This wiki has the inline plugin enabled.

You can turn any page on this wiki into a weblog by using the inline PreProcessorDirective. For example:

[[!inline pages="blog/* and !*/Discussion" show="10" rootpage="blog"]]

Any pages that match the specified PageSpec (in the example, any SubPage of "blog") will be part of the blog, and the newest 10 of them will appear in the page. Note that if files that are not pages match the PageSpec, they will be included in the feed using RSS enclosures, which is useful for podcasting.

The optional rootpage parameter tells the wiki that new posts to this blog should default to being SubPages of "blog", and enables a form at the top of the blog that can be used to add new items.

If you want your blog to have an archive page listing every post ever made to it, you can accomplish that like this:

[[!inline pages="blog/* and !*/Discussion" archive="yes"]]

You can even create an automatically generated list of all the pages on the wiki, with the most recently added at the top, like this:

[[!inline pages="* and !*/Discussion" archive="yes"]]

If you want to be able to add pages to a given blog feed by tagging them, you can do that too. To tag a page, just make it link to a page or pages that represent its tags. Then use the special link() PageSpec to match all pages that have a given tag:

[[!inline pages="link(life)"]]

Or include some tags and exclude others:

[[!inline pages="link(debian) and !link(social)"]]

usage

Here are descriptions of all the supported parameters to the inline directive:

• pages - A PageSpec of the pages to inline.
• show - Specify the maximum number of matching pages to inline. Default is 10, unless archiving, when the default is to show all. Set to 0 to show all matching pages.
• skip - Specify a number of pages to skip displaying. Can be useful to produce a feed that only shows archived pages.
• rss - controls generation of an rss feed. If the wiki is configured to generate rss feeds by default, set to "no" to disable. If the wiki is configured to allowrss, set to "yes" to enable.
• atom - controls generation of an atom feed. If the wiki is configured to generate atom feeds by default, set to "no" to disable. If the wiki is configured to allowatom, set to "yes" to enable.
• feeds - controls generation of all types of feeds. Set to "no" to disable generating any feeds.
• postform - Set to "yes" to enables a form to post new pages to a blog.
• postformtext - Set to specify text that is displayed in a postform.
• rootpage - Also enables a form to post new pages to a blog, and allows specifying of a page that is used as the parent page for new pages.
• archive - If set to "yes", only list page titles and some metadata, not full controls.
• quick - Build archives in quick mode, without reading page contents for metadata. By default, this also turns off generation of any feeds.
• template - Specifies the template to fill out to display each inlined page. By default the inlinepage template is used, while the archivepage template is used for archives. Set this parameter to use some other, custom template, such as the titlepage template that only shows post titles. Note that you should still set archive=yes if your custom template does not include the page content.
• raw - Rather than the default behavior of creating a blog, if raw is set to "yes", the page will be included raw, without additional markup around it, as if it were a literal part of the source of the inlining page.
• description - Sets the description of the rss feed if one is generated. Defaults to the name of the wiki.
• actions - If set to "yes" add links to the bottom of the inlined pages for editing and discussion (if they would be shown at the top of the page itself).
• sort - Controls how inlined pages are sorted. The default, "age" is to sort newest created pages first. Setting it to "title" will sort pages by title, and "mtime" sorts most recently modified pages first.
• reverse - If set to "yes", causes the sort order to be reversed.
• feedpages - A PageSpec of inlined pages to include in the rss/atom feeds. The default is the same as the pages value above, and only pages matches by that value are included, but some of those can be excluded by specifying a tighter PageSpec here.
• feedshow - Specify the maximum number of matching pages to include in the rss/atom feeds. The default is the same as the show value above.
• feedonly - Only generate the feed, do not display the pages inline on the page.
• timeformat - Use this to specify how to display the time or date for pages in the blog. The format string is passed to the strftime(3) function.