I've been looking back over ShadowTiddlers <http://tiddlywiki.com/#ShadowTiddlers> again in the official TW5 docs, trying to get a handle on all of this. It says *"ShadowTiddlers <http://tiddlywiki.com/#ShadowTiddlers> are tiddlers that are loaded from within Plugins <http://tiddlywiki.com/#Plugins>."* Looking at the Plugins tiddler in the docs, I see a list of available plugins. From the description of *"Plugins are used to distribute optional, custom components for TiddlyWiki <http://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki>."* I assume I have to install a plugin myself for it to work, right? A bit like the extensions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Extensions> for MediaWiki. As far as I know, I haven't installed any plugins for TW5. Haha, I wouldn't even know how to yet! So where do these Shadow Tiddlers come from, from which plugins, if I haven't installed any plugins yet?
I see a huge list of *"current shadow tiddlers"* listed on the ShadowTiddlers tiddler in the official docs. At first I assumed that these are only the shadow tiddlers for plugins which are installed in the TW wiki instance at tiddlywiki.com, but then I copied the <$list> filter from the code on that page, into a new tiddler in my own instance of TW5 and got the same results (or near enough, a huge long list) as what I saw on tiddlywiki.com. So now I'm even more confused: 1. The docs say that shadow tiddlers come from plugins. 2. I haven't installed any plugins. 3. I have shadow tiddlers anyway. Can anyone explain this to me better, and maybe we can get the official docs updated, or maybe there needs to be a "TiddlyWiki for Dummies" book. I saw *@Eric*'s IndieGoGo page <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-tiddlywiki-the-missing-manual#/story>, but that campaign had closed long before I had even heard about TiddlyWiki. Not that I could have afforded to contribute much, anyway, sorry. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/be9563c7-45ad-472e-9ad4-0f275c59b71e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
