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[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / plugins / write.mdwn

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@@ -467,6 +467,15 @@ When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too.
 Note that page state does not persist across wiki rebuilds, only across
 wiki updates.
 
+### %wikistate
+
+The `%wikistate` hash can be used by a plugin to store persistant state
+that is not bound to any one page. To set a value, use
+`$wikistate{$id}{$key}=$value, where `$value` is anything Storable can
+serialize, `$key` is any string you like, and `$id` must be the same as the
+"id" parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin, so that the
+state can be dropped if the plugin is no longer used.
+
 ### Other variables
 
 If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can
@@ -682,6 +691,12 @@ destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
 If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be
 constructed instead of the default relative url.
 
+#### `newpagefile($$)`
+
+This can be called when creating a new page, to determine what filename
+to save the page to. It's passed a page name, and its type, and returns
+the name of the file to create, relative to the srcdir.
+
 #### `targetpage($$)`
 
 Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be