Progress on the plugin is proceeding apace. In fact, the link in the last sentence is a major milestone – for the first time, I can use what ikiwiki calls wikilinks. What would happen previously is that ikiwiki would stick some raw HTML into an org file when it thought it saw a wikilink. Org wouldn't know what to do with this, and would escape the HTML so that it would show up in the browser. This is the reason that I couldn't include images in the posts – they would get interpreted as wikilinks and then org would choke on the resulting HTML.

I'm not sure that inserting local picture files works yet, but inserting pictures from other servers works okay. For example, here is a picture of me standing at the US/Mexico border: and here is me after hiking to the US/Canada border:

I think I have ironed out most of the kinks that caused things to hang previously when updating the site, but more testing is certainly needed. Things that remain on my todo list include figuring out why it doesn't work when the emacs doing the compiling is daemonized, and testing whether locally hosted pictures work.

Any feedback would be appreciated!