ikiwiki is not yet able to create a Google sitemap internally, so I'm using google-sitemapgen. To run it automatically when the website is being updated, I've changed the git hook to run it after the ikiwiki hook.

• In the ikiwiki setup file let git_wrapper point to a file which is not the post-update hook, so you're able to run it from your own skript. I'm using /path/to/myikiwiki.git/hooks/post-update.ikiwiki.
• Write a skript which runs as post-update hook and executes the created hook from ikiwiki and google-sitemapgen with a proper configuration. My versions of both files are listed below.

/path/to/myikiwiki.git/hooks/post-update

#!/bin/sh

/path/to/myikiwiki.git/hooks/post-update.ikiwiki

/usr/bin/google-sitemapgen --config=/path/to/mywikiconfig/sitemap_config.xml

exec git-update-server-info

/path/to/mywikiconfig/sitemap_config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<site
  base_url="http://bzed.de/"
  store_into="/path/to/bzed.de/sitemap.xml.gz"
  verbose="0"
  suppress_search_engine_notify="0"
  default_encoding="UTF-8"
  >

  <directory
    path="/path/to/bzed.de"
    url="http://bzed.de/"
    default_file="index.html"
  />

  <!-- Exclude URLs that end with a '~'   (IE: emacs backup files)      -->
  <filter  action="drop"  type="wildcard"  pattern="*~"           />

  <!-- Exclude URLs within UNIX-style hidden files or directories       -->
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"    pattern="/\.*"     />

  <!-- Exclude ikiwiki directories -->
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/helponformatting/*"           />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/ikiwiki/*"                    />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/markdown/*"                   />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/openid/*"                     />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/pagespec/*"                   />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/preprocessordirective/*"      />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/sandbox/*"                    />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/shortcuts/*"                  />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/smileys/*"                    />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/subpage/*"                    />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/templates/*"                  />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/theme/*"                      />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/wikiicons/*"                  />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/wikilink/*"                   />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="regexp"  pattern="/wmd/*"                        />


  <!-- Exclude css files, favicon and javascript -->
  <filter  action="drop"  type="wildcard"    pattern="*.css"                         />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="wildcard"    pattern="*favicon.ico"                  />
  <filter  action="drop"  type="wildcard"    pattern="*.js"                          />

  <!-- Exclude ikiwiki.cgi -->
  <filter  action="drop"  type="wildcard"    pattern="ikiwiki.cgi"                   />


</site>

See the examples and README files in /usr/share/doc/google-sitemapgen/ for an introduction into configuring google-sitemapgen.

So far the generated sitemaps works very well, especially for search engines which are not able to use the rss feeds like Google does.

Some minutes before the release of 3.20100610 we convinced Joey in #ikiwiki to commit the following changes:

• The part of the page which is usually parallel to the sidebar lives within a new div with the id "pagebody" now. This is the proper fix for the issue and workaround described here.
• pre elements will show a scrollbar automatically now, thanks to overflow: auto; in the CSS.

We hope that nobody wants to hit us with a bat now

After more than a year of using ikiwiki to run bzed.de I thought it would be a good time replace the darkish-brown style by something bright. Also I wanted to get righ of the massive changes I had to do on the template files to make the old layout work.

Unfortunately I hit one of the - in my opinion - major problems in the ikiwiki templates again: You can't rely on all <div>s being available on all pages, which is quite annoying when you need them to style the page with CSS. So I had to make a tiny change to page.tmpl:

diff --git a/templates/page.tmpl b/templates/page.tmpl
index 8a9911f..dbf78a0 100644
--- a/templates/page.tmpl
+++ b/templates/page.tmpl
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@
 <TMPL_VAR CONTENT>
 <TMPL_IF HTML5></section><TMPL_ELSE></div></TMPL_IF>

-<TMPL_IF COMMENTS>
 <TMPL_IF HTML5><section id="comments"><TMPL_ELSE><div id="comments"></TMPL_IF>
+<TMPL_IF COMMENTS>
 <TMPL_VAR COMMENTS>
 <TMPL_IF ADDCOMMENTURL>
 <div class="addcomment">
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@
 <TMPL_ELSE>
 <div class="addcomment">Comments on this page are closed.</div>
 </TMPL_IF>
-<TMPL_IF HTML5></section><TMPL_ELSE></div></TMPL_IF>
 </TMPL_IF>
+<TMPL_IF HTML5></section><TMPL_ELSE></div></TMPL_IF>

 <TMPL_IF HTML5><footer id="footer" class="pagefooter"><TMPL_ELSE><div id="footer" class="pagefooter"></TMPL_IF>
 <TMPL_IF HTML5><nav id="pageinfo"><TMPL_ELSE><div id="pageinfo"></TMPL_IF>

Everything else is a bit of CSS in local.css and some images. There are still various things which could be optimized, but there are more important things to do now :).