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Backlinks

Question

• How do I list the pages that link (backlink) to a certain page?
• How do I find the pages that are linked to the current one?
• How do I implement Wikipedia's "What links here" feature?

Description

PmWiki implements backlinks using the pagelist directive and its link= parameter. Here's an example showing the first ten pages pmwiki.org that link to the main Cookbook page:

(:pagelist link=Cookbook.Cookbook count=10:)
...

Here's a way to create a simple list of links back to the current page:

(:pagelist link={*$FullName} fmt=simple:)

Here is a link you could include in your SideBar or as an "action link" in one of your skin's menus, as done on this site with the Gemini, FixFlow, and Lens skins. You can get a list of pages linking to the current page with just a click:

* [[{*$Name}?action=search&q=link={*$FullName} | $[Backlinks] ]]

To include such a link in a skin template which does not use wiki pages for configuration of action links, you can add the following code to the skin template:

Notes

See Also

• PmWiki.PageLists
• MarkupMasterIndex#PageLists

Contributors

• Hagan Fox
• HansB

Comments

See discussion at Backlinks-Talk