The aim is to keep almost all html out of ikiwiki and in the templates.
It ships with some basic templates which can be customised. These are
-located in /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates by default.
+located in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates` by default; the `templatedir`
+setting can be used to make another directory be searched first.
* `page.tmpl` - Used for displaying all regular wiki pages.
* `misc.tmpl` - Generic template used for any page that doesn't
have a custom template.
-* `recentchanges.tmpl` - Used for the RecentChanges page.
* `editpage.tmpl` - Create/edit page.
-* `notifymail.tmpl` - Not a html template, this is used to
- generate change notification mails for users who have subscribed to
- changes to a page.
+* `change.tmpl` - Used to create a page describing a change made to the wiki.
* `passwordmail.tmpl` - Not a html template, this is used to
- generate the mail with the user's password in it.
-* `rsspage.tmpl` - Used for generating rss feeds for [blogs|[ikiwiki/blog]].
+ generate a mail with an url the user can use to reset their password.
+* `rsspage.tmpl` - Used for generating rss feeds for [[blogs|blog]].
* `rssitem.tmpl` - Used for generating individual items on rss feeds.
* `atompage.tmpl` - Used for generating atom feeds for blogs.
* `atomitem.tmpl` - Used for generating individual items on atom feeds.
* `inlinepage.tmpl` - Used for adding a page inline in a blog
page.
* `archivepage.tmpl` - Used for listing a page in a blog archive page.
-* `estseek.conf` - Not a html template, this is actually a template for
- a config file for the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine. If you like you
- can read the [[HyperEstraier]] docs and configure it using this.
+* `microblog.tmpl` - Used for showing a microblogging post inline.
* `blogpost.tmpl` - Used for a form to add a post to a blog (and a rss/atom links)
* `feedlink.tmpl` - Used to add rss/atom links if blogpost.tmpl is not used.
* `aggregatepost.tmpl` - Used by the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin to create
a page for a post.
* `searchform.tmpl` - Used by the [[plugins/search]] plugin to add a search
form to wiki pages.
+* `searchquery.tmpl` - This is an omega template, used by the
+ [[plugins/search]] plugin.
+* `comment.tmpl` - This template is used to display a comment
+ by the [[plugins/comments]] plugin.
+* `editcomment.tmpl` - This template is the comment post form for the
+ [[plugins/comments]] plugin.
+* `commentmoderation.tmpl` - This template is used to produce the comment
+ moderation form.
+* `recentchanges.tmpl` - This template is used for listing a change
+ on the RecentChanges page.
The [[plugins/pagetemplate]] plugin can allow individual pages to use a
different template than `page.tmpl`.
The [[plugins/template]] plugin also uses templates, though those
-[[templates]] are stored in the wiki.
+[[templates]] are typically stored as pages in the wiki, and are inserted
+into pages.
+
+The [[plugins/edittemplate]] plugin is used to make new pages default to
+containing text from a template, which can be filled as out the page is
+edited.