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Summary: Recipes for Wiki Administration and Administrators

  • Note: The last column counts the number of users who left comments on the *-Users page dedicated to the recipe.
NameSummaryCategories 
ActionLogMaintain a page log of wiki actions (2006-08-03 Stable)Administration Security  
AddNewlineMake wiki text end with a newline character, so the last line won't be marked as changed if text is added at the bottom (2006-01-29 )Editing, Administration  
AddUrlSchemesHow to get PmWiki to recognize additional URL schemes such as irc:, nntp:, etc. ( )Administration  
AdminHintsHints & suggestions for wiki administrators (n/a Documentation)Administration  
AlternateNamingSchemeUse other naming schemes for PmWiki pages ( )Administration Links PageNaming  
Attache-ImageSizerResize and manipulate uploaded images (2010-05-04 beta)Images Uploads Administration  
Auth-SMFIntegrate SMF Simple Machines Forum with PmWiki and use SMF user management for Pmwiki authentication (2008-06-27 new)Administration Forum Security  
AuthCASCentral Authentication Service(CAS) based authentication ( 2012-08-28 )Administration, Security  
AuthDNSPassword-less authentication based on the visitor's IP address or (dynamic) hostname (20110603 Beta)Administration, Security  
AuthPhpBB2Use phpBB2 user authentication for PmWiki page edit protection and author name (1.0 (05 March 2007) Stable)Administration, Security, Forum  
AuthPhpbb2SsoSingle Sign On for PmWiki and phpBB2 (080401 Stable)Administration, Security, Forum  
AuthPhpBB3Use phpBB3 user authentication for PmWiki ( )Administration, Security, Forum  
AuthPhpBBUsersAndGroupsUse phpBB3 user authentication and groups for PmWiki ( )Administration, Security, Forum  
AuthProfileLike AuthUser, but designed to store login information in profile pages (8/25/2012 Beta)Administration, Security  
AuthPunBBUse PunBB/FluxBB user authentication for PmWiki (2010-OCT-18 Draft)Administration, Security, Forum  
AuthUserFederatedOpenID and OAuth authentication extension for AuthUser (2012-11-03 In active use)Administration, Security  
AuthUserSignupAllow users to sign up themselves (with email verification) for authuser accounts (2010-04-14 Beta)Administration and Security  
AuthUserViaMicrosoftLDAPConfigure AuthUser with Microsoft AD LDAP ( )Administration  
AutoCreateCategoryAutomatically creates category pages for all tags in the page text (0.9 2008-11-27 BETA)Administration  
AutoCreatePagesAutomatically create pages based on the name of the current page. (2008-08-24 Alpha)Administration  
AutoGroupPagesHow to create a number of pages for a new group automatically (2006-08-05 stable)Editing, Administration  
AutomaticChangeSummaryAutomatic change summaries (2006-11-18 )Editing, Administration, WikipediaSuite  
AutoRestoreAutomatically restore pages after a set time interval (2007-02-15 Stable)Administration  
AutoThumberAutomatically resize uploaded images using ImageMagick (2008-04-05 beta)Images Uploads Administration  
BackupPagesAutomatically back up the wiki.d directory to a .zip file ( )Administration  
BackupWithRsyncHow to backup a PmWiki installation with the program `rsync`. (0.1 new)SystemTools, Administration  
BlockCrawlerRedirect web crawlers to different pages ( )Robots, Administration  
Blocklist( )  
Bloge-ShortUrlGet short URLs on your own site (2009-08-28 beta)Administration, Blog, CMS, Links  
BulkReplaceChange the content of many pages at a time ( just a rough draft)Editing Administration System Tools  
BundleA (proposed) community-supported bundle of commonly used cookbook recipes (0 proposal)Administration Bundles CMS System tools  
CaseCorrectionMakes PmWiki intelligently case-insensitive (2008-09-03 beta)Administration, Links, CMS, SystemTools  
CleanUpPurge deleted pages and attachments from the server directories (20111102 Beta)Administration, SystemTools, Uploads  
CleanUrlsEnable URLs that are shorter (without .php) and/or look like paths to wiki pages. (2007-04-11 )Administration  
CMSLikeMake PmWiki behave as a CMS by showing only the actions the current user is allowed to perform (0.32 )Administration, CMS  
CommentDbComment recipe - with pagination and RSS feed ( 1.0beta - 26 January 2006 )CMS, Blog, Administration, Comments  
CommentPageLinkHow to create a comment page ( )CMS, Administration, Comments  
CommentsComment addon - comments in separate files (14 April 2005 )Administration, Comments  
Comments-UseCases( )  
CompareVersionsDetermine if two versions of the same file are the same or how they differ ( )Administration  
CompressedPageStoreSave wiki pages/files in compressed (gzip) format (2007-05-23 )Administration, CustomPageStore  
CompressedUploadsModify scripts/upload.php to work with bzip2 archives ( )SystemTools, Administration  
config.phpconfig.php tips and tricks (0.0 )Administration  
ConvertHTMLConvert an HTML page to PmWiki markup (2011-02-16 beta)Administration, Markup, Wiki conversion  
ConvertTABLEHow to convert HTML pages with tables full of data into advanced tables (17 September 2005 )Editing, Administration, Tables  
Cookbook BasicsExplains what the cookbook and its recipes are. (2007-04-12 )Administration PmWiki Developer  
CreditsBlockCreate a "last edited by" block that includes everybody who had a hand in developing a page (0.3 - 3 January 2005 )Administration  
CSVActionAdds a ?action=csv capability to pmwiki to output tables as a CSV (20120318a stable)Administration, Publishing, Tables  
CSVIncludeInclude a CSV file as a table in your wiki page ( )Includes, Administration, Tables  
DeleteActionUse a separate password for deleting pages (2005-08-10 )Administration, GUI, Security  
Delta Bytes in Recent ChangesDisplay the number of bytes (characters) added or deleted to a page in RecentChanges. (24 February 2007 )Editing, Administration, WikipediaSuite  
DirectoryAndFilePermissionsExplains which directories and files need to be readable, writable, and servable by the webserver. (2006-12-05 Initial version)Security Administration  
DotsInLinksHow to enable dots in wiki links ( Experimental)Administration Links  
DynamicWikiTrailsDefine dynamic URL trails (2.2 - 24 March 2007) )Administration, WikiTrails  
Edit-Restricted ProfileAuthors can only edit their own pages in the Profiles group. (2007-07-24 )Administration  
EditTemplatesSpecify a wiki page or pages to use as a template when a new page is created. (N/a Stable) Administration Editing  
EProtectEmail obfuscation (7 April 2005 )Security, Administration, Spam  
ExpandingMenuA sidebar menu that supports nested lists where the nested items are displayed only if the user is in that group ( )Layout, Administration  
ExpandingMenusHow to create a sidebar menu which expands to show sublevel (group) items using conditional markup only ( Stable)Layout Menus Administration  
ExpireDiffHow to remove a page's history ( )Administration  
ExportHTMLExport PmWiki pages as "static" HTML pages (2007-01-12 )SystemTools, Administration  
ExternAuthUse authentication mechanisms external to PmWiki ( 0.1, 3 June 2006 )Administration, Security  
Extra Words In Title Tag RecipeThis is a really simple recipe for adding extra words to the title tag in the head. (1.0.20090707 Functional, tested on 2.2.0-beta67)CMS | Administration  
FarmSideBarShare a sidebar among several fields in a farm ( )WikiFarms, Administration  
FastCacheCaches complete wiki pages for very fast retrieval (2009-01-22 beta)Administration, CMS  
FastSearchhow to improve the speed of searches and categories on large sites with slow machines (1.3 - 2006-8-18 )Searching, Administration, CustomPageStore  
FixShortSessionsHow to fix short sessions so you aren't prompted frequently for a password ( )Administration, Security Passwords  
FlickrHow to integrate Flickr into a PmWiki page ( )Integration, Administration, Images  
ForumProvide a simple forum ( )Administration  
FoxTextReplacereplace text strings on multiple pages (2008-12-08 experimental)Fox Administration Editing  
GetRidOfMainHow to get rid of "Main" group, i.e. all pages in "Main" are accessible and accessed directly in the wiki root (1.0 )Administration Links  
GlobalOperationsHow to apply an operation to every page of a wiki ( )Administration  
GoogleAnalyticsAdd Google Analytics tracking code to wiki pages (2007-03-21 Stable)Administration, Google  
GraphVizSitemapProvide a GraphViz format for sitemap (2009-05-08 alpha)Administration, Menus, Publishing  
GrepRCSearch the RecentChanges entries similarly to a pagelist (2010-02-05 Beta)Administration Editing  
GroupHomePageChangeHow to rename the group's starting page, i.e., be different than the default "HomePage". (N/A )Administration  
HandleUnknownMarkupsHow to suppress unknown markup, instead of having it display ( )Administration  
HowToMakeATabbedSkinHow to make a tabbed skin (n/a )Layout, Administration  
HtpasswdFormForm based management of users and passwords using .htpasswd/.htgroup files (2008-10-27 Stable)Administration Security  
InfoBoxHow to create Bubblehelp infoboxes, as seen in knoppix.org (2.2.2 Stable, Active)Administration, Layout  
InlineDiffShows the difference between 2 versions by highlighting the changes in markup on word level. (2010-02-03 stable)Administration, Editing  
InstallOnIISHow to install PmWiki on IIS v6 or v7 (2.2 living document)  
InstallOnWindowsHomeServerInstall PmWiki on Wondows Server 2003 or Windows Home Server and IIS6 (2009-12-20 Living document)Administration Install System tools  
ISO8859MakePageNamePatternsISO 8859 character conversion for url page names; strip accents etc. from characters for easier readable page names (2007-11-20 )Administration Links International PageNaming  
Limit Diffs per pagePaginate the "diff" output (when viewing a page history, limit the number of displayed revisions at once) (20100217 Stable/Beta)Administration Editing  
LimitNewPagesInWikiGroupsHow to limit the creation of new pages in your wiki group (2007-02-27 )Administration  
LimitWikiGroupsHow to limit the names or number of groups in your wiki ( )Administration  
Login LogoutHow to log out after logging in (1.0 Q&A)Security, Administration  
MacOSXTips for PmWiki configuration on a MacOS X server ( )Administration  
MailmanAuthUse an external mailing list for PmWiki authentication (2008-09-02 beta)Administration, Security, SystemTools  
MainGroupChangeHow to change the Main (startup) group ( )Administration  
MemberMgmtAdvanced member management (using ZAP and AuthUser). Allows self registration, logins, groups, site customization, and more! (Latest ZAP version. Beta (relies on latest Beta version of PmWiki))CMS Security Administration  
ModesConceptA place to remember thoughts/ideas related to using different modes ( )Administration, Layout  
Module GuidelinesGuidelines for creating, distributing, and maintaining a recipe for the Cookbook. (2007-04-14 )Administration, CustomPageStore, PmWiki Developer  
MovePageMove and copy wiki pages (2009-08-17 beta)Administration, Editing, Page naming, System tools  
NetstreamsCMSA CMS (Content Management System) extension for pmwiki features different page-types (article, blog, comment issues), separation of content and layout, basic workflow capabilities, content-type based authentication and wysiwyg editing. (009bX Experimental)CMS Administration Blog Comments  
NetstreamsMenuA desktop-application like menu for authors and admins (009bX beta)CMS Administration Menu Skins  
NewGroupWarningDisplay a warning when a user is creating a page in a non-existing wiki group. (2008-01-29 )Editing, Links, Administration  
NewPageBoxHow to provide a form or box to allow users to create new pages (deprecated in favour of NewPageBoxPlus) (4 January 2006 Deprecated)CMS, Forms, Editing, Administration  
NumberOfArticlesReport the number of articles in a wiki (0.3 - 18 September 2006 )Administration, Includes, Obsolete  
OneGroupForAllConfine all users to one group, named other than Main (9 June 2005 )Administration  
OpenUrlsAutomatically create URL Path for use with EnablePathInfo. (1.0 )Administration Ben Wilson Maintained  
OutputCompressionUse zlib output compression to make pages load faster (8 May 2005 )Administration, SystemTools  
PageActionChange the page actions on a page-by-page basis (2010-09-02 new)Administration Links  
PageAtticHow to store backup files of deleted pages in a separate directory (2011-10-26 )Administration, CustomPageStore  
PageConfigAllow basic administrative configuration from a page (2008-06-01 Alpha)Administration  
PageCreatoradds page creator (original author) to be stored as a page attribute (2008-02-24 )Administration Security  
PageDiffSizeAdd an accurate count of characters added & removed to each edit summary (2010-06-17 beta)Administration, Editing  
PageGenerationTimeDisplay page generation time (2004-05-05 )Administration  
PageListWikiTrailEnable a WikiTrails markup to use a (:pagelist ... :) directive (November 2005 )Administration, WikiTrails, PageList  
PageRegenerateMake PmWiki regenerate a page, as if someone had done an edit+save sequence. (1.0 Stable)Administration  
PageTopStoreA PageStore alternative which doesn't mangle page contents when viewed outside PmWiki (2009-11-27 beta)Administration, CustomPageStore  
PerformanceComparisonsPage to share site setups and performance ( )SystemTools, Administration  
Per-Group and Per-Page Customizations in config.phpPlace your per-group and per-page customizations in config.php rather than in separate PHP scripts. (Still a draft Quo)Administration  
PerGroupSubDirectoriesSubdivide wiki.d into subdirectories according to page group (n/a )Administration, CustomPageStore  
PersistentLoginLogin form with "Remember me/Stay signed in" option (20091122 Beta)Administration Security  
phpalertuse popup for debugging (2.3 Working)Administration Debugging  
PhpBB2IntegrationIntegration options for PmWiki and phpBB2 forums (plus others) (1.0 Stable)Administration  
PHPExecuteLets you execute PHP-Code in any page. (0.9 2008-12-07 BETA)Administration Markup  
PHP files managementPHP file manager ( )SystemTools, Administration  
PMWCompatAllow PHP 5 commands to be used in PHP 4 (1.0 Working)Administration  
PmWiki2PDF-v2Generate a PDF (2011-02-15 Stable)PDF, Publishing, Administration  
PmWiki as a CMSHow to use PmWiki as a CMS ( )Administration, CMS  
PowerToolsmarkup expressions for multi page processing incl. plist, pagelist, rename, pagecount, wordcount, trail, serialname, serial, newticket, sumdata, allptvs, random (2011-03-08 new)Markup Administration Markup Expressions PageVariables WikiTrails Menus  
PresenceAwarenessUser-based authentication, a list of online logged users, tools to register and manage users and send posts via Jabber (1.1 )Administration, Security, Ajax  
PreviewFirstHow to get the page preview to appear before the edit box ( )Administration, Editing, Layout  
PropertiesHow to have your own set of properties/variables in wiki pages ( )Administration  
PublishWikiTrailProvide the ability to publish the pages of a wiki trail as a single web page, formatted for printing (2.0.6 )Publishing, Administration, WikiTrails  
RandomQuoteWikiHow to display a random quote from a list stored in a PmWiki page ( )Administration  
RandomTitleHow to make PmWiki have random titles in the browser title bar ( )Administration  
RecentChangesDeletionAllow authors to delete RecentChanges pages, there-by making it possible for authors to delete wiki groups. (2008-01-30 )Editing, Administration  
RecentChangesExcerptHow to display a list of last n RecentChanges (1 )Layout, GUI  
Recent Uploads LogList all uploaded files in RecentUploads pages (2009-09-03 )Uploads, Administration  
RecipeCheckCheck for new versions of recipes on pmwiki.org (2007-04-17 Stable)Administration, System tools  
RedirectMapcreate short urls for redirects using mapping similar to intermap (2008-07-11 new)Administration Links  
RequireAuthorRequire author names when saving pages ( Documentation)Administration, Security  
RequireCategoryRequire categories to be entered (2005-09-16 )Editing, Administration  
RequireSummaryRequire a summary to be entered (2006-07-19 )Administration  
RestorePmWikiRestore or move a PmWiki installation from an archive ( )Administration  
RunningPmwikiOnMageiaLinuxRunning Pmwiki on Mageia Linux ( )Administration  
SearchResultsHow to change the way search results are displayed ( )Searching, PageList, Administration  
SecureAttachmentsSecurity issues for attachments (n/a )Administration, Security, Uploads  
SEOA set of best practices to Search Engine Optimization ( )Administration, Links, Layout, CMS  
SideBarNameChangeHow to change the name of the SideBar ( )Administration  
SideNotesCreate "Side Notes" for jotting down notes ( )Editing, Administration  
Simple Discuss LinkAdd an action (or sidebar) link that leads to and from a -Talk page. (2007-07-25 Initial Release)Administration CMS Menus  
SimplePageCounterA simple page counter of visits to each page (2009-02-05 )Administration  
SimpleSiteMapEasy site map using only core PmWiki features (1.0 Stable)Administration, Hierarchy, Menus, PageList  
SimultaneousEditsEnable simultaneous edits for platforms without popen or diff3 ( Stable)Administration Windows  
SingleSign-OnUse Windows-Logon for Authentication on pmwiki (1 Stable)Administration, Security  
SisterlyLets wikis on a farm access each other as easily as accessing other pages within a wiki (2008-10-14 beta)WikiFarms, Administration, CustomPageStore  
SiteInformationHow to quickly see the settings for a site without having to look at the contents of the local configuration file (2011-12-02 )Administration  
SitemapperAdds a dynamically generated sitemap to PmWiki. (0.5.2 (2008-09-10) beta)Menus, WikiTrails, Administration, Hierarchy  
SMFUserIntergrationIntegrates Simple Machines Users into PmWiki (0.3 (June 18, 2007) Testing)Authentication, Administration  
SourceForgeServersInstall PmWiki in SourceForge.net's project web space. (1 Outdated)Administration, Security, CustomPageStore  
SpamFiltersAutomatic blocking of some spambots (20121020 beta)Administration, Security, Spam  
SpeedOptimizationsHow to tune PmWiki and its environment for speed (N/A )Administration  
SQLite PageStore classStore wiki pages in an SQLite database file (20110718 Beta)Administration, Data, SystemTools, CustomPageStore  
StopwatchUse the $StopWatch function to measure PmWiki performance. (2007-04-17 )Administration  
StoredAuthNameHow to set a stored author name to an authenticated user (2011-08-05 Stable)Administration, Security  
SuperscriptLineSpacingHow to fix line spacing of superscripts and subscripts ( )Layout, Administration  
SurveyYourAccessPermissionsGenerates a list of wikipages with special access permissions. (1.0 stable)Administration  
SwitchToSSLModeHow to force PmWiki to use SSL (2007-06-12 Beta)Administration Security  
SysDiffUse an external "diff" program to speed saving of long pages. (2007-03-21 Stable)Administration  
SystemLimitsWays to increase various memory and filesize limits for a PmWiki installation (N/A )SystemTools, Administration, Uploads  
TagsHow to have tags (like Flickr) ( )Searching, Administration, CMS, Blog, Links  
TimeZonesDisplay all dates and times in user selectable timezone and format (2007-10-28d alpha)Page variables, Editing, Administration  
TitleMarkupsetting a page title with the first title markup, subsequent titles (from included pages etc.) are ignored (2008-01-27 )Administration Markup  
TitleSpacedHow to have spaces in a page title (n/a )Administration, PageNaming  
TotalCounterA statistic counter - counts page views, users, languages, browsers, operating systems, referers, locations and web bots (2010-02-08 - v1.9.2 )CMS, Administration, SystemTools  
TrackChangesWays to more easily detect and verify all recent edits (N/A )Administration, Editing, Security  
TrackingMenuA sidebar menu tracking the current page ( )Layout, Administration  
Trash"safely delete" pages so that they can be restored and listed with pagelists ( )Administration, WikiFarms  
TreeMenuProvides additional markup for creating a tree-like menu ( )Layout, Administration  
UpgradeBashScriptA script that tries to automate the process of upgrading the wiki. (1.1 Maintained)Administration, SystemTools  
UploadPicCompressionCompress uploaded image files (7 March 2005 )Images, Administration  
UseAlternativeConfigurationsGet the base URL from the server ( )Administration  
UserAdminAuthUser account self-registration and management (2011-04-11 alpha)Administration, Security  
UserAuthUser-based authorization (0.70, 25 January 2006 )Administration, Security  
UserAuth2A user-based permission granting and authentication module (2.2.3 (2010-03-03) released, stable, maintained (tested with Pmwiki 2.1.11, 2.2.0-beta45))Administration, Security  
UserAuthDevelUser-based authorization Development Page ( )Administration, Security  
UserLastActionRecord the last action for each user so that stale accounts can be detected (2007-03-25 stable)Administration Security  
VisitorsLoggingHow to have a clean log of visitor activity for each field of a farm ( )Administration, WikiFarms  
VisitorsLogging1337Log all activity on your wiki to a text file in a configurable way. (1.3.37 stable (works for me))Administration  
WatchThatPageTips for how to use http://www.watchthatpage.com/ with the Recent Changes page. ( Documentation)Administration  
WbBackupBackup dynamic wiki data (wiki.d, cookbook, ...) (2008-01-22 Stable)Administration  
WebAdminPHP file manager, works without ftp client (1.1, 9 November 2006 )  
WebServerSecurityHow to use ".htaccess" to make PmWiki more secure ( )Security, Administration  
WhosWhereShow Who's Where on your wiki (2009-03-08 Experimental)Data Security Administration  
WikiBoxAllow posting to and reading from PmWiki via email (2008-08-17 Alpha)System Tools Markup Administration  
WikiFarmStepByStepStep by step instruction on how to set up PmWiki as a WikiFarm from scratch ( )Administration, WikiFarms  
WikiRefactoringSteps and methods to refactor and re-organize a wiki ( )wiki, Refactoring, Administration, Editing  
WikiShWiki-based script language roughly emulating linux shell tools (2010-06-09 Beta)Markup Searching Includes SystemTools Administration Files Security Markup Expressions Forms  
Word2PmWikiWord macro to convert a Word document to PmWiki syntax (0.9, 20 December 2006 Beta)Administration Windows OfficeIntegration  
WordWrapPreformattedTextPrevent long lines of text stretching beyond the window edge ( )Administration  
XMLPageStoreStore pages as XML files (2012-12-27 Beta)Administration, CustomPageStore  
  • Note: The last column counts the number of users who left comments on the *-Users page dedicated to the recipe.
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