The `edittemplate` directive is supplied by the [[!iki plugins/edittemplate
desc=edittemplate]] plugin.

This directive allows registering template pages, that provide default
content for new pages created using the web frontend. To register a
template, insert an [[ikiwiki/directive/edittemplate]] directive on some
other page.

	\[[!edittemplate template="bugtemplate" match="bugs/*"]]
 
A recommended place to put the directive is on the parent page of the pages
that will be created using the template. So the above example would be put
on the bugs page. (Do not put the directive on the template page itself.)

In the above example, the page named "bugtemplate" is registered as a
template to be used when any page named "bugs/*" is created. To avoid the
directive displaying a note about the template being registered, add
"silent=yes".

Often the template page contains a simple skeleton for a particular type of
page, wrapped in a [[templatebody]] directive. For the bug report pages in
the above example, it might look something like:

	\[[!templatebody <<ENDBODY
	Package: 
	Version: 
	Reproducible: y/n
	Details:
	ENDBODY]]

The template page can also contain [[!cpan HTML::Template]] directives, like
other ikiwiki [[templates]].

These variables might be set:

* `<TMPL_VAR name>` is replaced with the name of the page being created.
  
* `<TMPL_VAR uuid>` is replaced with a version 4 (random) UUID suitable for
  use in `\[[!meta guid="urn:uuid:<TMPL_VAR uuid>"]]`.  (Requires the
  `UUID::Tiny` Perl module if not running on Linux.)

* `<TMPL_VAR time>` is replaced with the current (template generation)  time
  using a fixed format (RFC 3339, `%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ`), suitable for use in
  `\[[!meta date="<TMPL_VAR time>"]]` (see [[meta]]) or `\[[!date "<TMPL_VAR
  time>"]]` (see [[date]]).

Text outside the [[templatebody]] directive is not part of the template, and
can be used to document it.

If the template does not contain a [[templatebody]] directive, the entire
source of the page is used for the template. This is deprecated.

[[!meta robots="noindex, follow"]]
