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 and login
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
Wiki elements - An introduction to PmWiki page elements and features
Special pages - Pages in PmWiki that have special meaning or are created or updated in a special manner
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
Audiences - Patrick Michaud's comments regarding the "audiences" for which PmWiki was designed
Contributors - A list of contributors to PmWiki 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 PmWiki
Design notes - Some of the features and notes about PmWiki's design decisions
Release notes - Notes about new versions, important for upgrades
Change log - Log of changes made to PmWiki by Release
References - References to PmWiki media coverage
Glossary - Terms related to PmWiki
Introduction loop trail
Note: The following pages are listed here so that they can include a #faq section and have the questions appear on the FAQ page.
The problem is that these pages become part of the trail