The plugin somehow depends on [[mdwn]]. If you have disabled [[mdwn]], to get [[shortcut]] work, you need commit in a shortcuts.ext (ext is `rcs|creole|html|txt|etc`). Then edit the following lines in [[shortcut]] plugin source: my $srcfile=srcfile("shortcuts.mdwn", 1); and error(gettext("shortcut plugin will not work without a shortcuts.mdwn")); (It is better to edit a local copy of shortcut.pm in, say, ~/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin and add ~/.ikiwiki to libdir in your ikiwiki.setup than edit the shortcut.pm installed in system directly.)