What inline can do
inline is the IkiWiki directive for inlining other pages into the current page or for creating all artefacts a blog might need.
Usecases:
Inline some pages ‘raw’ in the current page.
Blog
Inline (selected) articles in time order in the current page.
Create time ordered list of titles/links to (selected) articles.
inline direcive, example blog
Exploring the example blog delivered with ikiwiki we find the
following uses of the inline directive:
Archive month page
Inlines the respectives months articles in full text in reverse order.
According to inline#template,
inlinepage.tmpl is used as template.
Created with the ikiwiki-calendar command via the
calendarmonth.tmpl.
<div class="inline" id="0"></div>
posts.mdwn
Creates a lists of titles and relative post date of the (ten most recent) articles, newest first. The titles are links to the respective article.
According to inline#template,
archivepage.tmpl is used as template on behalf of the archive=yes parameter.
<div class="inline" id="1"></div>
tags pages
Shows the same as posts.mdwn.
Autocreated tag page.
inline documentation
inline mentions two other templates
titlepage
“only shows post titles”
microblog
“optimised for” Microblogging