X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4e54fa1144065b7ff99e88e6c61ff1fdcf6175c9..efe05d18ae5633d7a186d2cb97377b6e08ea8f4e:/doc/plugins/write.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn index dcab041dc..4c66e51f8 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -lkiwiki's plugin interface allows all kinds of useful [[plugins]] to be +Ikiwiki's plugin interface allows all kinds of useful [[plugins]] to be written to extend ikiwiki in many ways. Despite the length of this page, it's not really hard. This page is a complete reference to everything a plugin might want to do. There is also a quick [[tutorial]]. @@ -356,21 +356,48 @@ when the page is being previewed.) The function is passed named parameters: "page" and "content", and should return the formatted content. +### build_affected + + hook(type => "build_affected", id => "foo", call => \&build_affected); + +This hook is called after the directly changed pages have been built, +and can cause extra pages to be built. If links and backlinks were provided +by a plugin, this would be where that plugin would rebuild pages whose +backlinks have changed, for instance. The [[trail]] plugin uses this hook +to rebuild pages whose next or previous page has changed. + +The function should currently ignore its parameters. It returns a list with +an even number of items (a hash in list context), where the first item of +each pair is a page name to be rebuilt (if it was not already rebuilt), and +the second is a log message resembling +`building plugins/write because the phase of the moon has changed`. + ### delete hook(type => "delete", id => "foo", call => \&delete); -Each time a page or pages is removed from the wiki, the referenced function +After a page or pages is removed from the wiki, the referenced function is called, and passed the names of the source files that were removed. -### change +### rendered - hook(type => "change", id => "foo", call => \&render); + hook(type => "rendered", id => "foo", call => \&rendered); -Each time ikiwiki renders a change or addition (but not deletion) to the +After ikiwiki renders a change or addition (but not deletion) to the wiki, the referenced function is called, and passed the names of the source files that were rendered. +(This hook used to be called "change", but that was not accurate. +For now, plugins using the old hook name will still work.) + +### changes + + hook(type => "changes", id => "foo", call => \&changes); + +After ikiwiki renders changes to the wiki, the referenced function is +called, and passed the names of the source files that were added, modified, +or deleted. + ### cgi hook(type => "cgi", id => "foo", call => \&cgi);