doc/todo/plugin.mdwn



Suggestions of ideas for plugins:


list of registered users - tricky because it sorta calls for a way to rebuild the page when a new user is registered. Might be better as a cgi?


[[sigs]] ?


Support [[RecentChanges]] as a regular page containing a plugin that
updates each time there is a change, and statically builds the recent
changes list. (Would this be too expensive/inflexible? There might be
other ways to do it as a plugin, like making all links to RecentChanges
link to the cgi and have the cgi render it on demand.)
Or using an iframe
to inline the cgi, although firefox seems to render that nastily with
nested scroll bars. :-(


For PlaceWiki I want to be able to do some custom plugins, including one
that links together subpages about the same place created by different
users. This seems to call for a plugin that applies to every page w/o any
specific marker being used, and pre-or-post-processes the full page
content. It also needs to update pages when related pages are added,
so it needs to register dependencies pre-emptively between pages,
or something. It's possible that this is a special case of backlinks and
is best implemented by making backlinks a plugin somehow. --[[Joey]]


interwiki links


random page (cgi plugin; how to link to it easily?)


All the kinds of plugins that blogging software has is also a possibility:


Blog post calendar


How about an event calendar. Events could be sub-pages with an embedded
code to detail recurrance and/or event date/time


Vote taking plugin. It would need to store its data in a file in .ikiwiki/