Mark, That is possibly the clearest description so far. We need to document this a bit better.
I admit I am no expert in this yet, and I hope if what I state is incorrect someone will contradict me. I would add to your points, as I understand it, that if installed in node apparently they are available to all wikis within Node such as under Bob, but installed by Drag and drop they become tiddlers installed in the specific wiki. You can see that except for the exceptions Mark mentions, drag and drop can be an intentional approach to installing a different set of plugins in different wikis. Despite this I am not sure what happens to to make correctly installed server plugins visible in the wikis below. Regards Tony On Friday, 4 September 2020 00:56:10 UTC+10, Mark S. wrote: > > I think it means there some plugins meant for node.js that need to be > installed in a directory (maybe because they need to communicate directly > with the operating system). > > For most 3rd party plugins I think you're OK with d&d. But if you have a > plugin that needs to directly communicate with the OS or over the internet, > then you will need to install local plugin directories. > > If you have official plugins, then you can "install" them just by listing > them in the tiddlywiki.info file. You do not want there to also be a > drag-and-drop plugin version of them because the d&d version will block the > latest copy of the official version. The idea is that your official plugins > will automatically be upgraded on node.js when you upgrade your tiddlywiki > installation on node.js. > > Having said that, if you're using code-mirror, and your drag-and-drop > version seems to be working, maybe just stick with it for the current > generation. It seemed to me that there was some internal inconsistency with > the next gen of code-mirror. Whenever I tried to do the official install, > things broke. But that's just my thinking. > > > Good luck! > > > > On Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 5:49:25 AM UTC-7, demon...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> So I have my nodejs server up and running, but I did not want to start an >> entirely new wiki, instead I wanted to import my old wiki and continue >> using that. I imported it via just drag and dropping my .html file onto the >> newly made empty wiki. It imported everything just fine and everything >> seems to work ok. >> >> However, I noticed that installing plugins in nodejs >> <https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Installing%2520custom%2520plugins%2520on%2520Node.js.html>server >> >> should *not *be done by drag and dropping them as individual tiddlers >> but instead you should make plugins folder in the server and put them there >> and tell in the tiddlywiki.info file what plugins to load. It is said >> that: >> >> > Note that including a plugin as an ordinary tiddler (e.g. by dragging >> and dropping a plugin into the browser) will result in the plugin only >> being active in the browser, and not available under Node.js. >> >> So what does this *actually *mean? All my old plugins were installed >> this way when I was not using nodejs. They still seem to work fine. Should >> I remove all my plugins installed with drag and drop and install them >> manually as per the link? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a444f06e-7ec5-48ea-9c8f-2594681028eao%40googlegroups.com.
