be created inside its `srcdir`, beneath the `archivebase`
directory used by the calendar plugin (default "archives").
-You will probably want to specify a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]
-to control which pages are included on the calendars. The
-default is all pages. To limit it to only posts in a blog,
+To control which pages are included on the calendars,
+a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] can be specified. The default is
+all pages, or the pages specified by the `comments_pagespec`
+setting in the config file. A pagespec can also be specified
+on the command line. To limit it to only posts in a blog,
use something like "posts/* and !*/Discussion".
It defaults to creating calendar pages for the current
Existing pages will not be overwritten by this command by default.
Use the `-f` switch to force it to overwrite any existing pages.
-## CRONTAB
+# CRONTAB
While this command only needs to be run once a year to update
the archive pages for each new year, you are recommended to set up
An example crontab:
- 0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup "posts/* and !*/Discussion"
+ 0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup 'posts/* and !*/Discussion'
# TEMPLATES
-This command uses two [[template|wikitemplates]] to generate
+This command uses two [[templates]] to generate
the pages, `calendarmonth.tmpl` and `calendaryear.tmpl`.
+# [[plugins/calendar]] setup option
+
+Most of the goals of this command can be replaced by setting up
+`calendar_autocreate` setup option (of plugin [[plugins/calendar]]), and
+running `ikiwiki -setup you.setup`. The only thing that `ikiwiki-calendar` can
+do and that `ikiwiki` cannot is forcing page generation (using `-f` switch).
+
# AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>