X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/1d0f4b665cc6244573a4cdca4a010ece5595066e..caaa5bad8925a26cea1a3b07b655c25d7d770dc4:/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn index 85152170f..031eb03f4 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,12 @@ +[[template id=plugin name=aggregate included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[tag type/useful]] + This plugin allows content from other blogs to be aggregated into the wiki. Aggregate a blog as follows: - \[[aggregate name="example blog" feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss" url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15"] + \[[aggregate name="example blog" + feedurl="http://example.com/index.rss" + url="http://example.com/" updateinterval="15"]] That example aggregates posts from the expecified RSS feed, updating no more frequently than once every 15 minutes, and puts a page per post under @@ -13,7 +18,9 @@ aggregated feeds. ## setup Make sure that you have the [[html]] plugin enabled, as the created pages are -in html format. The [[tag]] plugin is also recommended. +in html format. The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. The +[[htmltidy]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily contain html +problems, some of which tidy can fix. You will need to run ikiwiki periodically from a cron job, passing it the --aggregate parameter, to make it check for new posts. Here's an example @@ -37,10 +44,11 @@ directive: * `updateinterval` - How often to check for new posts, in minutes. Default is 15 minutes. * `expireage` - Expire old items from this blog if they are older than - a specified number of days. Default is to never expire on age. + a specified number of days. Default is to never expire on age. (Not yet + implemented.) * `expirecount` - Expire old items from this blog if there are more than the specified number total. Oldest items will be expired first. Default - is to never expire on count. + is to never expire on count. (Not yet implemented.) * `tag` - A tag to tag each post from the blog with. A good tag to use is the name of the blog. Can be repeated multiple times. The [[tag]] plugin must be enabled for this to work. @@ -48,7 +56,3 @@ directive: Note that even if you are using subversion or another revision control system, pages created by aggregation will *not* be checked into revision control. - -This plugin is not enabled by default. - -[[tag type/useful]]