X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/19c58ac7c139eb3509f190e9ce746bd9f6237c90..355494b78b47e9882c18150eea5a173d14fc20b5:/doc/plugins/template.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn index e7c27101e..98188d7dc 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template: 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 inside the wiki. +[[templates]] 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 @@ -53,3 +53,8 @@ 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.