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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/templates.mdwn | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/wikitemplates.mdwn | 6 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/templates.mdwn b/doc/templates.mdwn index eff0e15e9..07531ae98 100644 --- a/doc/templates.mdwn +++ b/doc/templates.mdwn @@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ page will provide a link that can be used to create the 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, +as files with the extension ".tmpl". +By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`; +the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched +first.) + 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 documentation for the full syntax, but all you really need to know are a diff --git a/doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn b/doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn index 880ad6493..1d72aa6a7 100644 --- a/doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/user-defined_templates_outside_the_wiki.mdwn @@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ source, but also looks in the system templates directory (the one with invoked via `\[[!template]]`, but don't have to "work" as wiki pages in their own right. I think the normal [[plugins/template]] plugin could benefit from this functionality. + +[[done]] --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/wikitemplates.mdwn b/doc/wikitemplates.mdwn index 6c0480cea..6e5a7261d 100644 --- a/doc/wikitemplates.mdwn +++ b/doc/wikitemplates.mdwn @@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ to learn. The aim is to keep almost all html out of ikiwiki and in the templates. It ships with some basic templates which can be customised. These are -located in /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates by default. +located in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates` by default; the `templatedir` +setting can be used to make another directory be searched first. * `page.tmpl` - Used for displaying all regular wiki pages. * `misc.tmpl` - Generic template used for any page that doesn't @@ -43,7 +44,8 @@ The [[plugins/pagetemplate]] plugin can allow individual pages to use a different template than `page.tmpl`. The [[plugins/template]] plugin also uses templates, though those -[[templates]] are stored in the wiki and inserted into pages. +[[templates]] are typically stored as pages in the wiki, and are inserted +into pages. The [[plugins/edittemplate]] plugin is used to make new pages default to containing text from a template, which can be filled as out the page is |