[[!template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]]
-[[!tag type/useful]]
+[[!tag type/special-purpose]]
This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the
wiki. To specify feeds to aggregate, use the
[[ikiwiki/directive/aggregate]] [[ikiwiki/directive]].
-New users of aggregate should enable the `aggregateinternal => 1` option in the
-.setup file. If you don't do so, you will need to enable the [[html]] plugin
-as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as HTML.
-
The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. Either the
[[htmltidy]] or [[htmlbalance]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily
contain html problems, some of which these plugins can fix.
can visit the url to trigger an aggregation run, but it will only check
each feed if its `updateinterval` has passed.
-## internal pages and `aggregateinternal`
+## aggregated pages
This plugin creates a page for each aggregated item.
If the `aggregateinternal` option is enabled in the setup file (which is
-recommended), aggregated pages are stored in the source directory with a
+the default), aggregated pages are stored in the source directory with a
"._aggregated" extension. These pages cannot be edited by web users, and
do not generate first-class wiki pages. They can still be inlined into a
blog, but you have to use `internal` in [[PageSpecs|IkiWiki/PageSpec]],
like `internal(blog/*)`.
-For backward compatibility, the default is that these pages have the
-".html" extension, and are first-class wiki pages -- each one generates
-a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited.
-
-That turns out to not be ideal for aggregated content, because publishing
-files for each of those pages is a waste of disk space and CPU, and you
-probably don't want to allow them to be edited. So, there is an alternative
-method that can be used (and is recommended), turned on by the
-`aggregateinternal` option in the setup file.
-
-If you are already using aggregate and want to enable `aggregateinternal`,
-you should follow this process:
-
-1. Update all [[PageSpecs|ikiwiki/PageSpec]] that refer to the aggregated
- pages -- such as those in inlines. Put "internal()" around globs
- in those PageSpecs. For example, if the PageSpec was `foo/*`, it should
- be changed to `internal(foo/*)`. This has to be done because internal
- pages are not matched by regular globs.
-2. Turn on `aggregateinternal` in the setup file.
-3. Use [[ikiwiki-transition]] to rename all existing aggregated `.html`
- files in the srcdir. The command to run is
- `ikiwiki-transition aggregateinternal $setupfile`,
-4. Refresh the wiki. (`ikiwiki -setup your.setup -refresh`)
+If `aggregateinternal` is disabled, you will need to enable the [[html]]
+plugin as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as
+HTML, and as first-class wiki pages -- each one generates
+a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited. This
+option is provided only for backwards compatability.