Simon

Jack of all trades ...

Features I use

the documentation to read if you're going to read documentation

• PmWiki.Available actions All PmWiki page actions (?action=)
• PmWiki.Blocklist Blocking IP addresses, phrases, and expressions to counteract spam and vandalism.
• PmWiki.Categories Categories are a way to organize and find related pages
• PmWiki.Comment markup various forms of comments and how to achieve them for wiki pages
• PmWiki.Conditional markup The if directive allows portions of a page to be included or excluded from rendering
• PmWiki.Deleting pages ($DeleteKeyPattern) Page maintenance
• PmWiki.File permissions PmWiki's settings for file and directory permissions in a typical Unix environment
• PmWiki.How To Get Assistance How to seek help and assistance and report PmWiki bugs
• PmWiki.Include other pages ($ImgExtPattern) Include contents from other PmWiki pages
• PmWiki.Notify Allows a site administrator to configure PmWiki to send email messages whenever pages are changed on the wiki site
• PmWiki.Page text variables Page variables automatically made available through natural or explicit page markup
• PmWiki.Security Resources for securing your PmWiki installation
• PmWiki.Site analyzer Analyse PmWiki security and software versions
• PmWiki.Analyze results Instructions and possible responses from using the Site Analyzer
• PmWiki.Troubleshooting Advice for troubleshooting an installation
• PmWiki.Url approvals and ($WhiteUrlPatterns) Require approval of Url links
• PmWiki.Uploads Allow authors to upload files, also known as page attachments
• PmWiki.Uploads admin ($UploadExts) Administration of PmWiki uploads
• PmWiki.Upload variables ($UploadNameChars) variables used for uploads/attachments
• PmWiki.Wiki trails Trails from lists items from a single page
• $EnablePostAuthorRequired

Trying out, but not yet got to work

• Cookbook.Clean Urls Enable URLs that are shorter (without .php) and/or look like paths to wiki pages.
• Cookbook.Web admin PHP file manager, works without ftp client
• Cookbook.Wiki gallery WikiGallery - automatic easy to use fully integrated gallery extension for PmWiki Cookbook.Wiki gallery-Talk
• Wiki Farms Running multiple wikis from a single installation
• Cookbook:Total counter A statistic counter - counts page views, users, languages, browsers, operating systems, referers, locations and web bots (warning: not suitable for production systens)

Search here if all else fails

• http://groups.google.com/group/pmwiki-users
• http://groups.google.com/group/pmwiki-devel

Vaguely relevant

• Codehaus Manifesto
• Agile manifesto
• GNU manifesto

Knows enough to be ...

Cookbook customisations used

• Cookbook:Add image type Add new image type extension
• Cookbook:Add newline Make wiki text end with a newline character, so the last line won't be marked as changed if text is added at the bottom
• Cookbook:All group header How to create a page that appears as a header (or footer) for all pages in all groups
• Cookbook:Attach links Get Attach: links to display by default without the "Attach:" prefix
• Cookbook:Attachtable Actions to rename, delete & restore deleted attachments, as well as an attachlist replacement to use those actions, show file types and list attachment references.
• Cookbook:Attachlist enhanced How to list missing or orphaned attachments.
• Cookbook:Case correction Makes PmWiki intelligently case-insensitive
• Cookbook:De Ob Mail Unobtrusive e-mail link (de)obfuscator
• Cookbook:Edit templates ($EditTemplatesFmt) Specify a wiki page or pages to use as a template when a new page is created.
• Cookbook:Excel paste (Cookbook:Tabtable-jt) Copy and paste spreadsheet tables (e.g., from Excel) into pages (Support embedded line feeds, trim spaces and add prior patch (make first row a header))
• Cookbook:External links Configure external links to open in a new window, have a "tooltip title", or use other CSS classes
• Cookbook:Favicon Add a Favicon to your website
• Cookbook:Image map Directive to create image maps and image toolbars
• Cookbook:Include file How to include an external file (from the same file system)
• Cookbook:Include Url Include html pages into PmWiki 2.x pages
• Cookbook:Inline diff Shows the difference between 2 versions by highlighting the changes in markup on word level.
• Cookbook:Limit diffs per page Paginate the "diff" output (when viewing a page history, limit the number of displayed revisions at once)
• Cookbook:Link icons Add icons to your links according to their extensions.
• Cookbook:Markup extensions Adds a range of character, start of line, and link markup extensions
• Cookbook:More custom page variables Additional custom page variables for use in pages, forms, includes and conditional markup.
• Cookbook:New group box Input box to create new wiki groups from predefined template pages
• Cookbook:New page box plus Adds customisable box plus button form for page creation
• Cookbook:NotsavedWarning Warn authors when they move away from a page without saving it. Optionally request an edit summary or an author name.
• Cookbook:Pagelist Auth List Short Display, in brief format, the permissions settings for pages that have permissions set.
• Cookbook:Pagelist Recent Changes A recent changes page created using Page lists
• Cookbook:Pagelist Site Map Create a sitemap using the page list directive
• Cookbook:Page Table of Contents Adds a clickable table of contents to a page
• Cookbook:Per Group Sub Directories Subdivide wiki.d into subdirectories according to page group
• Cookbook:Random quote Insert random quotes or markup into a page
• Cookbook:Recent uploads log List all uploaded files in RecentUploads pages
• Cookbook:Recipe check Check for new versions of recipes on pmwiki.org
• Cookbook:Rowspan in simple tables Markup to add a rowspan attribute on a simple table cell
• Cookbook:Skin change change skin via query or cookie setting
• Cookbook:Source block Source code syntax highlighter for PmWiki 2.x using GeSHi
• Cookbook:ROS patterns ($ROSPatterns) How to use $ROSPatterns (Replace On Save Patterns)?
• Cookbook:Search patterns ($SearchPatterns) Q & A's on search patterns
• Cookbook:Shared pages and groups Share selected pages among several wikis on a common server, as in WikiFarms
• Cookbook:Thumb list Cookbook:Thumb list-Talk A thumbnail picture gallery for PmWiki
• Cookbook:Toggle Adds links or buttons for toggling (hiding/showing) div sections and objects
• Cookbook:Upload form Alternative file upload form using (:input file:)
• Cookbook:Watch lists Track the most recent changes to a list of pages
• Cookbook:Wiki footer Website page footer

My weapons

• WeaverSlave
• Win merge source file and directory comparison
• TopStyleLite CSS editor
• FileZilla ftp client and server
• Putty secure telnet
• OpenOffice.org office suite
• Opera, Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird browsers and email

My CSS suggestions and customisations

When creating a skin simply include the original pmwiki CSS file, this ensures you benefit from pmwiki upgrades, viz

 @import url("/pmwiki/pub/skins/pmwiki/pmwiki.css");

Use CSS to suppress and change some elements of the page when printing (latterly pmwiki also uses this), eg

  @media print {
  /* style sheet for print */
    #wikilogo, #wikihead, #wikifoot, #wikileft, #wikicmds, 
   .wikitrail, .noprint {
  	display : none;
	}
  }

My template suggestions and customisations

Change the order of the skin CSS and run time CSS lines (which replace the Headertext) to ensure your customised skin CSS overrides the page by page generated CSS, viz

 <!--HeaderText-->
 <link rel='stylesheet' href='$SkinDirUrl/pmwiki.css' type='text/css' />

General tips

Make Firefox refresh every time

type about:config in the location bar, right click on browser.cache.check_doc_frequency and select modify, change to 1 and Firefox will now check for a new version of the page on every page load

Safe Mode and uploads

try chmod 777 /home/username/public_html/pmwikiuploads/