X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/95274e6bd60acbdc9dbd7be31d50b98e7ba1727a..12eb056b33e1f01a63c4fcee408c9ac0d96c6b5e:/doc/plugins.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins.mdwn b/doc/plugins.mdwn index ae9c6300a..527568208 100644 --- a/doc/plugins.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins.mdwn @@ -1,27 +1,19 @@ -Plugins can be used to add additional features to ikiwiki. It's possible to -[[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by -others. +Most of ikiwiki's [[features]] are implemented as plugins. Many of these +plugins are included with ikiwiki. -The ikiiki package includes some standard plugins that are installed and -by default. These include [[inline]], [[pagecount]], and [[brokenlinks]]. -Of these, [[inline]] is enabled by default. +[[!pagestats pages="plugins/type/* and !plugins/type/slow"]] -To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]], or the equivilant line in -[[ikiwiki.setup]]. - -## Third party plugins - -Plugins are perl modules and should be installed somewhere in the perl -module search path. See the @INC list at the end of the output of `perl -V` -for a list of the directories in that path. All plugins are in the -IkiWiki::Plugin namespace, so they go in a IkiWiki/Plugin subdirectory -inside the perl search path. For example, if your perl looks in -`/usr/local/lib/site_perl` for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki -plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin` +There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can +[[install]] plugins [[contributed|contrib]] by others. +To enable a plugin, use the `--plugin` switch described in +[[usage]], or the equivalent `add_plugins` line in ikiwiki.setup. +Enable the [[goodstuff]] plugin to get a nice selection of plugins that +will fit most uses of ikiwiki. ## Plugin directory -Add your contributed plugins here. - -[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="30"]] +[[!inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and +!plugins/write/* and !plugins/contrib and !plugins/install and !*/Discussion" +feedpages="created_after(plugins/graphviz)" archive="yes" sort=title +rootpage="plugins/contrib" postformtext="Add a new plugin named:" show=0]]