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[[Ikiwiki]] uses many templates for many purposes. By editing its templates,
you can fully customise this site.

Templates are located in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates` by default;
the `templatedir` setting can be used to make another directory be
searched first. Customized templates can also be placed inside the
"templates/" directory in your wiki's source.

Ikiwiki uses the HTML::Template module as its template engine. This
supports things like conditionals and loops in templates and is pretty
easy to learn. All you really need to know are a few things:

* To insert the value of a template variable, use `<TMPL_VAR variable>`.
* To make a block of text conditional on a variable being set use
  `<TMPL_IF NAME="variable">text</TMPL_IF>`.
* To use one block of text if a variable is set and a second if it's not,
  use `<TMPL_IF NAME="variable">text<TMPL_ELSE>other text</TMPL_IF>`

[[!if test="enabled(template)" then="""
## template pages

The template directive allows wiki pages to be used as templates,
filled out and inserted into other pages in the wiki.
"""]]
[[!if test="enabled(template) and enabled(inline)" then="""
[[!inline pages="templates/* and !*/discussion" feeds=no archive=yes
sort=title template=titlepage
rootpage=templates postformtext="Add a new template named:"]]
"""]]

[[!if test="enabled(edittemplate)" then="""
## edit templates

The edittemplate directive can be used to make new pages default to
containing text from a template, which can be filled as out the page is
edited.
"""]]

## wiki templates

These templates are used to build the wiki. The aim is to keep almost all
html out of ikiwiki and in the templates.

* `page.tmpl` - Used for displaying all regular wiki pages. This is the
  key template to customize. [[!if test="enabled(pagetemplate)" then="""
  (The pagetemplate directive can be used to make a page use a
  different template than `page.tmpl`.)"""]]
* `misc.tmpl` - Generic template used for any page that doesn't
  have a custom template.
* `rsspage.tmpl` - Used for generating rss feeds for blogs.
* `rssitem.tmpl` - Used for generating individual items on rss feeds.
* `atompage.tmpl` - Used for generating atom feeds for blogs.
* `atomitem.tmpl` - Used for generating individual items on atom feeds.
* `inlinepage.tmpl` - Used for displaying a post in a blog.
* `archivepage.tmpl` - Used for listing a page in a blog archive page.
* `titlepage.tmpl` - Used for listing a page by title in a blog archive page.
* `microblog.tmpl` - Used for showing a microblogging post inline.
* `blogpost.tmpl` - Used for a form to add a post to a blog (and a rss/atom links)
* `feedlink.tmpl` - Used to add rss/atom links if `blogpost.tmpl` is not used.
* `aggregatepost.tmpl` - Used by the aggregate plugin to create
  a page for a post.
* `searchform.tmpl`, `googleform.tmpl` - Used by the search plugin 
  and google plugin to add search forms to wiki pages.
* `searchquery.tmpl` - This is a Omega template, used by the
  search plugin.
* `comment.tmpl` - Used by the comments plugin to display a comment.
* `change.tmpl` - Used to create a page describing a change made to the wiki.
* `recentchanges.tmpl` - Used for listing a change on the RecentChanges page.
* `autoindex.tmpl` - Filled in by the autoindex plugin to make index pages.
* `autotag.tmpl` - Filled in by the tag plugin to make tag pages.
* `calendarmonth.tmpl`, `calendaryear.tmpl` - Used by ikiwiki-calendar to
  make calendar archive pages.
* `editpage.tmpl`, `editconflict.tmpl`, `editcreationconflict.tmpl`,
  `editfailedsave.tmpl`, `editpagegone.tmpl`, `pocreatepage.tmpl`,
  `editcomment.tmpl` `commentmoderation.tmpl`, `renamesummary.tmpl`,
  `passwordmail.tmpl` - Parts of ikiwiki's user interface; do not
  normally need to be customised.

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