PmWiki | Test / PageWithLotsOfText

Note: This cookbook contains recipes for PmWiki version 2.0 only. For cookbook recipes for versions 0.6 and 1.0, see Cookbook-V1.

Welcome to the PmWiki Cookbook. This cookbook is used for the development version of PmWiki 2.0 only. The recipes that appear here are unlikely to work with versions of PmWiki prior to 2.0 (and recipes from prior versions probably won't work in 2.0).

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Administrative tasks

Change PmWiki's content type or charset ?
Change the time format string or timezone ?
Get pmwiki to use "clean urls" (w/o pmwiki.php)?
Limit the pages displayed in search results or page lists
Enable a "change summary" line for each edit ?
Remove a page's history (?action=expirediff)?
Display a list of the last n modified pages ?
Allow users to select custom skins for viewing pages ?
Configure skins interactively ?
Use an external diff(1) program for page history ?
Use Simuledit on Server with popen() not allowed ?
Delete page via (password-protected) ?action=delete ?
EditTemplates ? - How can I establish an "edit template" for new pages?
Use common pages in a wikiFarm ? - like the edit templates
Use alternative configurations ? depending on server name (or some other determinant)
Compare versions ? of the same file (or directory)
Backup Pages ? - Backup wiki.d directory in a compressed file for backup purpose
CompressedPageStore ? - PmWiki saves pages in compressed format.
AutoRestore ? - Automatically restore page contents after a time interval
Restore PmWiki ? - Restore PmWiki from an archive
GlobalOperations ? - Run a script over every page in a wiki

Security/Authentication

See also PmWiki.Security
Block postings based on content or IP address ?
Use the Movable Type Spam Black List ?
Require an author name when saving edits ?
eProtect ? Hide e-mail address
MailPosts Get notification by email about page edits
UserAuth ? - User based authorization
Conditional that depends on what the user is authenticated as
Making password requests explicit ?
Fake logout ? - remove the current session and author cookies
Fix short sessions ? - if you keep getting asked to enter your password after saving edits
Authorcontribution ? - Show all pages a specific author contributes to.
CreditsBlock ? - List all contributors to a page on the page
ControllingWebRobots ? - adding robot control meta-tags to pages
SecureAttachments ? - safeguarding attachments from public access on protected pages or groups.
FarmSecurity ? - Making Farm installations secure
Audit Images ? - Check to see what images have been uploaded to your wiki.

Links/Page handling

LazyWebLinks ?
Move a page ? to a different group, or rename it obsolete, see next entry
Add ?action=rename option ?
Cause external links to open in a new window by default ?
Allow pages to be shared among multiple groups ?
AlternateNamingScheme ? using underscores
SubpageMarkup ?
AtLinks ? - alternate solution for links with @ prefix @Page
AddLinkBookmarklet Fast add ref. of any current web page to a given Wiki page
Add the InterMap prefix ThisSite: to your site ?
Disabling WikiWords ?
Add pages ? without having to place their name on another page first

Layout modifications

Get page listings in a "dictionary index" format ?
Changing the Main group ?
Changing the SideBar name ?
Setting up special-use SideBars ?
Creating expanding Sidebar menus with conditional markup ?
Removing left content ? (removing the SideBar)
Adding a "tooltip" to a link of a non-existent page ?
Fix line spacing of superscripts and subscripts ?
FilmScript - Adding Film Script Styles
Title Spaced ?, capitalization and wikiwords
CompactPageList ? - Making output of a long pagelist compact.
AllGroupHeader ? Add page for sitewide style definition like GroupHeader for all groups

Markup changes

PageTableOfContents ?
MarkupExtensions ? adds a range of markups
LineBreaks ?
Word Wrap Preformatted Text ?
NoSpacePre ? - removing the leading space from <PRE> blocks.
AbbreviationPlurals ?
Outline Lists ? - Use ordered lists for outlines (I. A. 1. i. etc.)
Enable HTML
Horizontal Menu ?
HorizontalVerticalMenu ? - Multilevel horizontal/vertical menu within wiki markup or e.g. SideBar ?
TrailMenu ? - creates a tree menu from a trail
TrackingMenu ? - highlights current page
TreeMenu ? - creates a tree like menu
ExpandingMenu ? - creates a menu that expands to show only subpages in the current section
WikiSmileys ?
ReverseHeadings ? - reverse the weights of !, !!, !!!, etc.
TitledLinks ? - extract the link title from a page
SourceBlock ? - alternative to the (:markup:) directive
MimeTeX ? - embed mathematical formulas in wiki pages
LinuxTex - embed mathematical formulas in wiki pages (full LaTeX installation necessary)
Numbered Headers ? and table of content
Conditional Extensions ? - extend conditional markup
Post It Notes ? - Yellow Stickies
Group List ? -- Add markup to generate a list of all groups on the site

Markup writing

This is information for those who wish to write recipes for markup changes.

CustomMarkup ? - Basic information
Parsing Markup Arguments - For writing markup that takes parameters
MarkupRulesetDebugging ? - show more information than ?action=ruleset
Functions ? - Functions for the markup writer (for module writers, too)
RegularExpressions ? - Tips&tricks for regular expression usage

Editing

GuiEdit ? - Adding buttons in the edit window
GuiEdit DateButton ? - Adding a date button to the guiedit toolbar
EditOnDblClick ? - Edit a page by double-clicking on it
PreviewTop ? - Move the edit preview box to the top
LayoutEditModified ? - Modify the edit page layout
ExcelPaste - Paste and convert spreadsheet (Excel) data
EditPageImprovements ? - discussion of proposed changes
EmacsPmWikiMode ? - Opening/editing/saving PmWiki source from within Emacs, also known as pmwiki-mode for Emacs.
PmWikiDraw ? - Edit a drawing in your browser
SpellChecker ? - Adds spelling checking to PmWiki Editing.
SubEthaEdit PmWiki Mode ?
XMLRPC ? - Connect to PmWiki using an XML-RPC interfaces such as the Blogger API

Insertions/Uploads

UploadTypes ? - Add/remove upload extensions
IncludeUrl ?
IncludeSite ? - Include external html pages in your Wiki Pages
IncludeWikiPage ? - Include wiki pages from other PmWiki 2.0 web sites.
CSV Include ?
IncludeWithEdit ? - Add an edit button to edit the included page / section
UploadGroups ? - Change attachments to be organized on a per-group or sitewide basis
UpdateAttachments ? - Have every attachment appear with an "update" link
AttachLinks ? - Change the formatting of Attach: links
RssFeedDisplay ? - Display RSS feeds in a wiki
RandomQuote ? - Inserts a random line from a text file.
Fortune ? - Inserts a random fortune cookie.
AttachlistEnhanced ? - List missing or orphaned attachments
IncludeXML ? - Transform XML with XSL in your wiki pages.

Images

Flash - Insert "Flash" (*.swf) movies in wiki pages
Svg ? - Scaleable Vector Grafic (*.svg) in wiki pages
RotateMarkup Enable "rotating" markup (images) in wiki pages
Script-Generated Images ? in wiki pages
ImagesAutoResizing ? to reduce images and make images links
EmbeddedGallery ? - How to embed the Menalto Gallery inside of PmWiki
SimpleGallery ? - Adding a simple gallery (photo/picture album) to pmwiki
SimpleImageFloat ? - Simple image float right, left and center with caption
PictureGallery ? - Display uploaded pictures and automatically create thumbnails for preview.
EasyGallery - Howto create a gallery without additional scripts

Functional extensions

PmWikiAsACMS ? - Using PmWiki as a CMS (Content Management System)
CMSLike ? - Another recipe for adding CMS behavior to PmWiki
Bundle4Blog ? - Using PmWiki as a blogging engine
RssPodcasts ? - Adding audio file enclosures to RSS feeds (audio blogging)
WikiCalendar ?
Guestbook ?
Forum ?
CommentBox ? adds (:commentbox:) markup
SimplePageCounter ? - count number of hits to a page
PageGenerationTime ? - adds the page generation time to the bottom of the page
Comments - Another commenting engine, stores comments in separate files
ToDo ? - Manage a list of to do items
MailForm - Send mail without exposing your own email-address
NewPageForm ? - Adds a new page using a form
TellAFriend ? - Send page by email
PublishWikiTrail ?
PageListWikiTrail ?
MultiLanguage ?
GeneratePDF ? - Generates a PDF file from the current Wiki page.
FormGuideSystem ? - Make Wiki Pages into dynamic forms
BuildForms ? - Create HTML forms with Wiki Markup
WikiForms ? - PITS extended to support