expand on using templates outside the wiki source directory

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / ikiwiki / directive / template.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn
index 6c50fa32e45e370af28c94c0a027633aa9accc21..9e3ae54dfd6209c92528ace49ad5ae2b3279d486 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/template.mdwn
@@ -34,11 +34,15 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template:
 The template is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/`
 subdirectory inside the source directory of the wiki.
 
 The template is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/`
 subdirectory inside the source directory of the wiki.
 

-(Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki,
+Alternatively, templates can be stored in a directory outside the wiki,

 as files with the extension ".tmpl".
 as files with the extension ".tmpl".

-By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`;
+By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`,

 the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched
 the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched

-first.)
+first.  When referring to templates outside the wiki source directory, the "id"
+parameter is not interpreted as a pagespec, and you must include the full filename
+of the template page, including the ".tmpl" extension. E.g.:
+
+    \[[!template id=blogpost.tmpl]]

 
 The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl
 module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its
 
 The template uses the syntax used by the [[!cpan HTML::Template]] perl
 module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its