ikiwiki/ tags

While ikiwiki supports hierarchically categorising pages by creating SubPages, that's often not flexible enough, and it can also be useful to tag pages in various non-hierarchical ways.

Since this is a wiki, tagging is just a form of linking. For example, since this page links to features, it can be considered to have something to do with ikiwiki's features. If you want to put pages into a category, the typical wiki way to do so is to create a "CategoryFoo" page and link pages in the category to it. That is just another form of tagging.

Sometimes you may want to tag a page without putting a visible link on it. The meta plugin allows you to do so, like this:

\[[meta link=mytag]]

One way to use these tags is to create a blog of pages that have a particular set of tags. Or just look at the BackLinks to a tag page to see all the pages that are tagged with it. Plugins can be written to do anything else with tags that you might desire.