diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm
index 9e875c79c..b1f4747fe 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/search.pm
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ sub import {
 	hook(type => "getsetup", id => "search", call => \&getsetup);
 	hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "search", call => \&checkconfig);
 	hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "search", call => \&pagetemplate);
-	hook(type => "postscan", id => "search", call => \&index);
+	hook(type => "indexhtml", id => "search", call => \&index);
 	hook(type => "delete", id => "search", call => \&delete);
 	hook(type => "cgi", id => "search", call => \&cgi);
 }
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example b/IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example
index a404e24af..34713c73b 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/skeleton.pm.example
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ sub import {
 	hook(type => "scan", id => "skeleton", call => \&scan);
 	hook(type => "htmlize", id => "skeleton", call => \&htmlize);
 	hook(type => "sanitize", id => "skeleton", call => \&sanitize);
-	hook(type => "postscan", id => "skeleton", call => \&postscan);
+	hook(type => "indexhtml", id => "skeleton", call => \&indexhtml);
 	hook(type => "format", id => "skeleton", call => \&format);
 	hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "skeleton", call => \&pagetemplate);
 	hook(type => "templatefile", id => "skeleton", call => \&templatefile);
@@ -118,10 +118,10 @@ sub sanitize (@) {
 	return $params{content};
 }
 
-sub postscan (@) {
+sub indexhtml (@) {
 	my %params=@_;
 	
-	debug("skeleton plugin running as postscan");
+	debug("skeleton plugin running as indexhtml");
 }
 
 sub format (@) {
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Render.pm b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
index e5ba0079b..30e3d4199 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Render.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ sub genpage ($$) {
 	my $page=shift;
 	my $content=shift;
 	
-	run_hooks(postscan => sub {
+	run_hooks(indexhtml => sub {
 		shift->(page => $page, content => $content);
 	});
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 77fd13826..eb67c2bde 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ ikiwiki (3.20100505) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * If you have a locally customised page.tmpl, it needs to be updated
     to set <base> when BASEURL or FORCEBAREURL is set.
   * Gave comment and page editing forms some CSS and accessability love.
+  * Renamed postscan hook to indexhtml, to reflect its changed position,
+    and typical use.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 05 May 2010 18:07:29 -0400
 
diff --git a/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn b/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn
index be14e5126..c6e3cd4fd 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/pagetitle_function_does_not_respect_meta_titles.mdwn
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ So, looking at your meta branch: --[[Joey]]
   has no title, then A will display the link as "B". Now page B is modified
   and a title is added. Nothing updates "A".
   The added overhead of rebuilding every page that links to B when B is
-  changed (as the `postscan` hook of the po plugin does) is IMHO a killer.
+  changed (as the `indexhtml` hook of the po plugin does) is IMHO a killer.
   That could be hundreds or thousands of pages, making interactive editing
   way slow. This is probably the main reason I had not attempted this whole
   thing myself. IMHO this calls for some kind of intellegent dependency
diff --git a/doc/plugins/po/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po/discussion.mdwn
index ab822e76c..27683f1ea 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/po/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/po/discussion.mdwn
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ finish it at some point in the first quarter of 2009. --[[intrigeri]]
 >>>>
 >>>>> Done. --[[intrigeri]]
 >>> 
-> * I'm very fearful of the `add_depends` in `postscan`. 
+> * I'm very fearful of the `add_depends` in `indexhtml`. 
 >   Does this make every page depend on every page that links
 >   to it? Won't this absurdly bloat the dependency pagespecs
 >   and slow everything down? And since nicepagetitle is given
diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index 3b1d770eb..7180237a4 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ built.
 Now that it knows what pages it needs to build, ikiwiki runs two
 compile passes. First, it runs `scan` hooks, which collect metadata about
 the pages. Then it runs a page rendering pipeline, by calling in turn these
-hooks: `filter`, `preprocess`, `linkify`, `htmlize`, `postscan`,
+hooks: `filter`, `preprocess`, `linkify`, `htmlize`, `indexhtml`,
 `pagetemplate`, `sanitize`, `format`.
 
 After all necessary pages are built, it calls the `change` hook. Finally,
@@ -282,9 +282,9 @@ like `Makefile` that have no extension.
 If `hook` is passed an optional "longname" parameter, this value is used
 when prompting a user to choose a page type on the edit page form.
 
-### postscan
+### indexhtml
 
-	hook(type => "postscan", id => "foo", call => \&postscan);
+	hook(type => "indexhtml", id => "foo", call => \&indexhtml);
 
 This hook is called once the page has been converted to html (but before
 the generated html is put in a template). The most common use is to