doc/forum/suppressing_output_of_pages_included_only_for_their_side_effects.mdwn

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+In particular, it's kind of annoying that using the sidebar plugin results in the creation of a free-standing sidebar.html (which in the simplest case of course includes a copy of *its own content* as a sidebar in the simplest case).  It would be nice if there were a way to tell Ikiwiki to treat a file like sidebar.mdwn as "inline only": allow its content to be inlined but not to render it separately nor allow linking to it.
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+In reading through the code and associated docs, it appears that the ideal method is for the file to be removed from the $changed array by plugin's "needsbuild" hook.  Either the sidebar plugin could define such a hook, or perhaps a more general solution is the creation of a meta variable or config file regexp that would handle it according to the user's wishes.
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+I'm about ready to code up such a change but want to find out if I'm thinking along the right lines.  --[[blipvert]]