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@@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ generating the page.
 
 	hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "foo", call => \&pagetemplate);
 
-
 [[Templates|wikitemplates]] are filled out for many different things in
 ikiwiki, like generating a page, or part of a blog page, or an rss feed, or
 a cgi. This hook allows modifying the variables available on those
@@ -361,6 +360,13 @@ This hook is called whenever ikiwiki normally saves its state, just before
 the state is saved. The function can save other state, modify values before
 they're saved, etc.
 
+### displaytime
+
+	hook(type => "displaytime", id => "foo", call => \&display);
+
+This hook can be registered to override the regular `displaytime` function.
+Only the last displaytime hook will be used.
+
 ### renamepage
 
 	hook(type => "renamepage", id => "foo", call => \&renamepage);
@@ -467,6 +473,15 @@ When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too.
 Note that page state does not persist across wiki rebuilds, only across
 wiki updates.
 
+### %wikistate
+
+The `%wikistate` hash can be used by a plugin to store persistant state
+that is not bound to any one page. To set a value, use
+`$wikistate{$id}{$key}=$value, where `$value` is anything Storable can
+serialize, `$key` is any string you like, and `$id` must be the same as the
+"id" parameter passed to `hook()` when registering the plugin, so that the
+state can be dropped if the plugin is no longer used.
+
 ### Other variables
 
 If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can
@@ -682,6 +697,12 @@ destination file, as registered by `will_render`.
 If the third parameter is passed and is true, an absolute url will be
 constructed instead of the default relative url.
 
+#### `newpagefile($$)`
+
+This can be called when creating a new page, to determine what filename
+to save the page to. It's passed a page name, and its type, and returns
+the name of the file to create, relative to the srcdir.
+
 #### `targetpage($$)`
 
 Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be
@@ -832,3 +853,32 @@ to a hash containing all the config items. They should also implement a
 By the way, to parse a ikiwiki setup file and populate `%config`, a
 program just needs to do something like:
 `use IkiWiki::Setup; IkiWiki::Setup::load($filename)`
+
+### Javascript
+
+Some plugins use javascript to make ikiwiki look a bit more web-2.0-ish.
+
+All javascript code should be put in `.js` files in the `javascript`
+underlay, and plugins using those files can enable use of the underlay by
+calling `add_underlay("javascript");` in their `import` function.
+
+You'll have to arrange for `<script>` tags to be added to the pages that
+use your javascript. This can be done using a `format` hook.
+
+Ikiwiki provides some utility functions in `ikiwiki.js`, for use by other
+javascript code. These include:
+
+#### `getElementsByClass(cls, node, tag)` 
+
+Returns an array of elements with the given class. The node and tag are
+optional and define what document node and element names to search.
+
+#### `hook(name, call)`
+
+The function `call` will be run as part of the hook named `name`.
+
+Note that to hook into `window.onload`, you can use the `onload' hook.
+
+#### `run_hooks(name)`
+
+Runs the hooks with the specified name.