X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/437825b25a4553dba993264ef40db2215e007284..79b4094908a0a9f2557715b29ef9c53c05879bb7:/doc/tags.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tags.mdwn b/doc/tags.mdwn index 36753a5b4..cd54fed36 100644 --- a/doc/tags.mdwn +++ b/doc/tags.mdwn @@ -2,18 +2,25 @@ While ikiwiki supports hierarchically categorising pages by creating [[SubPage]]s, that's often not flexible enough, and it can also be useful to tag pages in various non-hierarchical ways. -Since this is a wiki, tagging is just a form of linking. For example, since -this page links to [[features]], it can be considered to have something to -do with ikiwiki's features. If you want to put pages into a category, the -typical wiki way to do so is to create a "CategoryFoo" page and link pages -in the category to it. That is just another form of tagging. +Since this is a wiki, tagging is just a form of linking. The general rule +is that all tags are links, but not all links are tags. So a tag is a +special link that ikiwiki knows is intended to be used as a tag. -Sometimes you may want to tag a page without putting a visible link on it. +Generally you will tag a page without putting a visible link on it. The [[tag_plugin|plugins/tag]] allows you to do so, like this: \[[tag mytag othertag thirdtag]] +You can also tag a page with a visible link: + + \[[taglink mytag]] + +This tag will be displayed just like a regular [[WikiLink]]. + One way to use these tags is to create a [[blog]] of pages that have a particular set of tags. Or just look at the [[BackLinks]] to a tag page to see all the pages that are tagged with it. [[Plugins]] can be written to do anything else with tags that you might desire. + +Once you have tags, you can use the [[plugins/pagestats]] plugin to +generate tag clouds.