-[[meta title="Installing third party plugins"]]
+[[!meta title="Installing third party plugins"]]
Most ikiwiki 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
`/usr/local/lib/site_perl` for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki
plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin`
-You can use the `libdir` configuration option to add a directory to the
+You can use the `libdirs` and/or `libdir` configuration options to add
+directories to the
search path. For example, if you set `libdir` to `/home/you/.ikiwiki/`,
-then ikiwiki will look for plugins in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugins`.
+then ikiwiki will look for plugins in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin`.
Ikiwiki also supports plugins that are external programs. These are
typically written in some other language than perl. Ikiwiki searches for
-these in `/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins` by default. If `libdir` is set, it will
-also look under that directory, for example in `/home/you/.ikiwiki/plugins`.
+these in `/usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins` by default. If `libdirs` or `libdir` are
+set, it will also look under those directories, for example in
+`/home/you/.ikiwiki/plugins`.
Note that this type of plugin has to be executable for ikiwiki to use it.