Most of ikiwiki's [[features]] are implemented as plugins. Beyond the [[type/core]] features, there are plugins to [[type/format]] text, use [[type/tags]], show [[type/meta]] information, do other [[type/useful]] stuff, add [[type/chrome]] to the wiki, or just have [[type/fun]]. There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by others. The [[mdwn]], [[inline]], and [[htmlscrubber]] plugins are enabled by default. To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]], or the equivalent `add_plugins` line in [[ikiwiki.setup]]. # Plugin directory Add all plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page. [[inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and !plugins/contrib and !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="60"]] # 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`