content for new pages created using the web frontend. To register a
template, insert a [[PreprocessorDirective]] on some other page.
- \[[edittemplate template="bugtemplate" match="bugs/*"]]
-
-In the above example, the page named "bugtemplate" is registered as a
-template to be used when any page named "bugs/*" is created.
-
[[template id=note text="""
Note: It's generally not a good idea to put the `edittemplate` directive in
the template page itself, since the directive would then be included as
an arbitrary one is chosen, so that could get confusing.
"""]]
+ \[[edittemplate template="bugtemplate" match="bugs/*"]]
+
+In the above example, the page named "bugtemplate" is registered as a
+template to be used when any page named "bugs/*" is created.
+
+----
+
Often the template page contains a simple skeleton for a particular type of
page. For the bug report pages in the above example, it might look
something like: