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Home Page Download And Install User Guide Help And FAQ Developers Credits Screenshots Links Site Map Contact Us | The pages below describe various aspects of using, administering and troubleshooting a PmWiki installation, as well as aspects of the PmWiki community. As you can see, the documentation is still incomplete. Feel free to help yourself and others by completing it! Just edit the pages on pmwiki.org. You might want to follow or contribute to the documentation guidelines. ## Table of Contents Beginner Topics for Creating/Editing Pages Intermediate Editing Topics Wiki Structures: Organizing and Protecting Pages PmWiki Site Administration About PmWiki ## Beginner Topics for Creating and Editing Pages Basic editing - Examples of common PmWiki page markup Creating new pages - How to add a page to the site Links - Creating links to other places in the site or to an external URL Images - Placing images in pages Text formatting rules - A large list of available PmWiki markup ## Intermediate Editing Topics Uploads - Allow authors to upload files, also known as page attachments Tables - How to use the original type of table markup Table directives - Newer, more advanced type of table markup Wiki Styles - Modify the color and other CSS style attributes of a page's contents WikiStyle examples - More wikistyle demonstration Page directives - Specify page titles, descriptions, etc., and display of various components Include other pages - Insert the contents of other pages into a wiki page Inter Map links - System for defining links among (usually wiki) sites Conditional markup - Use the (:if:) directive to include or exclude portions of a page Page variables - Variables that can be used in page markup Markup master index - Everything you wanted to know about wiki markup but were afraid to ask Simultaneous edits - Handling multiple attempts to edit a page nearly simultaneously ## Organizing and Protecting Pages Wiki structure - Some options for organizing pages on the site Wiki Groups - Organizing pages into wiki groups Group Headers - Add content to the beginning of all pages in a Wiki Group Wiki Trails - Create navigation paths (trails) through pages Page history - View/recover previous versions of a page Passwords - Password protect pages and groups Categories - Organize pages into categories (like "tags" and "labels") Page lists - Get lists of pages using (:pagelist:) and (:searchresults:) Deleting pages - How to remove pages from the site ## PmWiki Site Administration Installation - How to download and install PmWiki Initial setup tasks - First steps following a fresh installation Local customizations - Customize your installation Skins - Change your site's overall look and feel Upgrades - Upgrade your site to a newer version of PmWiki Backup and Restore - Be prepared for disaster recovery Per-group customizations - How to customize a subset of your wiki Passwords administration - Apply passwords to pages, wiki groups, or the entire site Auth User - Identity-based authorization system (usernames and authorization groups) Uploads administration - Configure your site for file attachments Internationalizations - How to use translation pages and the XLPage() function Wiki Farms - Run multiple sites using one copy of PmWiki Custom InterMap - The default InterMap links, and how to create more of them Custom markup - Create custom wiki markup as a local customization Custom WikiStyles - The predefined WikiStyles and how to define your own Available actions - A list of descriptions for what ?action=XXX does Troubleshooting - Advice for troubleshooting an installation Notify - Send email messages when pages are changed (but see also web feeds) Web feeds - Provide RSS, Atom, and Dublin Core syndication feeds Ref Count - Find orphaned and missing pages Url approvals - Discourage "link spamming" with urlapprove.php Variables - Variables available for local customization Functions - How some functions in pmwiki.php work Page file format - Create wiki formatted pages in bulk and for upload to your pmwiki site Changes from PmWiki 1 - Features of PmWiki 1.0 that have been changed or eliminated Upgrading from PmWiki 1 - Suggestions for upgrading a PmWiki 1.x installation to PmWiki 2 ## About PmWiki Audiences - Describes the "audiences" for which PmWiki was designed Contributors - Some contributors to PmWiki's development and improvement Mailing lists - The email discussion lists available and their archives Pm Wiki Philosophy - Some of the ideas that guide the design and implementation of PmWiki Design notes - Some of the features and notes about PmWiki's design decisions References - Places where PmWiki has been written about Glossary - Descriptions of various terms related to 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. Access Keys Basic Variables Edit Variables File Permissions Fmt Page Name I18n Variables Layout Variables Link Variables Other Variables Pagelist Variables Path Variables Requirements Security Site Preferences Skin Templates Special Characters Upload Variables Wiki Administrator Wiki Page Wiki Wiki Web Wiki Word

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