-ikiwiki uses the HTML::Template module as its template engine. This supports things like conditionals and loops in templates and is pretty easy to learn.
+[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
+[[!if test="enabled(template)"
+then="This wiki has templates **enabled**."
+else="This wiki has templates **disabled**."
+]]
-It ships with some basic templates which can be customised:
+Templates are files that can be filled out and inserted into pages in the
+wiki.
-* `templates/page.tmpl` - Used for displaying all regular wiki pages.
-* `templates/recentchanges.tmpl` - Used for the RecentChanges page.
-* `templates/edit.tmpl' - Edit page.
-* `templates/create.tmpl' - Creating a new page.
-* `templates/signin.tmpl` - Used for the SignIn form and all assciated forms, if it exists.
-
- Note that the SignIn form is implemented using CGI::FormBuilder, which interfaces to HTML::Template, so not all of it can be customised with templates, although most of it can, by creating this template. Without the template, CGI::FormBuilder creates the page by itself.
+[[!if test="enabled(template) and enabled(inline)" then="""
-I aim to keep almost all html out of ikiwiki and in the templates.
+These templates are available for use with the template directive.
+
+[[!inline pages="templates/* and !*/discussion" feeds=no archive=yes
+sort=title template=titlepage
+rootpage=templates postformtext="Add a new template named:"]]
+"""]]