Plugins can be used to add additional features to ikiwiki. Ikiwiki's backend RCS support is also pluggable, so support for new revision control systems can be added to ikiwiki. It's possible to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by others. The ikiiki package includes some standard plugins that are installed and by default. These include [[inline]], [[pagecount]], and [[brokenlinks]]. Of these, [[inline]] is enabled by default. To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]], or the equivalent line in [[ikiwiki.setup]]. ## Plugin directory Add your contributed plugins here. [[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="30"]] ## Installing third party plugins Plugins are perl modules and should be installed somewhere in the perl module search path. See the @INC list at the end of the output of `perl -V` for a list of the directories in that path. All plugins are in the IkiWiki::Plugin namespace, so they go in a IkiWiki/Plugin subdirectory inside the perl search path. For example, if your perl looks in `/usr/local/lib/site_perl` for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin`