X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/059a15743ac0d125b4b5da36cffcf3a646a10706..fb97d067cb4d20ffe944319caf1d45b512d3f91f:/doc/plugins/template.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn index b6083d225..4efab57e3 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn @@ -23,9 +23,13 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template: * Really 8 and a half. """]] +Some templates are included in the wiki by default; these are listed in the +[[templates]] page. + To create a template, make a page in the wiki named `template/foo`. Note that this is a different location than the directory used for the -[[templates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not part of the wiki. +[[templates|wikitemplates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not +part of the wiki. 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 @@ -38,10 +42,6 @@ few things: * To use one block of text if a variable is set and a second if it's not, use `textother text` -The filled out template will be formatted the same as the rest of the page -that contains it, so you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki -markup in the template. - Here's a sample template: @@ -57,3 +57,8 @@ Here's a sample template: + +The filled out template will be formatted the same as the rest of the page +that contains it, so you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki +markup in the template. Note though that such WikiLinks will not show up as +backlinks to the page that uses the template.