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Documentation Index

The pages below describe various aspects of using, administering and troubleshooting a Pm Wiki 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.

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• Introduction

Beginner Topics for Creating and Editing Pages

• Basic editing - Pm Wiki's basic edit syntax
• Creating new pages - How to create a new page
• Links - Multiple mechanisms for creating links
• Images - Placing images in pages
• Text formatting rules - A list of some of the markup sequences available

Intermediate Editing Topics

• Markup master index - Tabulation of all Pm Wiki 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
• Table of contents - Basic automatic table of contents and numbered headings
• Wiki styles - Modifying the style of page contents
  • Wiki style examples - Styling text for colour and other attributes
• 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 Pm Wiki 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 - Pm Wiki 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 and login
• Categories - Categories are a way to organize and find related pages
• Page lists - Searching and 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 - Removing wiki pages
• Wiki elements -
• Special pages -

Pm Wiki Site Administration

Installation and maintenance

• Installation - Obtaining and installing Pm Wiki
• Initial setup tasks - First steps following a fresh installation
• Upgrades - How to upgrade an existing Pm Wiki installation
• Backup and Restore - background information and some basic backup and restore procedures
• Uploads administration - Administration of Pm Wiki uploads
• Security - Resources for securing your Pm Wiki installation

Customisation

• Custom markup - Using the Markup() function for custom wiki syntax; migration to PHP 5.5
• Custom wiki styles - Predefined Pm Wiki styles & adding custom wiki styles
• Internationalizations - Language internationalisation of web pages
• Local customizations - Customize your Pm Wiki installation through config.php and local.css
• Group customizations - How to customize a subset of your wiki
• Skins - Change the look and feel of part or all of Pm Wiki
• Skin templates - Skin templates (.tmpl files)
• Site Preferences - Customisable browser setting preferences: Access keys, edit form
• Web feeds - Web feed notification of changes
• Wiki Farms - Running multiple wikis from a single installation

Troubleshooting

• Frequently answered questions
• Answers to some other questions
• FAQ Candidate - more answered questions
• Questions
• How to get assistance
• Troubleshooting - Advice for troubleshooting an installation, keywords: deprecated, preg_replace, crypt, blank pages, headers, .flock, upgrade, create_function
• Available actions - documentation for developers

Security

• AuthUser - Authorization system that uses usernames and passwords
• Blocklist - Blocking IP addresses, phrases, and expressions to counteract spam and vandalism.
• Notify - How to receive email messages whenever pages are changed on the whole wiki site, individual groups or selected watchlists of pages
• Passwords administration - More password options for the administrator
• Ref count - Link references counts on pages
• Url approvals - Require approval of Url links

Development

• Cookbook:Module Guidelines - Guidelines for creating, distributing, and maintaining a recipe for the Cookbook.
• 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 Pm Wiki

• Audiences - Patrick Michaud's comments regarding the "audiences" for which Pm Wiki was designed
• Contributors - A list of contributors to Pm Wiki development and improvement
• Mailing lists - The email discussion lists available and their archives
• PmWiki philosophy - This page describes some of the ideas that guide the design and implementation of Pm Wiki
• Design notes - Some of the features and notes about Pm Wiki's design decisions
• Release notes - Notes about new versions, important for upgrades
• Change log - Log of changes made to Pm Wiki by Release
• References - References to Pm Wiki media coverage
• Glossary - Terms related to Pm Wiki
• Introduction loop trail