--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# Sidebar plugin.
+# by Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov at iki dot fi>
+
+package IkiWiki::Plugin::sidebar;
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use IkiWiki;
+
+sub import { #{{{
+ IkiWiki::hook(type => "pagetemplate", id => "sidebar",
+ call => \&pagetemplate);
+} # }}}
+
+sub sidebar_content ($) { #{{{
+ my $page=shift;
+
+ my $sidebar_page=IkiWiki::bestlink($page, "sidebar") || return;
+ my $sidebar_file=$IkiWiki::pagesources{$sidebar_page} || return;
+ my $sidebar_type=IkiWiki::pagetype($sidebar_file);
+
+ if (defined $sidebar_type) {
+ IkiWiki::add_depends($page, $sidebar_page);
+ my $content=IkiWiki::readfile(IkiWiki::srcfile($sidebar_file));
+ return unless length $content;
+ return IkiWiki::htmlize($sidebar_type,
+ IkiWiki::preprocess($sidebar_page, $page,
+ IkiWiki::linkify($sidebar_page, $page, $content)));
+ }
+
+} # }}}
+
+sub pagetemplate (@) { #{{{
+ my %params=@_;
+
+ my $page=$params{page};
+ my $template=$params{template};
+
+ if ($template->query(name => "sidebar")) {
+ my $content=sidebar_content($page);
+ if (defined $content && length $content) {
+ $template->param(sidebar => $content);
+ }
+ }
+} # }}}
+
+1