-There's documentation if you want 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 ikiwiki package includes some standard plugins that are installed and
-by default. These include [[inline]], [[pagecount]], and [[brokenlinks]], and [[search]]. 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.
+The [[mdwn]], [[inline]], and [[htmlscrubber]] plugins are enabled by default.
To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]],
-or the equivalent line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
+or the equivalent `add_plugins` line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
-## Plugin directory
+# Plugin directory
-Add your contributed plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page.
+Add all plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page.
-[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="30"]]
+[[inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and !plugins/contrib and !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib"]]
-## Installing third party plugins
+# 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`