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Summary: Recipes for Wiki Administration and Administrators

  • Note: The last column counts the number of users who left comments on the *-Users page dedicated to the recipe.
NameSummaryCategoriesUsers*
ActionLogMaintain a page log of wiki actions (2006-08-03 Stable)Administration Security +2
AddNewlineMake wiki text end with a newline character, so the last line won't be marked as changed if text is added at the bottom (2006-01-29 )Editing, Administration ?
AddUrlSchemesHow to get PmWiki to recognize additional URL schemes such as irc:, nntp:, etc. ( )Administration ?
AlternateNamingSchemeUse other naming schemes for PmWiki pages ( )Administration Links PageNaming ?
Auth-SMFIntegrate SMF Simple Machines Forum with PmWiki and use SMF user management for Pmwiki authentication (2008-06-27 new)Administration Forum Security ?
AuthCASCentral Authentication Service(CAS) based authentication ( 2009-04-08 )Administration, Security ?
AuthPhpBB2Use phpBB2 user authentication for PmWiki page edit protection and author name (1.0 (05 March 2007) Stable)Administration, Security, Forum ?
AuthPhpbb2SsoSingle Sign On for PmWiki and phpBB2 (080401 Stable)Administration, Security, Forum +1
AuthPhpBB3Use phpBB3 user authentication for PmWiki ( )Administration, Security, Forum ?
AuthPhpBBUsersAndGroupsUse phpBB3 user authentication and groups for PmWiki ( )Administration, Security, Forum ?
AuthPunBBUse PunBB/FluxBB user authentication for PmWiki (2009-JAN-30 Draft)Administration, Security, Forum ?
AuthUserSignupAllow users to sign up themselves (with email verification) for authuser accounts (2009-04-19 Beta)Administration and Security +3
AuthUserViaMicrosoftLDAPConfigure AuthUser with Microsoft AD LDAP ( )Administration ?
AutoCreateCategoryAutomatically creates category pages for all tags in the page text (0.9 2008-11-27 BETA)Administration ?
AutoCreatePagesAutomatically create pages based on the name of the current page. (2008-08-24 Alpha)Administration ?
AutoGroupPagesHow to create a number of pages for a new group automatically (2006-08-05 stable)Editing, Administration ?
AutoRestoreAutomatically restore pages after a set time interval (2007-02-15 Stable)Administration +1
AutoThumberAutomatically resize uploaded images using ImageMagick (2008-04-05 beta)Images Uploads Administration ?
BackupPagesAutomatically back up the wiki.d directory to a .zip file ( )Administration ?
BlockCrawlerRedirect web crawlers to different pages ( )Robots, Administration ?
Bloge-ShortUrlGet short URLs on your own site (2009-08-28 beta)Administration, Blog, CMS, Links ?
BulkReplaceChange the content of many pages at a time ( just a rough draft)Editing Administration System Tools ?
BundleA (proposed) community-supported bundle of commonly used cookbook recipes (0 proposal)Administration Bundles CMS System tools ?
CaseCorrectionMakes PmWiki intelligently case-insensitive (2008-09-03 beta)Administration, Links, CMS, SystemTools +1
CleanUrlsEnable URLs that are shorter (without .php) and/or look like paths to wiki pages. (2007-04-11 )Administration +6
CleanUrls-OldVersionHow to make clean urls (Old version) (New page: CleanUrls )Administration ?
CMSLikeMake PmWiki behave as a CMS by showing only the actions the current user is allowed to perform (0.32 )Administration, CMS ?
CommentDbComment recipe - with pagination and RSS feed ( 1.0beta - 26 January 2006 )CMS, Blog, Administration, Comments ?
CommentPageLinkHow to create a comment page ( )CMS, Administration, Comments ?
CommentsComment addon - comments in separate files (14 April 2005 )Administration, Comments ?
CompareVersionsDetermine if two versions of the same file are the same or how they differ ( )Administration ?
CompressedPageStoreSave wiki pages/files in compressed (gzip) format (2007-05-23 )Administration, CustomPageStore ?
CompressedUploadsModify scripts/upload.php to work with bzip2 archives ( )SystemTools, Administration ?
Config.Phpconfig.php tips and tricks (0.0 )Administration ?
ConvertHTMLConvert an HTML page to PmWiki markup (2009-08-25 beta)Administration, Markup, Wiki conversion +1
ConvertTABLEHow to convert HTML pages with tables full of data into advanced tables (17 September 2005 )Editing, Administration, Tables ?
Cookbook BasicsExplains what the cookbook and its recipes are. (2007-04-12 )Administration PmWiki Developer ?
CreditsBlockCreate a "last edited by" block that includes everybody who had a hand in developing a page (0.3 - 3 January 2005 )Administration ?
CSVIncludeInclude a CSV file as a table in your wiki page ( )Includes, Administration, Tables ?
DeleteActionUse a separate password for deleting pages (2005-08-10 )Administration, GUI, Security ?
Delta Bytes in Recent ChangesDisplay the number of bytes (characters) added or deleted to a page in RecentChanges. (24 February 2007 )Editing, Administration, WikipediaSuite ?
DirectoryAndFilePermissionsExplains which directories and files need to be readable, writable, and servable by the webserver. (2006-12-05 Initial version)Security Administration ?
DotsInLinksHow to enable dots in wiki links ( Experimental)Administration Links ?
DynamicWikiTrailsDefine dynamic URL trails (2.2 - 24 March 2007) )Administration, WikiTrails ?
Edit-Restricted ProfileAuthors can only edit their own pages in the Profiles group. (2007-07-24 )Administration ?
EditTemplatesSpecify a wiki page or pages to use as a template when a new page is created. (N/a Stable) Administration Editing +4
EProtectEmail obfuscation (7 April 2005 )Security, Administration, Spam +2 -1
ExpandingMenuA sidebar menu that supports nested lists where the nested items are displayed only if the user is in that group ( )Layout, Administration ?
ExpandingMenusHow to create a sidebar menu which expands to show sublevel (group) items using conditional markup only ( Stable)Layout Menus Administration ?
ExpireDiffHow to remove a page's history ( )Administration +2
ExportHTMLExport PmWiki pages as "static" HTML pages (2007-01-12 )SystemTools, Administration ?
ExternAuthUse authentication mechanisms external to PmWiki ( 0.1, 3 June 2006 )Administration, Security ?
Extra Words In Title Tag RecipeThis is a really simple recipe for adding extra words to the title tag in the head. (1.0.20090707 Functional, tested on 2.2.0-beta67)CMS | Administration ?
FarmSideBarShare a sidebar among several fields in a farm ( )WikiFarms, Administration ?
FastCacheCaches complete wiki pages for very fast retrieval (2009-01-22 beta)Administration, CMS ?
FastSearchhow to improve the speed of searches and categories on large sites with slow machines (1.3 - 2006-8-18 )Searching, Administration, CustomPageStore ?
FixShortSessionsHow to fix short sessions so you aren't prompted frequently for a password ( )Administration, Security Passwords ?
FlickrHow to integrate Flickr into a PmWiki page ( )Integration, Administration, Images ?
ForumProvide a simple forum ( )Administration ?
FoxTextReplacereplace text strings on multiple pages (2008-12-08 experimental)Fox Administration Editing ?
GetRidOfMainHow to get rid of "Main" group, i.e. all pages in "Main" are accessible and accessed directly in the wiki root (1.0 )Administration ?
GlobalOperationsHow to apply an operation to every page of a wiki ( )Administration ?
GoogleAnalyticsAdd Google Analytics tracking code to wiki pages (2007-03-21 Stable)Administration ?
GraphVizSitemapProvide a GraphViz format for sitemap (2009-05-08 alpha)Administration, Menus, Publishing ?
GrepRCSearch the RecentChanges entries similarly to a pagelist (2010-02-05 Beta)Administration Editing ?
GroupHomePageChangeHow to rename the group's starting page, i.e., be different than the default "HomePage". ( )Administration ?
HandleUnknownMarkupsHow to suppress unknown markup, instead of having it display ( )Administration ?
HowToMakeATabbedSkinHow to make a tabbed skin (n/a )Layout, Administration ?
HtpasswdFormForm based management of users and passwords using .htpasswd/.htgroup files (2008-10-27 Stable)Administration Security +1
InfoBoxHow to create Bubblehelp infoboxes, as seen in knoppix.org ( )Administration, Layout ?
InlineDiffShows the difference between 2 versions by highlighting the changes in markup on word level. (2010-02-03 stable)Administration, Editing +6
InstallOnIISHow to install PmWiki on IIS v6 (2.2 living document) ?
InstallOnWindowsHomeServerInstall PmWiki on Windows Home Server and IIS6 (2009-12-20 Living document)Administration Install System tools +1
ISO8859MakePageNamePatternsISO 8859 character conversion for url page names; strip accents etc. from characters for easier readable page names (2007-11-20 )Administration Links International PageNaming ?
Limit Diffs per pagePaginate the "diff" output (when viewing a page history, limit the number of displayed revisions at once) (20100217 Stable/Beta)Administration Editing +1
LimitNewPagesInWikiGroupsHow to limit the creation of new pages in your wiki group (2007-02-27 )Administration ?
LimitWikiGroupsHow to limit the names or number of groups in your wiki ( )Administration ?
Login LogoutHow to log out after logging in (n/a Q&A)Security, Administration +3
MailmanAuthUse an external mailing list for PmWiki authentication (2008-09-02 beta)Administration, Security, SystemTools ?
MainGroupChangeHow to change the Main (startup) group ( )Administration ?
MemberMgmtAdvanced member management (using ZAP and AuthUser). Allows self registration, logins, groups, site customization, and more! (Latest ZAP version. Beta (relies on latest Beta version of PmWiki))CMS Security Administration ?
ModesConceptA place to remember thoughts/ideas related to using different modes ( )Administration, Layout ?
Module GuidelinesGuidelines for creating, distributing, and maintaining a recipe for the Cookbook. (2007-04-14 )Administration, CustomPageStore, PmWiki Developer ?
MovePageMove and copy wiki pages (2009-08-17 beta)Administration, Editing, Page naming, System tools +2
NetstreamsCMSA CMS (Content Management System) extension for pmwiki features different page-types (article, blog, comment issues), separation of content and layout, basic workflow capabilities, content-type based authentication and wysiwyg editing. (009bX Experimental)CMS Administration Blog Comments ?
NetstreamsMenuA desktop-application like menu for authors and admins (009bX beta)CMS Administration Menu Skins ?
NewGroupWarningDisplay a warning when a user is creating a page in a non-existent wiki group. (2008-01-29 )Editing, Links, Administration ?
NewPageBoxHow to provide a form or box to allow users to create new pages (4 January 2006 )CMS, Forms, Editing, Administration ?
NumberOfArticlesReport the number of articles in a wiki (0.3 - 18 September 2006 )Administration, Includes, Obsolete ?
OneGroupForAllConfine all users to one group, named other than Main (9 June 2005 )Administration ?
OpenUrlsAutomatically create URL Path for use with EnablePathInfo. (1.0 )Administration Ben Wilson Maintained ?
OutputCompressionUse zlib output compression to make pages load faster (8 May 2005 )Administration, SystemTools ?
PageAtticHow to store backup files of deleted pages in a separate directory (2006-01-29 )Administration, CustomPageStore ?
PageConfigAllow basic administrative configuration from a page (2008-06-01 Alpha)Administration +1
PageCreatoradds page creator (original author) to be stored as a page attribute (2008-02-24 )Administration Security ?
PageDiffSizeAdd an accurate count of characters added & removed to each edit summary (2009-06-09 beta)Administration, Editing ?
PageGenerationTimeDisplay page generation time (2004-05-05 )Administration +1
PageListWikiTrailEnable a WikiTrails markup to use a (:pagelist ... :) directive (November 2005 )Administration, WikiTrails, PageList ?
PageRegenerateMake PmWiki regenerate a page, as if someone had done an edit+save sequence. (1.0 Stable)Administration ?
PageTopStoreA PageStore alternative which doesn't mangle page contents when viewed outside PmWiki (2009-11-27 beta)Administration, CustomPageStore ?
PerformanceComparisonsPage to share site setups and performance ( )SystemTools, Administration ?
Per-Group and Per-Page Customizations in config.phpPlace your per-group and per-page customizations in config.php rather than in separate PHP scripts. (Still a draft Quo)Administration ?
PerGroupSubDirectoriesSubdivide wiki.d into subdirectories according to page group ( )Administration, CustomPageStore +2
PersistentLoginLogin form with "Remember me" option (20091122 Experimental)Administration Security ?
phpalertuse popup for debugging (2.2 Working)Administration Debugging ?
PhpBB2IntegrationIntegration options for PmWiki and phpBB2 forums (plus others) (1.0 Stable)Administration ?
PHPExecuteLets you execute PHP-Code in any page. (0.9 2008-12-07 BETA)Administration Markup ?
PHP files managementPHP file manager ( )SystemTools, Administration ?
PMWCompatAllow PHP 5 commands to be used in PHP 4 (1.0 Working)Administration ?
PmWiki2PDFGenerate a PDF; back up all wiki pages in PDF format (2005-10-10 )PDF, Publishing, Administration ?
PmWiki as a CMSHow to use PmWiki as a CMS ( )Administration, CMS ?
PowerToolsmarkup expressions for multi page processing incl. plist, pagelist, rename, pagecount, wordcount, trail, serialname, serial, newticket, sumdata, allptvs, random (2009-09-03 new)Markup Administration Markup Expressions PageVariables WikiTrails Menus +3
PresenceAwarenessUser-based authentication, a list of online logged users, tools to register and manage users and send posts via Jabber (1.1 )Administration, Security, Ajax ?
PresenceAwarenessLightLight version of PresenceAwareness (1.0, 26 September 2005 )Administration, Security, Ajax ?
PreviewFirstHow to get the page preview to appear before the edit box ( )Administration, Editing, Layout +1
PropertiesHow to have your own set of properties/variables in wiki pages ( )Administration ?
PublishWikiTrailProvide the ability to publish the pages of a wiki trail as a single web page, formatted for printing (2.0.6 )Publishing, Administration, WikiTrails ?
RandomQuoteWikiHow to display a random quote from a list stored in a PmWiki page ( )Administration ?
RandomTitleHow to make PmWiki have random titles in the browser title bar ( )Administration ?
RecentChangesDeletionAllow authors to delete RecentChanges pages, there-by making it possible for authors to delete wiki groups. (2008-01-30 )Editing, Administration ?
RecentChangesExcerptHow to display a list of last n RecentChanges (1 )Layout, GUI +1
Recent Uploads LogList all uploaded files in RecentUploads pages (2009-09-03 )Uploads, Administration +2
RecipeCheckCheck for new versions of recipes on pmwiki.org (2007-04-17 Stable)Administration, System tools +3
RedirectMapcreate short urls for redirects using mapping similar to intermap (2008-07-11 new)Administration Links ?
RequireAuthorRequire author names when saving pages ( Documentation)Administration, Security +4
RequireCategoryRequire categories to be entered (2005-09-16 )Editing, Administration ?
RequireSummaryRequire a summary to be entered (2006-07-19 )Administration ?
RestorePmWikiRestore or move a PmWiki installation from an archive ( )Administration ?
SearchResultsHow to change the way search results are displayed ( )Searching, PageList, Administration ?
SecureAttachmentsSecurity issues for attachments ( )Administration, Security, Uploads +1
SEOA set of best practices to Search Engine Optimization ( )Administration, Links, Layout, CMS ?
SideBarNameChangeHow to change the name of the SideBar ( )Administration ?
SideNotesCreate "Side Notes" for jotting down notes ( )Editing, Administration ?
Simple Discuss LinkAdd an action (or sidebar) link that leads to and from a -Talk page. (2007-07-25 Initial Release)Administration CMS Menus ?
SimplePageCounterA simple page counter of visits to each page (2009-02-05 )Administration ?
SimultaneousEditsEnable simultaneous edits for platforms without popen or diff3 ( Stable)Administration Windows ?
SingleSign-OnUse Windows-Logon for Authentication on pmwiki (1 Stable)Administration, Security ?
SisterlyLets wikis on a farm access each other as easily as accessing other pages within a wiki (2008-10-14 beta)WikiFarms, Administration, CustomPageStore ?
SiteInformationHow to quickly see the settings for a site without having to look at the contents of the local configuration file (2005-10-03 )Administration ?
SitemapperAdds a dynamically generated sitemap to PmWiki. (0.5.2 (2008-09-10) beta)Menus, WikiTrails, Administration, Hierarchy ?
SMFUserIntergrationIntegrates Simple Machines Users into PmWiki (0.3 (June 18, 2007) Testing)Authentication, Administration ?
SourceForgeServersInstall PmWiki in SourceForge.net's project web space. (1 Stable)Administration, Security, CustomPageStore ?
SpeedOptimizationsHow to tune PmWiki and its environment for speed ( )Administration ?
SQLite PageStore classStore wiki pages in an SQLite database file (20100219 Beta)Administration, Data, SystemTools, CustomPageStore ?
StopwatchUse the $StopWatch function to measure PmWiki performance. (2007-04-17 )Administration ?
SuperscriptLineSpacingHow to fix line spacing of superscripts and subscripts ( )Layout, Administration ?
SurveyYourAccessPermissionsGenerates a list of wikipages with special access permissions. (1.0 stable)Administration ?
SwitchToSSLModeHow to force PmWiki to use SSL (2007-06-12 Beta)Administration Security ?
SysDiffUse an external "diff" program to speed saving of long pages. (2007-03-21 Stable)Administration +1
TagsHow to have tags (like Flickr) ( )Searching, Administration, CMS, Blog ?
TimeZonesDisplay all dates and times in user selectable timezone and format (2007-10-28d alpha)Page variables, Editing, Administration -1
TitleMarkupsetting a page title with the first title markup, subsequent titles (from included pages etc.) are ignored (2008-01-27 )Administration Markup ?
TitleSpacedHow to have spaces in a page title (n/a )Administration, PageNaming +1
TotalCounterA statistic counter - counts page views, users, languages, browsers, operating systems, referers, locations and web bots (2010-02-08 - v1.9.2 )CMS, Administration, SystemTools +3 -4
TrackChangesWays to more easily detect and verify all recent edits (N/A )Administration, Editing, Security ?
TrackingMenuA sidebar menu tracking the current page ( )Layout, Administration ?
Trash"safely delete" pages so that they can be restored and listed with pagelists ( )Administration, WikiFarms ?
TreeMenuProvides additional markup for creating a tree-like menu ( )Layout, Administration ?
UploadPicCompressionCompress uploaded image files (7 March 2005 )Images, Administration ?
UseAlternativeConfigurationsGet the base URL from the server ( )Administration ?
UserAuthUser-based authorization (0.70, 25 January 2006 )Administration, Security ?
UserAuth2A user-based permission granting and authentication module (2.2.3 (2010-03-03) released, stable, maintained (tested with Pmwiki 2.1.11, 2.2.0-beta45))Administration, Security +1
UserAuthDevelUser-based authorization Development Page ( )Administration, Security ?
UserLastActionRecord the last action for each user so that stale accounts can be detected (2007-03-25 stable)Administration Security ?
VisitorsLoggingHow to have a clean log of visitor activity for each field of a farm ( )Administration, WikiFarms ?
VisitorsLogging1337Log all activity on your wiki to a text file in a configurable way. (1.3.37 stable (works for me))Administration ?
WatchThatPageTips for how to use http://www.watchthatpage.com/ with the Recent Changes page. ( Documentation)Administration ?
WbBackupBackup dynamic wiki data (wiki.d, cookbook, ...) (2008-01-22 Stable)Administration ?
WebAdminPHP file manager, works without ftp client (1.1, 9 November 2006 ) ?
WebServerSecurityHow to use ".htaccess" to make PmWiki more secure ( )Security, Administration ?
WhosWhereShow Who's Where on your wiki (2009-03-08 Experimental)Data Security Administration ?
WikiBoxAllow posting to and reading from PmWiki via email (2008-08-17 Alpha)System Tools Markup Administration +2
WikiFarmStepByStepStep by step instruction on how to set up PmWiki as a WikiFarm from scratch ( )Administration, WikiFarms ?
WikiRefactoringSteps and methods to refactor and re-organize a wiki ( )wiki, Refactoring, Administration, Editing ?
WikiShWiki-based script language roughly emulating linux shell tools (2009-12-18 Beta)Markup Searching Includes SystemTools Administration Files Security Markup Expressions Forms +3
Word2PmWikiWord macro to convert a Word document to PmWiki syntax (0.9, 20 December 2006 Beta)Administration Windows ?
WordWrapPreformattedTextPrevent long lines of text stretching beyond the window edge ( )Administration ?
  • Note: The last column counts the number of users who left comments on the *-Users page dedicated to the recipe.
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