hold onto your hats, full-fledged blogging has arrived in ikiwiki!

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+You can turn any page on this wiki into a weblog by inserting a
+[[PostProcessorDirective]]. Like this:
+
+\\[[inline pages="blog/*" show="10"]]
+
+Any pages that match the specified [[GlobList]] (in the exaple, any
+[[SubPages]] of "blog") will be part of the blog, and the newest 10
+of them will appear in the page.
diff --git a/basewiki/helponformatting.mdwn b/basewiki/helponformatting.mdwn
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+Advanced users can use [[PostProcessorDirective]]s to do additional cool
+stuff.
+
+----
+
 This style of text formatting is called [[MarkDown]].
diff --git a/basewiki/postprocessordirective.mdwn b/basewiki/postprocessordirective.mdwn
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+Postprocessor directives are similar to a [[WikiLink]] in form, except they
+contain spaces and parameters. The general form is:
+
+\\[[directive param="value" param="value"]]
+
+This gets expanded after the rest of the page is processed, and can be used
+to transform the page in various ways.
+
+Currently, these postprocessor directives are available:
+
+* "inline" to make a [[blog]]