important note about pagestate persistence

diff --git a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
index b7c487ee223a3926c093ee77c49d854c35d7e2dc..4ff5ff59e2599662eea395fdaa88262411e35f65 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ used.
 
 When pages are deleted, ikiwiki automatically deletes their pagestate too.
 
+Note that page state does not persist across wiki rebuilds, only across
+wiki updates.
+
 ### Other variables
 
 If your plugin needs to access data about other pages in the wiki. It can