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diff --git a/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn b/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn index 6c50fa3..9e3ae54 100644 --- a/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn +++ b/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn @@ -34,11 +34,15 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template: The template is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside the source directory of the wiki. -(Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki, +Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki, as files with the extension ".tmpl". -By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`; +By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched -first.) +first. When referring to templates outside the wiki source directory, the "id" +parameter is not interpreted as a pagespec, and you must include the full filename +of the template page, including the ".tmpl" extension. E.g.: + + \[[!template id=blogpost.tmpl]] The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its |