[[!template id=plugin name=pagespec_alias author="[[Jon]]"]]
[[!tag type/meta]]

The pagespec_alias plugin allows the administrator(s) of a wiki to define
[[PageSpec]] aliases: short names for PageSpecs to ease re-use.

Within the setup file, the `pagespec_aliases` value is treated as a list
of key/value pairs.  The keys define alias names, the values the pagespecs
to which they refer.

For example:

    pagespec_aliases:
       image: "*.png or *.jpg or *.jpeg or *.gif or *.ico"
       helper: "*.css or *.js"
       boring: "image() or helper() or internal(*)"

With the above, you could use the pagespec aliases such as 

    \[[!map pages="!boring()"]]

To define a site map which excluded various page names which might be
uninteresting to include in a site map.


## Download
 
 * <https://github.com/jmtd/ikiwiki/blob/pagespec-alias/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagespec_alias.pm>