Most of ikiwiki's [[features]] are implemented as plugins. Beyond the
[[type/core]] features, there are plugins to [[type/format]] text,
use [[type/tags]], show [[type/meta]] information, add [[type/auth]]
methods, do other [[type/useful]] stuff, add [[type/chrome]] to the
wiki, or just have [[type/fun]].
There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can
install and use plugins contributed by others.
The [[mdwn]], [[inline]], [[htmlscrubber]], and [[passwordauth]] plugins
are enabled by default. To enable other plugins, use the --plugin switch
described in [[usage]], or the equivalent add_plugins line in
[[ikiwiki.setup]].
Plugin directory
Add all plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page.
[[inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and !plugins/contrib and !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib"]]
Installing third party plugins
Plugins are perl modules and should be installed somewhere in the perl
module search path. See the @INC list at the end of the output of perl -V
for a list of the directories in that path. All plugins are in the
IkiWiki::Plugin namespace, so they go in a IkiWiki/Plugin subdirectory
inside the perl search path. For example, if your perl looks in
/usr/local/lib/site_perl for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki
plugins to /usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin
