X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/f7f3b0bb7d91c74f67023e970cee71ad2ea260da..4e4b43898742c78fbd0e8d0281f2297ba8239a8e:/doc/features.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/features.mdwn b/doc/features.mdwn index c568213bf..b2c810f30 100644 --- a/doc/features.mdwn +++ b/doc/features.mdwn @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ run a simple wiki without page history, it can do that too. ## A wiki compiler -ikiwiki is a wiki compiler; it builds static website for your wiki, and +ikiwiki is a wiki compiler; it builds a static website for your wiki, and updates it as pages are edited. It is fast and smart about updating a wiki, it only builds pages that have changed (and tracks things like creation of new pages and links that can indirectly cause a page to need a rebuild) @@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ provided by ikiwiki on top of regular markdown is the [[WikiLink]] and If you prefer to use some other markup language, ikiwiki allows others to easily be added by [[plugins]]. For example it also supports traditional [[plugins/WikiText]] formatted pages, pages written as pure -[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]]. +[[plugins/HTML]], or pages written in [[reStructuredText|plugins/rst]] +or [[Textile|plugins/textile]]. ikiwiki also supports files of any other type, including plain text, images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied @@ -50,20 +51,25 @@ program, or other special file and link to it from your wiki pages. You can turn any page in the wiki into a [[blog]]. Pages matching a specified [[PageSpec]] will be displayed as a weblog within the blog -page. And an RSS feed can be generated to follow the blog. +page. And RSS or Atom feeds can be generated to follow the blog. Ikiwiki's own [[TODO]], [[news]], and [[plugins]] pages are good examples -of some of the flexible ways that this can be used. +of some of the flexible ways that this can be used. There is also an +[[example_blog|examples/blog]] set up that you can copy into your own wiki. Ikiwiki can also [[plugins/aggregate]] external blogs, feeding them into the wiki. This can be used to create a Planet type site that aggregates interesting feeds. -## Valid html and css +You can also mix blogging with podcasting by dropping audio files where +they will be picked up like blog posts. This will work for any files that +you would care to syndicate. + +## Valid html and [[css]] ikiwiki aims to produce [valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer). -ikiwiki generates html using [[templates]], and uses css, so you can +ikiwiki generates html using [[templates]], and uses [[css]], so you can change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like. ## [[Plugins]] @@ -90,7 +96,7 @@ incomplete list of some of them. You can tag pages and use these tags in various ways. Tags will show up in the ways you'd expect, like at the bottom of pages, in blogs, and -in rss feeds. +in RSS and Atom feeds. ### [[SubPages|SubPage]] @@ -124,7 +130,11 @@ and can be enabled by enabling [[CGI]]. ### User registration Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to post -pages; online user registration form, etc. +pages. + +User registration can be done using a web form, or ikiwiki can be +configured to accept users authenticated with OpenID, or HTTP basic +authentication, or other methods implemented via plugins. ### Discussion pages @@ -134,7 +144,8 @@ Thanks to subpages, every page can easily and automatically have a ### Page locking -Wiki admins can lock pages so that only other admins can edit them. +Wiki admins can [[lock_pages|page_locking]] so that only other admins +can edit them. ### [[PageHistory]]