X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/831190e1f356a6e1b7b872786e6d07f9c747ea33..8b19dea41debcd55fb4d76083470f269f4317f62:/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn index 6053905b2..d224516df 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn @@ -1,14 +1,19 @@ -This plugin allows content from other blogs to be aggregated into the wiki. -Aggregate a blog as follows: +[[template id=plugin name=aggregate author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[tag type/useful]] + +This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the wiki. +Aggregate a feed 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 +That example aggregates posts from the specified RSS feed, updating no more frequently than once every 15 minutes, and puts a page per post under the example/ directory in the wiki. -You can then use ikiwiki's [[blog]] support to create a blog of one or more -aggregated feeds. +You can then use ikiwiki's [[ikiwiki/blog]] support to create a blog of one or +more aggregated feeds. ## setup @@ -30,7 +35,7 @@ directive: * `name` - A name for the feed. Each feed must have a unique name. Required. -* `url` - The url to the web page for the blog that's being aggregated. +* `url` - The url to the web page for the feed that's being aggregated. Required. * `dir` - The directory in the wiki where pages should be saved. Optional, if not specified, the directory is based on the name of the feed. @@ -38,19 +43,15 @@ directive: will look for feeds on the `url`. RSS and atom feeds are supported. * `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 +* `expireage` - Expire old items from this feed if they are older than a specified number of days. Default is to never expire on age. -* `expirecount` - Expire old items from this blog if there are more than +* `expirecount` - Expire old items from this feed if there are more than the specified number total. Oldest items will be expired first. Default is to never expire on count. -* `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 +* `tag` - A tag to tag each post from the feed with. A good tag to use is + the name of the feed. Can be repeated multiple times. The [[tag]] plugin must be enabled for this to work. 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]]