns, but instead only by a special `internal()` +[[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]. + ## RCS plugins ikiwiki's support for [[revision_control_systems|rcs]] also uses pluggable |