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Skins

PmWiki makes it easy to develop and change "Skins" which alter the look and feel of the pages. You can preview available skins in the Skins Gallery in a reduced size or see how a test page looks with some assorted markup. (The old test page is still available, and here's another one.)

If you've developed a skin for PmWiki that you'd like to share, feel free to add it to the Cookbook here, and also on the Skins Gallery! After it's uploaded, Pm will generally configure pmwiki.org to display pages in the new skin. Be sure to look at skin guidelines for suggestions about creating skins that others can use.

Skin List (for skin trail)

• A Bit Modern ..... A PmWiki port of the oswd.org template; left menu, 800 pixels wide
• Alalike ..... Loosely based on the look of alistapart.com; 3-columns
• Barthelme ..... A minimalist skin where white space and margins can show culture and aestheticism
• BeeblebroxNetGila
• BitterLemon ..... Tabless, right side-bar skin based on Bitter Lemon template by Arcsin
• BlueBerry ..... css and xhtml conform blue skin
• BlueFur ..... Kind of a 60's rounded look
• Bluehead ..... Elegant white skin with blue header
• Blues ..... This skin has the blues
• Blog ..... Use this relatively low-frills skin to make your wiki, blog, or non-blog site visitor-friendly.
• Blix ..... 2-Column Wordpress port, provides a top-level tab navigation, and right-sidebar. Autumn and Spring color sets.
• Bonny ..... A fully CSS-driven skin, 2 or 3-column layout, with variations in layout and appearance, and optional CMS mode.
• Bs-001 ..... A Dark-Themed skin.
• Cinnamon ..... Clean skin with red, brown and gray highlights.
• DropDown ..... Uses a Dropdownmenu for the sidebar and has tabs for easy editing
• Drop Shadow .... Simple blog-oriented, fixed-width, 2 column skin, with upper tab-navigation, and additional color-themes. Based on the WordPress Drop Shadow skin.
• Enlighten .... Simple blog-oriented, fixed- or fluid width, 2 column skin, with upper tab-navigation, and additional color-themes.
• Equilibrium ..... Equilibrium is a blog-oriented skin, with a focus on simplicity. Along with the typical sidebar and top navigation tabs, this skin presents blog summaries in column oriented, rather than the traditional vertical layout. Using BlogIt with the skin also allows an image to be displayed on the blog summary.
• Evolver ..... Greenish skin based on an OSWD design that integrates usage of, but does not require, UserAuth and CMSLike
• FixFlow ..... As Gemini, plus fixed or flowing sidebar, left or right
• Flexi ..... Based entirely on CSS, highly configurable, title menu etc. based on wiki-files
• Gemini ..... Highly configurable with many colour-schemes, plus optional rightbar
• Glossy Hue ..... 2-column Wordpress port, with a right-sidebar, top level tabbed navigation, and a 3-section footer.
• Grayness ..... This is a blue and gray skin that is easy on the eyes in most lighting conditions.
• Grease ..... Minimalistic skin inspired by the Dive Into Greasemonkey online book.
• Green .... Tableless skin in green.
• JH
• JHMP
• Lean ..... A clean, minimalist skin that was created with usability in mind
• Leaves ..... A three-column skin using orange, gray and white, adapted from a SmallPark template
• Lens ..... Extremely and easily configurable, accessible, and supports ViewModes
• Light ..... A more configurable CMS-friendly derivative of Lean Skin with many changes
• Lines ..... Created for use in a CMS-like environment, thus edit links are barely visible
• Lt9602 ..... A skin inspired by System 960 and Lean(Skin) from this page.
• Marble ..... This skin has a dark marble background with a semi-transparent appearance for the wiki content
• Marinee ..... aka "Green Marinee", a port of the highly popular Green Marinee skin for Wordpress.
• Monobook ..... Makes PmWiki look like MediaWiki/Wikipedia
• Maguila ... Tableless skin for PmWiki based on design by Haran from OSWD.
• Netstreams
• Neutral ..... Designed to be usable by most people for any wiki use
• NewsPaper ... A newspaper-like skin
• NotSoSimple ..... Based on the excellent Simple Skin, but with Sidebar and 900px wide
• Not2Simple ..... Based on the NotSoSimple, but with CSS based multi level popup menu Sidebar
• Parchment ..... This is a tan skin with brown hilights and mimics aged papyrus for its background.
• PhotoGallery ..... is designed around the presentation of pictures, images, and photographs.
• PhpNet ..... Roughly the look of www.PHP.net
• Plain ..... Emphasizes content with an easy-to-read default font size and no graphical frills.
• PlainBlog ... A blog-oriented skin that emphasizes content, with an easy-to-read default font size and no graphical frills
• PmWiki-Divs ..... Experimental tableless version of the default PmWiki skin.
• PmWiki V1 ..... skin that was distributed with PmWiki v1 and PmWiki v2 beta series
• PmWiki2Bars ..... An extension of the default PmWiki skin to add another side bar on the right side.
• Recurve ..... A tab driven skin for PmWiki
• RedBerry .... dark read, gray skin, based on blueberry
• Rose Trellis ..... A clean, fast-loading skin designed for single-author sites
• Rounded ..... A blue and white skin with rounded corners, great for blogs.
• Simpla ..... A clean, minimalist skin. Ported from the Simpla Wordpress theme.
• Simple ..... A very simple but good-looking skin.
• SimpleTab ..... A K2 inspired skin with menu tabs
• Sinorca ..... A nice, tableless skin
• Skidoo ..... Provides a simple, low distraction interface provides rapid access to the information you need. I use it for the various wiki's I use to take notes on a daily basis.
• Skittlish .... Skittlish allows site visitors to choose between fixed and fluid width, and between seven candy-inspired colours for the sidebar. Full support for the BlogIt blogging engine.
• Soma ..... A VERY colorful skin.
• SomethingCorporate ..... Functional CSS skin
• ssofb_joomla_rhuk ..... CSS Skin based on the Joomla rhuk_milkyway template.
• Stripped ..... A skin for debugging HTML errors
• Technobabble ..... A two column layout based on a idea of dreamLogic
• TextPattern ..... Inspired by TextPattern. Designed for smaller documents such as poetry, short stories, etc. Very elegant.
• Triad ..... A three column layout, highly configurable.
• Useless Tuesday ..... Dark blue tones dominate this rather narrow skin
• WikiLove ..... Modification of default skin with a nice clean look.
• Yaml132Skin ..... Pure CSS skin based on the YAML.de CSS framework
• YAMLForth ..... another pure CSS 2-column skin based on the YAML CSS Framework version 3.2

Other PmWiki skins (some unmaintained):

• Marathon
• Neat
• Notebook
• Notebook-NT ..... A tableless version of the default PmWiki skin.
• Notebook2
• Planner ..... Skin intended to be used as a daily planner. No download file.
• Pukka Float ..... Now deprecated in favour of Lens.
• SchlaeferTwo

Skins hosted elsewhere:

• Warm Autumn(approve links)

To find skins for PmWiki v.1a, see Cookbook-V1.Skins. If you'd like to use one of them with PmWiki 2, most of them will probably work fine with a little modification and help from Changes from PmWiki 1.

The following part is included from PmWiki.LayoutBasics:

Modifying the "pmwiki" skin

The pmwiki skin (i.e., pub/skins/pmwiki/) is part of the PmWiki installation, so any changes you make to these files are likely to be overwritten when you upgrade. Thus, instead of editing the files directly, you should start by making a copy of the files in pub/skins/pmwiki/ into a new skins directory (say, pub/skins/xyzskin/).

Once you've made a copy of the skin directory, you can then edit the .tmpl and other files in that directory. You then tell PmWiki to use the skin in pub/skins/xyzskin by setting

in your local/config.php file.

Discussion: see Skins-Talk