X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/df5358f665861cd9a06a038f8b2f7f31ad4b6a38..a4a1b8e6532b38cc3d045647b568cb2e6d737524:/doc/tags.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tags.mdwn b/doc/tags.mdwn index 2b3d73987..71d925b24 100644 --- a/doc/tags.mdwn +++ b/doc/tags.mdwn @@ -1,19 +1,26 @@ While ikiwiki supports hierarchically categorising pages by creating -[[SubPage]]s, that's often not flexible enough, and it can also be useful -to tag pages in various non-hierarchical ways. +[[SubPages|ikiwiki/SubPage]], that's often not flexible enough, and it can also be +useful to tag pages in various non-hierarchical ways. -Since this is a wiki, tagging is just a form of linking. For example, since -this page links to [[features]], it can be considered to have something to -do with ikiwiki's features. If you want to put pages into a category, the -typical wiki way to do so is to create a "CategoryFoo" page and link pages -in the category to it. That is just another form of tagging. +Since this is a wiki, tagging is just a form of linking. The general rule +is that all tags are links, but not all links are tags. So a tag is a +special link that ikiwiki knows is intended to be used as a tag. -Sometimes you may want to tag a page without putting a visible link on it. -The [[meta_plugin|plugins/meta]] allows you to do so, like this: +Generally you will tag a page without putting a visible link on it. +The [[tag_plugin|plugins/tag]] allows you to do so, like this: - \\[[meta link=mytag]] + \[[!tag mytag othertag thirdtag]] + +You can also tag a page with a visible link: + + \[[!taglink mytag]] + +This tag will be displayed just like a regular [[ikiwiki/WikiLink]]. One way to use these tags is to create a [[blog]] of pages that have a particular set of tags. Or just look at the [[BackLinks]] to a tag page to see all the pages that are tagged with it. [[Plugins]] can be written to do anything else with tags that you might desire. + +Once you have tags, you can use the [[plugins/pagestats]] plugin to +generate tag clouds.