-Plugins can be used to add additional features to ikiwiki. It's possible to
-[[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by
-others.
+Plugins can be used to add additional features to ikiwiki. Ikiwiki's
+backend RCS support is also pluggable, so support for new revision control
+systems can be added to ikiwiki. It's possible to [[write]] your own plugins,
+or you can install and use plugins contributed by others.
The ikiiki package includes some standard plugins that are installed and
by default. These include [[inline]], [[pagecount]], and [[brokenlinks]].
Of these, [[inline]] is enabled by default.
-## Third party plugins
+To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]],
+or the equivalent line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
+
+## Plugin directory
+
+Add your contributed plugins here.
+
+[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="30"]]
+
+## 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`
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`
-
-Once a plugin is installed, you need to configure ikiwiki to load it using
-the `--plugin` switch described in [[usage]], or the equivilant line in
-[[ikiwiki.setup]].
-
-## Plugin directory
-
-Add your contributed plugins using this form:
-
-[[inline pages="plugins/* !plugins/write !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib" show="30"]]
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