-[[if test="enabled(template)"
+[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
+[[!if test="enabled(template)"
then="This wiki has templates **enabled**."
else="This wiki has templates **disabled**."
]]
Templates are files that can be filled out and inserted into pages in the
wiki.
-[[if test="enabled(template) and enabled(inline)" then="""
+[[!if test="enabled(template) and enabled(inline)" then="""
## Available templates
These templates are available for inclusion onto other pages in this
wiki:
-[[inline pages="templates/* and !*/discussion" feeds=no archive=yes
+[[!inline pages="templates/* and !*/discussion" feeds=no archive=yes
sort=title template=titlepage]]
"""]]
Using a template works like this:
- \[[template id=note text="""Here is the text to insert into my note."""]]
+ \[[!template id=note text="""Here is the text to insert into my note."""]]
This fills out the [[note]] template, filling in the `text` field with
the specified value, and inserts the result into the page.
be included in it. Combined with multi-line quoted values, this allows for
large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template:
- \[[template id=foo name="Sally" color="green" age=8 notes="""
+ \[[!template id=foo name="Sally" color="green" age=8 notes="""
* \[[Charley]]'s sister.
* "I want to be an astronaut when I grow up."
* Really 8 and a half.
## Creating a template
-To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and page will
-provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template is a
-regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` directory.
+To create a template, simply add a template directive to a page, and the
+page will provide a link that can be used to create the template. The template
+is a regular wiki page, located in the `templates/` subdirectory inside
+the source directory of the wiki.
-The template uses the syntax used by the [[cpan HTML::Template]] perl
+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
few things: