[[!if test="enabled(template) and enabled(inline)" then="""
-## Available templates
-
These templates are available for inclusion onto other pages in this
wiki:
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,
+as files with the extension ".tmpl".
+By default, these are searched for in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`;
+the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be searched
+first.)
+
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
documentation for the full syntax, but all you really need to know are a
Here's a sample template:
<span class="infobox">
- Name: [[<TMPL_VAR raw_name>]]<br />
+ Name: \[[<TMPL_VAR raw_name>]]<br />
Age: <TMPL_VAR age><br />
<TMPL_IF NAME="color">
Favorite color: <TMPL_VAR color><br />
markup in the template. Note though that such WikiLinks will not show up as
backlinks to the page that uses the template.
-Note the use of "raw_name" inside the [[WikiLink]] generator. This ensures
-that if the name contains something that might be mistaken for wiki markup,
-it's not converted to html before being processed as a [[WikiLink]].
+Note the use of "raw_name" inside the [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]] generator. This
+ensures that if the name contains something that might be mistaken for wiki
+markup, it's not converted to html before being processed as a
+[[ikiwiki/WikiLink]].