1 The `calendar` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/calendar desc=calendar]] plugin.
3 This directive displays a calendar, similar to the typical calendars shown on
10 \[[!calendar type="month" pages="blog/* and !*/Discussion"]]
12 \[[!calendar type="year" year="2005" pages="blog/* and !*/Discussion"]]
16 The calendar is essentially a fancy front end to archives of previous
17 pages, usually used for blogs. It can produce a calendar for a given month,
18 or a list of months for a given year. The month format calendar simply
19 links to any page posted on each day of the month. The year format calendar
20 links to archive pages, with names like `archives/2007` (for all of 2007)
21 and `archives/2007/01` (for January, 2007).
23 While you can insert calendar directives anywhere on your wiki, including
24 in the sidebar, you'll also need to create these archive pages. They
25 typically use this directive to display a calendar, and also use [[inline]]
26 to display or list pages created in the given time frame.
28 ## Generating archive pages
30 If [[!iki plugins/calendar desc=option]] `calendar_autocreate` is not set, the
31 [[!iki ikiwiki-calendar]] command can be used to automatically generate the archive
32 pages. It also refreshes the wiki, updating the calendars to highlight the
33 current day. This command is typically run at midnight from cron.
37 0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup "posts/* and !*/Discussion"
40 With [[!iki plugins/calendar desc="setup option"]] `calendar_autocreate`,
41 all this work is done by `ikiwiki` itself. Thus, the crontab command can be
44 0 0 * * * ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --refresh
48 * `type` - Used to specify the type of calendar wanted. Can be one of
49 "month" or "year". The default is a month view calendar.
50 * `pages` - Specifies the [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages to link to from the
51 month calendar. Defaults to "*".
52 * `archivebase` - Configures the base of the archives hierarchy.
53 The default is "archives". Note that this default can also be overridden
54 for the whole wiki by setting `archivebase` in ikiwiki's setup file.
55 Calendars link to pages under here, with names like "2010/04" and
56 "2010". These pages can be automatically created using the
57 `calendar_autocreate` [[!iki plugins/calendar desc="setup option"]].
58 * `year` - The year for which the calendar is requested. Defaults to the
59 current year. Can also use -1 to refer to last year, and so on.
60 * `month` - The numeric month for which the calendar is requested, in the
61 range 1..12. Used only for the month view calendar, and defaults to the
62 current month. Can also use -1 to refer to last month, and so on.
63 * `week_start_day` - A number, in the range 0..6, which represents the day
64 of the week that the month calendar starts with. 0 is Sunday, 1 is Monday,
65 and so on. Defaults to 0, which is Sunday.
66 * `months_per_row` - In the year calendar, number of months to place in
67 each row. Defaults to 3.
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