If you prefer to use some other markup language, ikiwiki allows others to
easily be added by [[plugins]]. For example it also supports traditional
[[plugins/WikiText]] formatted pages, pages written as pure
-[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]].
+[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]]
+or [[Textile|plugins/textile]].
ikiwiki also supports files of any other type, including plain text,
images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied
You can turn any page in the wiki into a [[blog]]. Pages matching a
specified [[PageSpec]] will be displayed as a weblog within the blog
-page. And an RSS feed can be generated to follow the blog.
+page. And RSS or Atom feeds can be generated to follow the blog.
Ikiwiki's own [[TODO]], [[news]], and [[plugins]] pages are good examples
-of some of the flexible ways that this can be used.
+of some of the flexible ways that this can be used. There is also an
+[[example_blog|examples/blog]] set up that you can copy into your own wiki.
Ikiwiki can also [[plugins/aggregate]] external blogs, feeding them into
the wiki. This can be used to create a Planet type site that aggregates
interesting feeds.
+You can also mix blogging with podcasting by dropping audio files where
+they will be picked up like blog posts. This will work for any files that
+you would care to syndicate.
+
## Valid html and [[css]]
ikiwiki aims to produce
You can tag pages and use these tags in various ways. Tags will show
up in the ways you'd expect, like at the bottom of pages, in blogs, and
-in rss feeds.
+in RSS and Atom feeds.
### [[SubPages|SubPage]]
### User registration
Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to post
-pages; online user registration form, etc.
+pages.
+
+User registration can be done using a web form, or ikiwiki can be
+configured to accept users authenticated with OpenID, or HTTP basic
+authentication, or other methods implemented via plugins.
### Discussion pages