This allows for plugins to perform their own processing of command-line
options and so add options to the ikiwiki command line. It's called during
-command line processing, with @ARGV full of any options that ikiwiki was
+command line processing, with `@ARGV` full of any options that ikiwiki was
not able to process on its own. The function should process any options it
-can, removing them from @ARGV, and probably recording the configuration
-settings in %config. It should take care not to abort if it sees
+can, removing them from `@ARGV`, and probably recording the configuration
+settings in `%config`. It should take care not to abort if it sees
an option it cannot process, and should just skip over those options and
-leave them in @ARGV.
+leave them in `@ARGV`.
### checkconfig
hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "foo", call => \&checkconfig);
This is useful if the plugin needs to check for or modify ikiwiki's
-configuration. It's called early in the startup process. The
-function is passed no values. It's ok for the function to call
+configuration. It's called early in the startup process. `%config`
+is populated at this point, but other state has not yet been loaded.
+The function is passed no values. It's ok for the function to call
`error()` if something isn't configured right.
### refresh
describes the plugin as a whole. For example:
return
+ plugin => {
+ description => "description of this plugin",
+ safe => 1,
+ rebuild => 1,
+ section => "misc",
+ },
option_foo => {
type => "boolean",
description => "enable foo?",
safe => 1,
rebuild => 0,
},
- plugin => {
- description => "description of this plugin",
- safe => 1,
- rebuild => 1,
- },
* `type` can be "boolean", "string", "integer", "pagespec",
or "internal" (used for values that are not user-visible). The type is
the plugin) will require a wiki rebuild, false if no rebuild is needed,
and undef if a rebuild could be needed in some circumstances, but is not
strictly required.
+* `section` can optionally specify which section in the config file
+ the plugin fits in.
### genwrapper
* anchor - set to make the link include an anchor
* rel - set to add a rel attribute to the link
* class - set to add a css class to the link
+* title - set to add a title attribute to the link
#### `readfile($;$)`