doc/todo/Overlay_directory_for_pagetemplates.mdwn



I am aware of the [[pagetemplate|/plugins/pagetemplate]] plugin, but I'd like to style my pages completely differently. Modifications in /usr/share/ikiwiki are not an option, and I'd rather not snapshot that directory and make my changes to the detached copy.
Instead, I wonder whether it would be possible to create an overlay directory such that ikiwiki first looks for page templates there, and only goes to /usr/share/ikiwiki if the overlay does not satisfy the request.

[[madduck]]: Update: I did try setting templates in ikiwiki.setup but could not get it to work. Then I found in the code that ikiwiki already checks that dir before the /usr/share/ikiwiki one, and tried it again, and now it works... sorry.
Thus [[taglink done]].