[[!meta author="spalax"]]
[[!template id=plugin name=redirect author="[[Louis|spalax]]"]]

This plugin provides a [[ikiwiki/directive/redirect]] [[ikiwiki/directive]].

Using this, you can cause a page to redirect to another page (something similar to the ``redir`` option of the [[meta|http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/directive/meta]] plugin.

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# Directive

It accepts options ``pages``, ``skip``, ``sort``, ``reverse``, which have the same meaning as they have in the [[inline|http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/directive/inline/]] directive. It builds a list of pages using those arguments, and redirect the page to the first page of this list.

It also renders a text *If you are not redirected automatically, follow \[[this link]].* This text can be customized by changing the template `redirect.tmpl`, which accepts a single variable ``TARGETPAGE``.

# Example

To have a page ``latest.html`` redirect to your latest blog post, have the following line into ``latest.mdwn``:

    \[[!redirect pages="blog/* and !blog/*"]]

# Setup

This directive accepts no setup options.

# Differences with the ``meta`` plugin

* This directive is better than the ``redir`` option of the [[meta|http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/directive/meta/]] plugin because it can redirect to (the first page of) a pagespec, meaning things like *"redirect to my latest blog post"*.
* The ``redir`` option of the [[meta|http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/directive/meta]] plugin is better than this directive because:
  * it can redirect to an anchor ``\[[!meta redir="foo#bar"]]``;
  * it can redirect to an external page ``\[[!meta redir="http://example.com"]]``.

# Download and install

Code and documentation can be found here : [[https://atelier.gresille.org/projects/gresille-ikiwiki/wiki/Redirect]].