X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/eac31eff5c9147792c2886359b0faa4615e51e77..2498753310ab26803bf899f7c1cb2b21aa313ab0:/doc/plugins/template.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn index 7b70bb281..4efab57e3 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=template included=1 author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[template id=plugin name=template author="[[Joey]]"]] [[tag type/format]] With this plugin, you can set up templates, and cause them to be filled out @@ -23,9 +23,13 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template: * Really 8 and a half. """]] +Some templates are included in the wiki by default; these are listed in the +[[templates]] page. + To create a template, make a page in the wiki named `template/foo`. Note that this is a different location than the directory used for the -[[templates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not inside the wiki. +[[templates|wikitemplates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not +part of the wiki. The template uses the syntax used by the [[cpan HTML::Template]] perl module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its @@ -53,3 +57,8 @@ Here's a sample template: + +The filled out template will be formatted the same as the rest of the page +that contains it, so you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki +markup in the template. Note though that such WikiLinks will not show up as +backlinks to the page that uses the template.