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Most of ikiwiki's [[features]] are implemented as plugins. Beyond the
[[type/core]] features, there are plugins to [[type/format]] text,
use [[type/tags]], show [[type/meta]] information, add [[type/auth]]
methods, do other [[type/useful]] stuff, add [[type/chrome]] to the
wiki, or just have [[type/fun]].

There's documentation if you want to [[write]] your own plugins, or you can
install and use plugins contributed by others. 

The [[mdwn]], [[inline]], [[htmlscrubber]], and [[passwordauth]] plugins
are enabled by default. To enable other plugins, use the `--plugin` switch
described in [[usage]], or the equivalent `add_plugins` line in
[[ikiwiki.setup]].

# Plugin directory

Add all plugins here. Or add ideas to the [[todo|todo/plugin]] page.

[[inline pages="plugins/* and !plugins/type/* and !plugins/write and !plugins/contrib and !*/Discussion" archive="yes" rootpage="plugins/contrib"]]

# Installing third party plugins

Plugins are perl modules and should be installed somewhere in the perl
module search path. See the @INC list at the end of the output of `perl -V`
for a list of the directories in that path. All plugins are in the
IkiWiki::Plugin namespace, so they go in a IkiWiki/Plugin subdirectory
inside the perl search path. For example, if your perl looks in
`/usr/local/lib/site_perl` for modules, you can locally install ikiwiki
plugins to `/usr/local/lib/site_perl/IkiWiki/Plugin`