The pages below describe various aspects of using, administering and troubleshooting a PmWiki installation, as well as aspects of the PmWiki community.
As you know, documentation is always incomplete.
Feel free to help yourself and others by contributing to it.
Just edit the pages on pmwiki.org.
You might want to follow or contribute to the documentation guidelines.
Beginner Topics for Creating and Editing Pages
Intermediate Editing Topics
- Markup master index - Tabulation of all PmWiki markup
- Uploads - Allow authors to upload files, also known as page attachments
- Tables - Simple tables with double pipe markup, one row per line
- Table directives - Directives for table processing
- Wiki styles - Modifying the style of page contents
- Access keys - Access keys are keyboard shortcuts for tasks that would otherwise require a mouse
- Page directives - Directives to specify page titles, descriptions, keywords, and display
- Include other pages - Include contents from other PmWiki pages
- InterMap links - Interwiki links definition and use
- Conditional markup - The if directive allows portions of a page to be included or excluded from rendering
- Page variables - variables that are associated with pages
- Page text variables - Page variables automatically made available through natural or explicit page markup
- Markup expressions - String and formatting operations
- Forms - How you can embed input forms into wiki pages
- Simultaneous edits - Handling multiple attempts to edit a page nearly simultaneously
Organizing and Protecting Pages
- Wiki structure - PmWiki structural support for page organization
- Wiki groups - Organising pages into related groups
- Group headers - Group Header and Group Footer page usage
- Wiki trails - Trails from lists items from a single page
- Page history - History of previous edits to a page
- Passwords - General use of passwords
- Categories - Categories are a way to organize and find related pages
- Page lists - Listing pages by multiple criteria with templated output
- Attach lists - Get a list of files uploaded and attached to a group using (:attachlist:) (Directives to specify page titles, descriptions, keywords, and display)
- Deleting pages - Page maintenance
PmWiki Site Administration
Installation and maintenance
Customisation
Troubleshooting
Security
- AuthUser - Authorization system that uses usernames and passwords
- Blocklist - Blocking IP addresses, phrases, and expressions to counteract spam and vandalism.
- Notify - Allows a site administrator to configure PmWiki to send email messages whenever pages are changed on the wiki site
- Passwords administration - More password options for the administrator
- Ref count - Link references counts on pages
- Url approvals - Require approval of Url links
Development
- Variables - Variables available for local customisation
- Functions - How some of the functions in pmwiki.php work
- Page file format - Create wiki formatted pages in bulk and for upload to your pmwiki site
About PmWiki
Note: The following pages are listed here so that they can include a #faq section and have the questions appear on the FAQ page.
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