> Before I do though, would it perhaps make sense to merge
> this in with the pagetemplate plugin? They do such a similar thing,
> and unless letting users control the template by editing a page is not
-> wanted, I can't see any reason not to combine them. --[[Joey]]
+> wanted, I can't see any reason not to combine them. --[[Joey]]
+
+> One other idea is moving the pagespec from setup file to a directive.
+> The edittemplate plugin does that, and it might be nice
+> to be consistent with that. To implement it, you'd have to
+> make the scan hook store the template pagespecs in `%pagestate`,
+> so a bit more complicated. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I started with the pagetemplate plugin, which is why they're so similar. I guess they could be combined.
+>> I had a brief think about having the specs and templates defined in a directive rather than the config file, but it got tricky.
+>> How do you know what needs to be rebuilt when? There is probably a solution, maybe even an obvious one, but I thought that getting something done was more important than polishing it.
+>> In the worst case, admins can always use the web interface to change the setup :).
+
+>> I wanted this to put comments on my new blog, and was more interested in that goal than this subgoal. I've moved most of my web pages to IkiWiki and there is only one small part that is the blog.
+>> I wanted to use [[Disqus comments|tips/Adding_Disqus_to_your_wiki/]], but only on the blog pages. (I'm using Disqus rather than IkiWiki comments because I don't want to have to deal with spam, security, etc. I'll happily just let someone else host the comments.) -- [[Will]]
+
+>>> Yes, handing the rebuild is a good reason not to use directives for
+>>> this.
+>>>
+>>> I do still think combining this with pagetemplate would be good.
+>>> --[[Joey]]
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