web commit by JoshTriplett: Link URL more simply.

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / template.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn
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--- a/doc/plugins/template.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/template.mdwn
@@ -23,9 +23,13 @@ large chunks of marked up text to be embedded into a template:
        * Really 8 and a half.
        """]]
 
+Some templates are included in the wiki by default; these are listed in the
+[[templates]] page.
+
 To create a template, make a page in the wiki named `template/foo`. Note
 that this is a different location than the directory used for the
-[[templates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not inside the wiki.
+[[templates|wikitemplates]] used to build the wiki itself, which is not
+part of the wiki.
 
 The template uses the syntax used by the [[cpan HTML::Template]] perl
 module, which allows for some fairly complex things to be done. Consult its
@@ -53,3 +57,8 @@ Here's a sample template:
        <TMPL_VAR notes>
        </TMPL_IF>
        </span>
+
+The filled out template will be formatted the same as the rest of the page
+that contains it, so you can include WikiLinks and all other forms of wiki
+markup in the template. Note though that such WikiLinks will not show up as
+backlinks to the page that uses the template.