From: joey Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:31:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: add warnings about using map, inline, etc with the sidebar causing X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/eb5f8531fe3d9cc752a10343bb52abf8d0858196 add warnings about using map, inline, etc with the sidebar causing performance nightmares --- diff --git a/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn b/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn index 14cfa08c6..7e0ad5cf6 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn @@ -13,3 +13,9 @@ SubPages, if the plugin is enabled. Note that to disable a sidebar for a [[SubPage]] of a page that has a sidebar, you can create a sidebar page that is completely empty. This will turn off the sidebar altogether. + +Warning: Any change to the sidebar will cause a rebuild of the whole wiki, +since every page includes a copy that has to be updates. This can +especially be a problem if the sidebar includes [[inline]] or [[map]] +directives, since any changes to pages inlined or mapped onto the sidebar +will change the sidebar and cause a full wiki rebuild.