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diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn index 574c8b125..21a8105d0 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn @@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ [[tag type/useful]] This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the wiki. -Aggregate a feed as follows +Aggregate a feed as follows: - \[[aggregate name="example blog" + \[[aggregate name="example blog" dir="example" feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss" url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15"]] @@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ more frequently than once every 15 minutes, and puts a page per post under the example/ directory in the wiki. You can then use ikiwiki's [[ikiwiki/blog]] support to create a blog of one or -more aggregated feeds. +more aggregated feeds. For example: + + \[[inline pages="internal(example/*)"]] ## setup @@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ crontab entry: Alternatively, you can allow `ikiwiki.cgi` to trigger the aggregation. You should only need this if for some reason you cannot use cron, and instead want to use a service such as [WebCron](http://webcron.org). To enable -this, enable on `aggregate_webtrigger` in your setup file. The url to +this, turn on `aggregate_webtrigger` in your setup file. The url to visit is `http://whatever/ikiwiki.cgi?do=aggregate_webtrigger`. Anyone can visit the url to trigger an aggregation run, but it will only check each feed if its `updateinterval` has passed. @@ -59,9 +61,40 @@ directive: * `tag` - A tag to tag each post from the feed with. A good tag to use is the name of the feed. Can be repeated multiple times. The [[tag]] plugin must be enabled for this to work. -* `template` - Template to use for creating the html pages. Defaults to +* `template` - Template to use for creating the aggregated pages. Defaults to aggregatepost. Note that even if you are using subversion or another revision control system, pages created by aggregation will *not* be checked into revision control. + +## internal pages + +This plugin creates a page for each aggregated item. + +Currently, by default, these pages have the ".html" extension, and are +first-class wiki pages -- which allows them to be inlined into blogs +and even edited. + +That turns out to not be ideal for aggregated content, because publishing +files for each of those pages is a waste of disk space and CPU, and you probably +don't want to allow them to be edited. So, there is an alternate method +that can be used, turned on by the `aggregateinternal` option in the setup +file. + +If `aggregateinternal` is enabled, aggregated pages are stored in the source +directory with a "._aggregate" extension. These pages cannot be edited by +web users, and do not generate first-class wiki pages. They can only be +inlined into a blog. + +If you are already using aggregate and want to enable `aggregateinternal`, +you should follow this process: + +1. Update all [[PageSpecs|ikiwiki/PageSpec]] that refer to the aggregated + pages -- such as those in inlines. Put "internal()" around globs + in those PageSpecs. For example, if the PageSpec was "foo/*", it should + be changed to "internal(foo/*)". This has to be done because internal + pages are not matched by regular globs. +2. Use [[ikiwiki-transition]] to move all existing aggregated `.html` + files. The command to run is `ikiwiki-transition aggregateinternal $srcdir` +3. Turn on `aggregateinternal` in the setup file and rebuild the wiki. |