ikiwiki/ ikiwiki-calendar

# NAME

ikiwiki-calendar - create calendar archive pages

# SYNOPSIS

ikiwiki-calendar [-f] your.setup [pagespec] [startyear [endyear]]

# DESCRIPTION

`ikiwiki-calendar` creates pages that use the calendar directive, allowing the archives to be browsed one month at a time, with calendar-based navigation.

You must specify the setup file for your wiki. The pages will be created inside its `srcdir`, beneath the `archivebase` directory used by the calendar plugin (default "archives").

To control which pages are included on the calendars, a PageSpec can be specified. The default is all pages, or the pages specified by the `comments_pagespec` setting in the config file. A pagespec can also be specified on the command line. To limit it to only posts in a blog, use something like "posts/ and !/Discussion".

It defaults to creating calendar pages for the current year. If you specify a year, it will create pages for that year. Specify a second year to create pages for a span of years.

Existing pages will not be overwritten by this command by default. Use the `-f` switch to force it to overwrite any existing pages.

# CRONTAB

While this command only needs to be run once a year to update the archive pages for each new year, you are recommended to set up a cron job to run it daily, at midnight. Then it will also update the calendars to highlight the current day.

An example crontab:

    0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup 'posts/* and !*/Discussion'

# TEMPLATES

This command uses two templates to generate the pages, `calendarmonth.tmpl` and `calendaryear.tmpl`.

# calendar setup option

Most of the goals of this command can be replaced by setting up `calendar_autocreate` setup option (of plugin calendar), and running `ikiwiki --setup you.setup`. The only thing that `ikiwiki-calendar` can do and that `ikiwiki` cannot is forcing page generation (using `-f` switch).

# AUTHOR

Joey Hess joey@ikiwiki.info

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