The [[ikiwiki/directive/listdirectives]]` directive doesn't register a link between the page and the subpages. This is a problem because then the [[ikiwiki/directive/orphans]] directive then marks the directives as orphans... Maybe it is a but with the orphans directive however... A simple workaround is to exclude those files from the orphans call... --[[anarcat]] > There's a distinction between wikilinks (matched by `link()`, > `backlink()` etc.) and other constructs that produce a > hyperlink. Some directives count as a wikilink (like `tag`) > but many don't (notably `inline`, `map`, `listdirectives`, > and `orphans` itself). As documented in > [[ikiwiki/directive/orphans]], orphans will tend to list > pages that are only matched by inlines/maps, too. > > The rule of thumb seems to be that a link to a particular > page counts as a wikilink, but a directive that lists > pages matching some pattern does not; so I think > `listdirectives` is working as intended here. > `orphans` itself obviously shouldn't count as a wikilink, > because that would defeat the point of it :-) > > Anything that uses a [[ikiwiki/pagespec]] to generate links, > like `inline` and `map`, can't generate wikilinks, because > wikilinks are gathered during the scan phase, and pagespecs > can't be matched until after the scan phase has finished > (otherwise, it'd be non-deterministic whether all wikilinks > had been seen yet, and `link()` in pagespecs wouldn't work > predictably). > > I suggest just using something like: > > \[[!orphans pages="* and !blog/* and !ikiwiki/directive/*"]] > > This wiki's example of listing [[plugins/orphans]] has a > more elaborate pagespec, which avoids bugs, todo items etc. > as well. > > --[[smcv]]