-*For discussion and the branch please see [[todo/transient pages]]. If this
-plugin is merged, this page can be renamed to act as its documentation. --[[smcv]]*
-
-[[!template id=plugin name=transient author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]]
+[[!template id=plugin name=transient author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]" core=yes]]
[[!tag type/special-purpose]]
The `transient` plugin adds an underlay in `.ikiwiki/transient`, which is
This plugin is mostly useful as something that other plugins can depend on:
-* [[plugins/contrib/album]] always writes photo-album "viewer" pages to the
- transient underlay
-
-Likely future users of this plugin (the appropriate branches need to be
-merged first):
-
-* with a patch (which exists but hasn't yet been tested), [[plugins/aggregate]]
- always writes aggregated posts into the transient underlay
-* with a patch, [[plugins/autoindex]] can be configured to auto-create missing
+* [[plugins/aggregate]] writes aggregated posts into the transient underlay
+* [[plugins/autoindex]] can be configured to auto-create missing
pages that have a [[ikiwiki/subpage]] or an [[plugins/attachment]], but not
commit them, in which case they go in the transient underlay
* [[plugins/comments]] can be configured to not commit comments: if so, it
- should probably put them in the transient underlay
-* with a patch, [[plugins/recentchanges]] always writes new changes into the
- transient underlay
-* with a patch, [[plugins/tag]] can be configured to auto-create missing
+ puts them in the transient underlay
+* [[plugins/recentchanges]] writes new changes into the transient underlay
+* [[plugins/tag]] can be configured to auto-create missing
tag pages but not commit them, in which case they go in the transient
underlay