>>> Seems like a job for good ol' string interpolation. rootpage="post/$current_year/$current_month/$current_day"
>>> Ikiwiki could provide some vars, and it would be nice to write plugins to also provide vars. Sort of like templates.
>>> Does that feel OK? --[[sabr]]
+
+> I want the exact same thing. My compromise was to create a `datedblog` module which overrides `inline`'s `sessioncgi` hook
+> with something that sets the new page name to `%Y-%m-%d.$page` and sets up a meta directive at the beginning of
+> the content, with the title you wanted. Now if you use the `datedblog` module, you get dated blog entries. But I'd
+> like to have traditional `inline` functionality too. This would work great if there were a way to change the `do`
+> parameter in the `blogpost` template's form; if I could change it to `datedblog` instead of `blog` then I could hook
+> my datedblog module in nicely, without having to override anything. What would be the right way to do that? --[[neale]]
+
+> This is basically the same request as
+> [[todo/inline_postform_autotitles]]. --[[smcv]]