* Make auth methods pluggable.

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins.mdwn b/doc/plugins.mdwn
index 5596586b36e244d3434504d609bb3242dbec9b78..6de17adc768bf841b0c0da2facb68a95829262dc 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins.mdwn
@@ -1,17 +1,23 @@
-There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by others. 
+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, add [[type/auth]]
+methods, do other [[type/useful]] stuff, add [[type/chrome]] to the
+wiki, or just have [[type/fun]].
 
-The [[inline]] and [[htmlscrubber]] plugins are enabled by default.
+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 line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
+or the equivalent `add_plugins` line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
 
-## Plugin directory
+# Plugin directory
 
 Add all plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page.
 
-[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="60"]]
+[[inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and !plugins/contrib and !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib"]]
 
-## Installing third party plugins
+# 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`