+[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
[[!if test="enabled(template)"
then="This wiki has templates **enabled**."
else="This wiki has templates **disabled**."
## Creating a template
-To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and page will
-provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template is a
-regular wiki (.mdwn) page, **located in the `templates/` directory** under source control. Nothing to do with **templatedir** from your ikiwiki configuration.
+To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and the
+page will provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template
+is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside
+the source directory of the wiki.
The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl
module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its
documentation for the full syntax, but all you really need to know are a
few things:
+* Each parameter you pass to the template directive will generate a
+ template variable. There are also some pre-defined variables like PAGE
+ and BASENAME.
* To insert the value of a variable, use `<TMPL_VAR variable>`. Wiki markup
in the value will first be converted to html.
* To insert the raw value of a variable, with wiki markup not yet converted