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Administrative Tasks

Auto Restore: Automatically restore page contents after a time interval
Backup Pages: Backup wiki.d directory in a compressed file
Change Summary: Enable a "change summary" line for each edit
Change Time Format: Change the time format string or timezone
Clean Urls: Get pmwiki to use "clean urls" (w/o pmwiki.php)
Compare Versions: of the same file (or directory)
Compressed Page Store: Have PmWiki save pages in compressed format
Content Type: Change PmWiki's content type or charset
Delete Action: Delete page via (password-protected) ?action=delete
Edit Templates: How can I establish an "edit template" for new pages?
Expire Diff: Remove a page's history (?action=expirediff)
Global Operations: Run a script over every page in a wiki
One Group For All: A cookbook to run a PmWiki in a 'single group mode' for 'naive' end-users
PageGenerationTime: adds the page generation time to the bottom of the page
Recent Changes Excerpt: Display a list of the last n modified pages
Restore PmWiki: Restore PmWiki from an archive
Search Results: Limit the pages displayed in search results or page lists
Skin Change: Allow users to select custom skins for viewing pages
Skin Config: Configure skins interactively
Sys Diff: Use an external diff(1) program for page history
Use Alternative Configurations: depending on server name (or some other determinant)

Content Management System Add:Ons

Bundle 4 Blog: Using PmWiki as a blogging engine
CMS Like: Another recipe for adding CMS behavior to PmWiki
PmWiki as a CMS: Using PmWiki as a CMS (Content Management System)
Forum: Missing pithy explanation
Guestbook: Missing pithy explanation
Tell a Friend: Send page by email

Editing

Edit On DblClick: Edit a page by double-clicking on it
Emacs PmWiki Mode: Opening/editing/saving PmWiki source from within Emacs, also known as pmwiki-mode for Emacs (Unix/Linux, etc.).
Excel Paste: Paste and convert spreadsheet (Excel) data
Gui Edit: Adding buttons in the edit window
GuiEdit DateButton: Adding a date button to the guiedit toolbar
Layout Edit Modified: Modify the edit page layout
PmWikiDraw: Edit a drawing in your browser
Preview Top: Move the edit preview box to the top
SpellChecker: Adds spelling checking to PmWiki Editing.
SubEthaEdit PmWiki Mode: Mac text editor plug-in for PmWiki compatibility, with a Safari-compatible script.
XML RPC: Connect to PmWiki using an XML-RPC interfaces such as the Blogger API

Form Tools

Build Forms: Create HTML forms with Wiki Markup
Form Guide System: Make Wiki Pages into dynamic forms
Mail Form: Send mail without exposing your own email-address
New Page Form: Adds a new page using a form
Wiki Forms: Like PITS, extended to support: defining the form using a wiki page; updating entries as well as creating them

Functional extensions

Beautifier: Perform code and syntax highlighting in wiki pages
Bibtex Ref: Use a bibliography in your pages
Comment Box: adds (:commentbox:) markup
Comments: Another commenting engine, stores comments in separate files
Source Block: An other code and syntax highlighter (supersedes CodeBlock ?).
Google Sitemaps: How to submit a pmwiki site to Google sitemaps
Generate PDF: Generates a PDF file from the current Wiki page.
Multi Language: Missing pithy explanation
Output Compression: compress the output and achieve major load speed improvements
PageList WikiTrail: Missing pithy explanation
Publish WikiTrail: Create a printable view of the pages on a WikiTrail as a single page
Simple Page Counter: count number of hits to a page
PITS: The PmWiki Issue Tracking System
Search Extensions: add page jump, search quick reference, search publish and category publish capabilities
Search Terms: another version of the above that doesn't require skin modifications

Images

Embedded Gallery: How to embed the Menalto Gallery inside of PmWiki
Easy Gallery: Howto create a gallery without additional scripts
Flash: Insert "Flash" (*.swf) movies in wiki pages
Images AutoResizing: to reduce images and make images links
Picture Gallery: Display uploaded pictures and automatically create thumbnails for preview.
Rotate Markup: Enable "rotating" markup (images) in wiki pages
Svg: Scaleable Vector Grafic (*.svg) in wiki pages
Simple Gallery: Adding a simple gallery (photo/picture album) to pmwiki

Insertions/Uploads

Attach Links: Change the formatting of Attach: links
Attachlist Enhanced: List missing or orphaned attachments
CSV Include: Missing pithy explanation
Fortune: Inserts a random fortune cookie.
Include Url: Missing pithy explanation
Include Site: Include external html pages in your Wiki Pages
Include WikiPage: Include wiki pages from other PmWiki 2.0 web sites.
Include With Edit: Add an edit button to edit the included page / section
Include XML: Transform XML with XSL in your wiki pages (RSS,...).
Random Quote: Inserts a random line from a text file.
Update Attachments: Have every attachment appear with an "update" link
Upload Groups: Change attachments to be organized on a per-group or sitewide basis
Upload Types: Add/remove upload extensions

Layout modifications

All GroupHeader: Add page for sitewide style definition like GroupHeader for all groups
Compact PageList: Making output of a long pagelist compact.
Dict Index: Get page listings in a "dictionary index" format
Film Script: Adding Film Script Styles
Group HomePage Change: Changing a group's default HomePage
Link PageCreateFmt Tooltip: Adding a "tooltip" to a link of a non-existent page
Main Group Change: Changing the Main group
Random Title: Randomise browser titles using $WikiTitle
Removing left content: (removing the SideBar)
SideBar Name Change: Changing the SideBar name
SideBar Special: Setting up special-use SideBars ?
Superscript Line Spacing: Fix line spacing of superscripts and subscripts
Title Spaced: capitalization and wikiwords

Links/Page handling

Alternate Naming Scheme: using underscores
AddLink Bookmarklet: Fast add ref. of any current web page to a given Wiki page
Add PageForm: Add pages without having to place their name on another page first
AtLinks: alternate solution for links with @ prefix @Page
External Links: Cause external links to open in a new window by default
Lazy WebLinks: -
Rename Page: Add ?action=rename option
Page Paths: Allow pages to be shared among multiple groups
Other Bookmarklets: (edit a page, etc.)
Subpage Markup: Allows a wiki page to have one level of subpage

Markup changes

Abbreviation Plurals: .
ASCII Math: embed mathematical formulas in wiki pages (no external tools required)
Conditional Extensions: extend conditional markup
Enable HTML: Allow html tags in wiki pages
Linux Tex: embed mathematical formulas in wiki pages (full LaTeX installation necessary)
Markup Extensions: adds a wide range of markups
Mime TeX: embed mathematical formulas in wiki pages
No Space Pre: removing the leading space from <PRE> blocks.
Numbered Headers: and table of content
Outline Lists: Use ordered lists for outlines (I. A. 1. i. etc.)
PageTableOfContents: Automatically generate a table of contents for a wiki page
PostIt Notes: Yellow Stickies
Reverse Headings: reverse the weights of !, !!, !!, etc.
Source Block: alternative to the (:markup:) directive
Wiki Smileys: Missing pithy explanation
WordWrap Preformatted Text: Missing pithy explanation

Markup writing

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

Custom Markup: Basic information
Functions: Functions for the markup writer (for module writers, too)
Parsing Markup Arguments: For writing markup that takes parameters
Markup Ruleset Debugging: show more information than ?action=ruleset
Regular Expressions: Tips&tricks for regular expression usage

Menu Tools

Expanding Menus: Creating expanding Sidebar menus with conditional markup
Expanding Menu: creates a menu that expands to show only subpages in the current section
Horizontal Menu
Horizontal Vertical Menu: Multilevel horizontal/vertical menu within wiki markup or e.g. SideBar ?
Tracking Menu: highlights current page
Trail Menu: creates a tree menu from a trail
Tree Menu: creates a tree like menu

Personal Information Management (PIM)

To Do: Manage a list of to do items
Quiz: create a query / answer quiz with pmwiki
Wiki Calendar: Creates a calendar, where each day is a wiki page

RSS Tools

Rss Improved: improves feed compatibility, customizable -- includes support for Podcasting/enclosures.
See All RSS Changes: Solving problem of unrecognized changes when using 3rd-party-software
Rss Feed Display: Display RSS feeds in a wiki

Security/Authentication

System Tools

My PmWiki: access to mysql
Per Group SubDirectories: Organise files in subdirectories for each group

Wiki:to-Wiki Conversion Tools

Convert UseMod: Convert pages in a UseMod directory to PmWiki
Wiki Markup Conversion: Helps to convert other wiki markup to PmWiki

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Superseded recipes

Blocklist: Block postings based on content or IP address-old version (deprecated)
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