doc/tips.mdwn



This page is a place to document tips and techniques for using ikiwiki.
wikiannounce
One thing I use ikiwiki for is the web pages for software projects I
maintain. Each of my projects has a news page with an announcements feed,
and to automatically update this when I release a new version, generating
an announcement from the debian/changelog and debian/NEWS files, I use a
wikiannounce program. It's
somewhat specific to dealing with Debian packages, and uses a special
announcedir target in debian/rules, but the general idea could be useful.
--[[Joey]]
blog script
I should mention that I also have a
blog program that I use to
write blog posts in a text editor. The first line I enter is used as the
title, and it automatically comes up with a unique page name based on the
title and handles all the details of posting to my blog. --[[Joey]]
using the web interface with a real text editor
If you use Firefox or Iceweasel, the It's All
Text extension allows
you to use a real text editor like Emacs or Vim to edit the contents of text
areas.  This allows you to edit ikiwiki pages with a real text editor through
the ikiwiki web interface, rather than only with direct commit
access. --[[JoshTriplett]]
using ikiwiki as an issue tracker
[[This_article|issue_tracking]] has some thoughts and tips on using ikiwiki
as a BTS, as is done on this very wiki to track [[bugs]] and [[todo]] items
for ikiwiki.