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-Plugins can be used to add additional features to ikiwiki. The interface is quite flexible, allowing plugins to register [[PreProcessorDirective]]s, hook into [[CGI]] mode, and more. Ikiwiki's backend RCS support is also pluggable, so support for new revision control systems can be added to ikiwiki. 
-
-There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can install and use plugins contributed by others. 
-
-The ikiwiki package includes some standard plugins that are installed and
-by default. These include [[inline]], [[pagecount]], and [[brokenlinks]].
-Of these, [[inline]] is enabled by default.
-
-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`
-for a list of the directories in that path. All plugins are in the
-IkiWiki::Plugin namespace, so they go in a IkiWiki/Plugin subdirectory
-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`
+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]].
+
+There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can
+install and use plugins [[contributed|contrib]] by others.
+
+To enable plugins, use the `--plugin` switch described in
+[[usage]], or the equivalent `add_plugins` line in [[ikiwiki.setup]].
+Enable the [[goodstuff]] plugin to get a nice selection of plugins that
+will fit most uses of ikiwiki.
+
+# Plugin directory
+
+[[inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and
+!plugins/contrib and !*/Discussion"
+feedpages="created_after(graphviz)" archive="yes"
+rootpage="plugins/contrib" postformtext="Add a new plugin named:" show=0]]