-I was wondering what the best way to customise the templates is.
+This confuses me enormously. Perhaps because I am new to ikiwiki, to perl, to Linux, etc.
-Would it be best to copy them all into the wiki under version control or have them seperate?
+note and popups are templates? But they're not in the templates directory, and in my readings here, templates are supposed to be in the ../templates directory.
-Thanks
+> Ikiwiki has an basewiki underlay that provides wiki files not included in
+> your personal wiki sources. The note and popup template pages are
+> installed there, typically in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/templates/`
+> --[[Joey]]
-john
+> > And how am I able to use e.g. links? It's not listed in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/templates`.
+> > I intend do (mis)use links for a horizontal navigation. Or may I be better off altering page.tmpl?
+> > --z3ttacht
-> Either way would work ok. From a security standpoint, keeping the templates under version control isn't entirely safe, if you have anonymous untrusted svn committers. Web commits won't be able to touch them though, so that's ok. --[[Joey]]
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+
+Is there a list of the TMPL_VAR-Variables that are defined by ikiwiki?
+
+What I'm trying to achieve is to print the URL of every page on the page itself and therefore I would need the corresponding value in the Template.
+
+Am I missing something? --[[jwalzer]]
+
+> If there isn't a suitable variable (I don't think there is a list at
+> the moment), a [[plugin|plugins/write]] to add one would be about 10
+> lines of perl - you'd just need to define a `pagetemplate` hook. --[[smcv]]
+
+----
+
+Is there a list of all the available variables somewhere, or do I just grep the source for TMPL_VAR? And is there a way to refer to a variable inside of a wiki page or does it have to be done from a template? Thanks. -- [[AdamShand]]
+
+I pulled a list of variables and posted it, its in the history for [[templates]] under my name. [[justint]]
+
+----
+
+I am trying to override `page.tmpl` by providing `templates/page.tmpl` in my `srcdir`- this works, but now `templates/page.tmpl` is created in my `destdir` as well! Is this expected? --chenz
+
+> Yes. Every file found in the wiki is treated as either a page (passed through the whole
+> rendering pipeline to HTML) or an attachment (copied as-is). --[[smcv]]
+
+Is there a way to avoid this? --chenz
+
+> With the page in your wiki's git repository: not currently.
+> You can define a `templatedir` in your setup file and put your overridden page.tmpl
+> there instead. --s
+
+----
+
+I'm seeing some curious behaviour with `$srcdir/templates/` templates not being found when
+pushing from a remote computer. Touching the relevant file on the server and
+`ikiwiki --setup wiki.setup --refresh -v` sorts it out. I have done `--refresh
+--wrappers` just to be sure the hooks aren't out of date. Anyone knows what
+might be causing this? I'm running a custom branch of ikiwiki master from a
+couple of weeks ago so could be my own doing but my changes are mainly to the
+album and img plugins. --[[kjs]]
+
+> Seems like the issue is rather that the templates aren't found/triggered
+> when the page render is set off by dependencies rather than direct editing
+> of the page. Not the remove local issue mentioned above. --[[kjs]]
+
+>> Thanks, that was the hint I needed to be able to reproduce this bug. It seems
+>> to have been caused by an optimization: please try applying
+>> [commit 5fd863b5](http://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=5fd863b5b05449669ec56c6798d836e3302386e2)
+>> to your Render.pm. A follow-up commit partially restores the optimization,
+>> only for rebuilds. --[[smcv]]
+
+>>> I've applied both your patches and as far as I can tell it's now working
+>>> as expected. Templates get rendered even if rebuild is triggered by
+>>> comments on another page. --[[kjs]]