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-Plugins can be used to add additional features to ikiwiki. It's possible to
-[[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by
-others. 
+Most of ikiwiki's [[features]] are implemented as plugins. Beyond the
+[[type/core]] features, there are plugins to [[type/format]] text,
+use [[type/tags]], show [[type/meta]] information, do other [[type/useful]]
+stuff, add [[type/chrome]] to the wiki, or just have [[type/fun]].
 
-The ikiiki package includes some standard plugins that are installed and
-by default. These include [[inline]], [[pagecount]], and [[brokenlinks]].
-Of these, [[inline]] is enabled by default.
+There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can
+install and use plugins contributed by others. 
 
-To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]], or the equivilant line in
-[[ikiwiki.setup]].
+The [[mdwn]], [[inline]], and [[htmlscrubber]] plugins are enabled by default.
 
-## Plugin directory
+To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]],
+or the equivalent `add_plugins` line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
 
-Add your contributed plugins here.
+# Plugin directory
 
-[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="30"]]
+Add all plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page.
 
-## Installing third party plugins
+[[inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and !plugins/contrib and !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib"]]
+
+# Installing third party plugins
 
 Plugins are perl modules and should be installed somewhere in the perl
 module search path. See the @INC list at the end of the output of `perl -V`
@@ -23,4 +25,4 @@ for a list of the directories in that path. All plugins are in the
 IkiWiki::Plugin namespace, so they go in a IkiWiki/Plugin subdirectory
 inside the perl search path. For example, if your perl looks in
 `/usr/local/lib/site_perl` for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki
-plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin`
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+plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin`