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diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn index 71d8b3680..61743a816 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]] -[[tag type/useful]] +[[!template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[!tag type/useful]] This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the wiki. Aggregate a feed as follows: - \[[aggregate name="example blog" dir="example" + \[[!aggregate name="example blog" dir="example" feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss" url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15"]] @@ -15,12 +15,15 @@ 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. For example: - \[[inline pages="internal(example/*)"]] + \[[!inline pages="internal(example/*)"]] ## setup -Make sure that you have the [[html]] plugin enabled, as the created pages are -in html format. The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. The +New users of aggregate should enable the `aggregateinternal => 1` option in the +.setup file. If you don't do so, you will need to enable the [[html]] plugin +as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as HTML. + +The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. The [[htmltidy]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily contain html problems, some of which tidy can fix. @@ -68,33 +71,37 @@ 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 +## internal pages and `aggregateinternal` 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. +If the `aggregateinternal` option is enabled in the setup file (which is +recommended), aggregated pages are stored in the source directory with a +"._aggregated" extension. These pages cannot be edited by web users, and +do not generate first-class wiki pages. They can still be inlined into a +blog, but you have to use `internal` in [[PageSpecs|IkiWiki/PageSpec]], +like `internal(blog/*)`. -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. +For backward compatibility, the default is that these pages have the +".html" extension, and are first-class wiki pages -- each one generates +a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited. -If `aggregateinternal` is enabled, aggregated pages are stored in the source -directory with a "._aggregated" extension. These pages cannot be edited by -web users, and do not generate first-class wiki pages. They can still be -inlined into a blog. +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 alternative +method that can be used (and is recommended), turned on by the +`aggregateinternal` option in the setup file. 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 + 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` + files. The command to run is `ikiwiki-transition aggregateinternal $srcdir`, + or if you have changed the `htmlext` option to something other than "html", + `ikiwiki-transition aggregateinternal $srcdir $htmlext` 3. Turn on `aggregateinternal` in the setup file and rebuild the wiki. |