X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7833fc9677146ef596744bdc69fb35cb6d2aa8c9..5be031b787946daaa68f20e2e4ea238cd5865fdf:/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn b/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn index be980ea2d..8bfd6a654 100644 --- a/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/plugin.mdwn @@ -1,18 +1,58 @@ -For one type of plugin, see [[todo/PluggableRenderers]]. +Suggestions of ideas for plugins: -A plugin system should ideally support things like: +* list of registered users - tricky because it sorta calls for a way to rebuild the page when a new user is registered. Might be better as a cgi? +> At best, this could only show the users who have logged in, not all +> permitted by the current auth plugin(s). HTTP auth would need +> web-server-specific code to list all users, and openid can't feasibly do so +> at all. --[[JoshTriplett]] -* [[todo/lists]] of pages, of mising pages / broken links, of registered users, etc -* a [[todo/link_map]] -* [[todo/sigs]] -* [[pageindexes]] -* Wiki stats, such as the total number of pages, total number of links, most linked to pages, etc, etc. -* etc +* It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or + "Show Diff") when editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled? + Using a plugin? -Considering ikiwiki plugins, one idea I have is to make the [[PreProcessorDirective]]s be a plugin. A setting in the config file would enable various plusins, which are perl modules, that each provide one or more preprocessor directives. +* For PlaceWiki I want to be able to do some custom plugins, including one + that links together subpages about the same place created by different + users. This seems to call for a plugin that applies to every page w/o any + specific marker being used, and pre-or-post-processes the full page + content. It also needs to update pages when related pages are added, + so it needs to register dependencies pre-emptively between pages, + or something. It's possible that this is a special case of backlinks and + is best implemented by making backlinks a plugin somehow. --[[Joey]] -Since preprocessing happens before htmlization but after a page is loaded and linkified, it should be possible to use it to create something like a link map or lists, or a page index. Page inlining and rss generation is already done via preprocessor directives and seems a natureal as a plugin too. +* random page (cgi plugin; how to link to it easily?) -Note that things like a link map or a broken link list page would need to be updated whenever a set (or all) pages change; the %inlinepages hash already allows for pages to register this, although it might need to be renamed. +* How about an event calendar. Events could be sub-pages with an embedded + code to detail recurrance and/or event date/time -I need to look at the range of things that other wikis use their plugin systems for, but preprocessor directives as plugins certianly seems useful, even if it's not a complete solution. \ No newline at end of file +* rcs plugin ([[JeremyReed]] has one he has been using for over a month with over 850 web commits with 13 users with over ten commits each.) + +* asciidoc or txt2tags format plugins + + Should be quite easy to write, the otl plugin is a good example of a + similar formatter. + +>>Isn't there a conflict between ikiwiki using \[\[ \]\] and asciidoc using the same? +>>There is a start of an asciidoc plugin at +>>-- KarlMW + +* manpage plugin: convert **"ls(1)"** style content into Markdown like **\[ls(1)\]\(http://example.org/man.cgi?name=ls§=1\)** or into HTML directly. + +> With a full installation of groff available, man offers HTML output. Might +> take some fiddling to make it fit into the ikiwiki templates, and you might +> or might not want to convert pages in the SEE ALSO as +> well. --[[JoshTriplett]] + +* As I couldn't find another place to ask, I'll try here. I would like to install some contributed plugins, but can not find anywhere to downlod them. + + > Not sure what you mean, the [[plugins/contrib]] page lists contributed plugins, and each of their pages tells where to download the plugin from.. --[[Joey]] + +* I wrote a very crude wrapper around tex4ht to render TeX files. I hesitate to give it a contrib/plugins page in its current state, but if someone wants to play, [here](http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/wiki/software/ikiwiki/tex4ht.pm) it is.--[[DavidBremner]] + +* Setting default values for the meta plugin in the setup file, particularly author, license, and copyright, would be useful +There is work in progress at +[[plugins/contrib/default_content_for___42__copyright__42___and___42__license__42__]] +-- [[DavidBremner]] + +* Would it make sense to have a hook to set the page name? This would solve a problem I see with +[[source_code_highlighting|plugins/contrib/sourcehighlight]] +-- [[DavidBremner]]