This is an example blog. Just copy the blog subdirectory into your wiki to quickly get started blogging with ikiwiki.
Or, run this command to set up a blog with ikiwiki.
% ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
Some additional configuration you might want to do:
Make sure to configure ikiwiki to generate RSS or Atom feeds.
Make sure you have the tag plugin enabled, and tag posts using it. An example of how to tag a post is: [[!tag tags/life]]
Enable the sidebar plugin to get a sidebar listing all the categories you've tagged posts with.
Enable the pagestats plugin to get a tag cloud to display on the index.
Enable the comments plugin and configure it to enable comments to posts to the blog:
comments_pagespec => 'blog/posts/* and !*/Discussion',