This page is a place to document tips and techniques for using ikiwiki. [[toc ]] ## wikiannounce One thing I use ikiwiki for is the web pages for software projects I maintain. Each of my projects has a news page with an announcements feed, and to automatically update this when I release a new version, generating an announcement from the debian/changelog and debian/NEWS files, I use a [wikiannounce](http://svn.kitenet.net/trunk/bin/wikiannounce) program. It's somewhat specific to dealing with Debian packages, and uses a special `announcedir` target in debian/rules, but the general idea could be useful. --[[Joey]] ## blog script I should mention that I also have a [blog](http://svn.kitenet.net/trunk/bin/blog) program that I use to write blog posts in a text editor. The first line I enter is used as the title, and it automatically comes up with a unique page name based on the title and handles all the details of posting to my blog. --[[Joey]] ## using the web interface with a real text editor If you use Firefox or Iceweasel, the [It's All Text](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125) extension allows you to use a real text editor like Emacs or Vim to edit the contents of text areas. This allows you to edit ikiwiki pages with a real text editor through the ikiwiki web interface, rather than only with direct commit access. --[[JoshTriplett]] ## using ikiwiki as an issue tracker [[This_article|issue_tracking]] has some thoughts and tips on using ikiwiki as a BTS, as is done on this very wiki to track [[bugs]] and [[todo]] items for ikiwiki. ## redirections for usedirs Want to turn on the `usedirs` setting on an existing wiki without breaking all the links into it? Here's [[how|usedirs_redirections]].