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diff --git a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn index c40a6dc22..e2efcd83f 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/aggregate.mdwn @@ -5,13 +5,9 @@ This plugin allows content from other feeds to be aggregated into the wiki. To specify feeds to aggregate, use the [[ikiwiki/directive/aggregate]] [[ikiwiki/directive]]. -New users of aggregate should enable the `aggregateinternal => 1` option in the -.setup file. If you don't do so, you will need to enable the [[html]] plugin -as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as HTML. - -The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. The -[[htmltidy]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily contain html -problems, some of which tidy can fix. +The [[meta]] and [[tag]] plugins are also recommended. Either the +[[htmltidy]] or [[htmlbalance]] plugin is suggested, since feeds can easily +contain html problems, some of which these plugins can fix. You will need to run ikiwiki periodically from a cron job, passing it the --aggregate parameter, to make it check for new posts. Here's an example @@ -27,37 +23,19 @@ visit is `http://whatever/ikiwiki.cgi?do=aggregate_webtrigger`. Anyone can visit the url to trigger an aggregation run, but it will only check each feed if its `updateinterval` has passed. -## internal pages and `aggregateinternal` +## aggregated pages This plugin creates a page for each aggregated item. If the `aggregateinternal` option is enabled in the setup file (which is -recommended), aggregated pages are stored in the source directory with a +the default), aggregated pages are stored in the source directory with a "._aggregated" extension. These pages cannot be edited by web users, and do not generate first-class wiki pages. They can still be inlined into a blog, but you have to use `internal` in [[PageSpecs|IkiWiki/PageSpec]], like `internal(blog/*)`. -For backward compatibility, the default is that these pages have the -".html" extension, and are first-class wiki pages -- each one generates -a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited. - -That turns out to not be ideal for aggregated content, because publishing -files for each of those pages is a waste of disk space and CPU, and you -probably don't want to allow them to be edited. So, there is an alternative -method that can be used (and is recommended), turned on by the -`aggregateinternal` option in the setup file. - -If you are already using aggregate and want to enable `aggregateinternal`, -you should follow this process: - -1. Update all [[PageSpecs|ikiwiki/PageSpec]] that refer to the aggregated - pages -- such as those in inlines. Put "internal()" around globs - in those PageSpecs. For example, if the PageSpec was `foo/*`, it should - be changed to `internal(foo/*)`. This has to be done because internal - pages are not matched by regular globs. -2. Turn on `aggregateinternal` in the setup file. -3. Use [[ikiwiki-transition]] to rename all existing aggregated `.html` - files in the srcdir. The command to run is - `ikiwiki-transition aggregateinternal $setupfile`, -4. Refresh the wiki. (`ikiwiki -setup your.setup -refresh`) +If `aggregateinternal` is disabled, you will need to enable the [[html]] +plugin as well as aggregate itself, since feed entries will be stored as +HTML, and as first-class wiki pages -- each one generates +a separate HTML page in the output, and they can even be edited. This +option is provided only for backwards compatability. |