-Plugins can be used to add additional features to ikiwiki. The interface is quite flexible, allowing plugins to register [[PreProcessorDirective]]s, hook into [[CGI]] mode, and more. Ikiwiki's backend RCS support is also pluggable, so support for new revision control systems can be added to ikiwiki.
+There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can
+install and use plugins contributed by others.
-There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by others.
-
-The ikiwiki package includes some standard plugins that are installed and
-by default. These include [[inline]], [[pagecount]], and [[brokenlinks]].
-Of these, [[inline]] is enabled by default.
+The [[inline]] and [[htmlscrubber]] plugins are enabled by default.
To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]],
or the equivalent line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
-## Plugin directory
+# Plugin directory
-Add your contributed plugins here.
+Add all plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page.
-[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="30"]]
+[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="60"]]
-## Installing third party plugins
+# Installing third party plugins
Plugins are perl modules and should be installed somewhere in the perl
module search path. See the @INC list at the end of the output of `perl -V`