I really like the new approach to having only one main template "page.tmpl". For instance, it improves previews during edits. But it causes some nasty bugs for plugins that use the pagetemplate hook. It is especially visible with the [[plugins/sidebar]] plugin. ## Some examples ### A first example * activate sidebars globally and cgi * create "/sidebar.mdwn" with "[[foo]]" inside * create "/foo.mdwn" with "hello!" inside * create "/bar.mdwn" * run ikiwiki * with the web browser, go to the page "bar" * notice the sidebar, click on "foo" * notice the page "foo" is now displayed (hello!) * return the the page "bar" and click "edit" * notice the sidebar is still here, click on the "foo" * -> Problem: 404, the browser goes to "/bar/foo" * -> Was expected: the browser goes to "/foo" ### A second example * create "/bar/sidebar.mdwn" with "world" * run ikiwiki * with the web browser, go to the page "bar" * notice the sidebar displays "world" * click "edit" * -> Problem: the sidebar now shows the foo link (it is the root sidebar!) * -> Was expecte : the sidebar displays "world" ### A last example * with the web browser edit the page "bar" * type [[!sidebar content="goodby"]] * click preview * -> Problem: the sidebar still displays the foo link * -> Was expected: the sidebar display "goodby" ## Some superficial hacking With the following workaround hacks, I manage to solve the 3 examples shown above: 1- edit IkiWiki/Plugin/editpage.pm and call showform with additional page and destpage parameters:
showform($form, \@buttons, $session, $q, forcebaseurl => $baseurl, page => $page, destpage => $page);
2- edit /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki.pm and modify the misctemplate function to use the given page and destpage:
my %params=@_;
shift->(page => $params{page}, destpage => $params{destpage}, template => $template);
I do not guarantee (I do not even expect) that it is the proper way to solve this bug but it may help developers to find and solve the real problem.