1 Contributed [[plugins]]:
3 [[inline pages="plugins/contrib/* !*/Discussion"
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7 # Installing third party plugins
9 Most ikiwiki plugins are perl modules and should be installed somewhere in
10 the perl module search path. See the @INC list at the end of the output of
11 `perl -V` for a list of the directories in that path. All plugins are in
12 the IkiWiki::Plugin namespace, so they go in a IkiWiki/Plugin subdirectory
13 inside the perl search path. For example, if your perl looks in
14 `/usr/local/lib/site_perl` for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki
15 plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin`
17 You can use the `libdir` configuration option to add a directory to the
18 search path. For example, if you set `libdir` to `/home/you/.ikiwiki/`,
19 then ikiwiki will look for plugins in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugins`.
21 Ikiwiki also supports plugins that are external programs. These are
22 typically written in some other language than perl. Ikiwiki searches for
23 these in /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins by default. If `libdir` is set, it will
24 also look in that directory, for example in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/plugins`.