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Pagelist Recent Changes

Summary: A recent changes page created using Page lists
Version: 1.0
Prerequisites: 2.2.0
Status: Mature
Maintainer: Simon
Categories: PageList, MarkupOnly
Users: +1 (view / edit)
Discussion: PagelistRecentChanges-Talk
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Questions answered by this recipe

  • How do I roll my own recent changes page?
  • How can I gain more control over the recent changes I display?

Description

Using a pagelist to create a recent changes page.

After copying the code, you need to restore the lines, by removing the unnecessary line breaks.

Create a pagelist in Site.LocalTemplates as follows

#recentlychanged

>>comment<<
[[#recentlychanged]]
(:template defaults trail=Site.AllRecentChanges:)
(:template first:)
||width=* 
||!Page ||! Time||!By ||!Change ||
(:template each:)
||''[[{=$FullName} | {=$Groupspaced}.{=$Namespaced}]]'' || [[{=$FullName}?action=diff | {=$LastModified}]]||(:if !equal {=$LastModifiedBy}:)[[~{=$LastModifiedBy}]](:ifend:) ||{=$LastModifiedSummary} ||
[[#recentlychangedend]]
>>font-size:smaller<<

(:pagelist fmt=#recentlychanged count=12:)

(:template defaults trail=Site.AllRecentChanges:) (:template first:)

PageTimeByChange

(:template each:)

{=$Groupspaced}.{=$Namespaced}{=$LastModified}{=$LastModifiedBy}{=$LastModifiedSummary}

PageTimeByChange
Main.Wiki SandboxAugust 26, 2004, at 07:27 PM  
Pm Wiki De.Edit VariablesJuly 01, 2025, at 06:07 AMMFWolffupdate $EnableNotSavedWarning (-194)
Pm Wiki.Edit VariablesJune 30, 2025, at 02:15 PMPetkoupdate $EnableNotSavedWarning (-152)
Pm Wiki.Change LogJune 30, 2025, at 01:30 PMPetko$EnableMinorEditKeepMeta change into array. (+0)
PITS.00623June 29, 2025, at 08:25 AMPetko$EnableMinorEditKeepMeta = ['time', 'author', 'csum']; (+25)
Cookbook.Attach Image SizeJune 29, 2025, at 05:16 AMPetkoAdd usage, size of individual images, fix mailing list link (+414)
PITS.01504June 25, 2025, at 11:32 AMReiner(+40)
Cookbook.B 3June 23, 2025, at 08:41 AMPetko20250623: Add 'nbcomments' class name to the "(N comments)" line. (+0)
Cookbook.WorseJune 22, 2025, at 07:12 PMPetko20250622: reload after save (+107)
Pm Wiki De.Security VariablesJune 21, 2025, at 05:30 AMMFWolffrm empty lines (-3)
PITS.01523June 20, 2025, at 04:22 PMThom Jeera(+16)
Pm Wiki De.Sample Config File LocalizationJune 19, 2025, at 08:02 PMMFWolffupdate of translation (+308)

Add the pagelist to the page of your choice, specifying group, name, count, etc pagelist parameters

(:pagelist fmt=#recentlychanged)

Please note that it is very much faster and less heavy for PmWiki to use trail=Group.RecentChanges count=7 instead of group=Group order=-time count=7. To list all 7 most recent changes, you could have trail=Site.AllRecentChanges count=7. --Petko April 21, 2009, at 06:50 PM

fmt=#recentchanges

>>comment<<
[[#recentchanges]]
(:template defaults order=-time name=-GroupAttributes,-Site.AllRecentChanges,-Site.LastChanged,-RecentChanges,-RecentUploads,-SiteAdmin.Blocklist-*:)
(:template first:)
||width=* 
||!Page ||! Time||!By ||!Change ||
(:template each:)
||''[[{=$FullName} | {=$Groupspaced}.{=$Namespaced}]]'' || [[{=$FullName}?action=diff | {=$LastModified}]]||(:if !equal {=$LastModifiedBy}:)[[~{=$LastModifiedBy}]](:ifend:) ||{=$LastModifiedSummary} ||
[[#recentchangesend]]
>>font-size:smaller<<

(:pagelist group={*$Group} fmt=#recentchanges count=7:)

(:template defaults order=-time name=-GroupAttributes,-Site.AllRecentChanges,-Site.LastChanged,-RecentChanges,-RecentUploads,-SiteAdmin.Blocklist-*:) (:template first:)

PageTimeByChange

(:template each:)

{=$Groupspaced}.{=$Namespaced}{=$LastModified}{=$LastModifiedBy}{=$LastModifiedSummary}

PageTimeByChange
Cookbook.Attach Image SizeJune 29, 2025, at 05:16 AMPetkoAdd usage, size of individual images, fix mailing list link (+414)
Cookbook.B 3June 23, 2025, at 08:41 AMPetko20250623: Add 'nbcomments' class name to the "(N comments)" line. (+0)
Cookbook.WorseJune 22, 2025, at 07:12 PMPetko20250622: reload after save (+107)
Cookbook.AdministrationJune 19, 2025, at 07:57 AMPetko(-27)
Cookbook.Filterable-TalkJune 17, 2025, at 04:32 PMPetkoautofocus=1 (+195)
Cookbook.Reindex CategoriesJune 17, 2025, at 11:45 AMPetko20250617 Update to keep existing metadata that is possible since 2.4.6. (+74)
Cookbook.FoxJune 06, 2025, at 06:40 PMHansBupdate (+1)

Add the pagelist to the page of your choice, specifying group, name, count, etc pagelist parameters

(:pagelist fmt=#recentchanges)

This lists differently from the standard Recent Changes as follows

  • it does not display deleted pages
  • it does show all pages that are updated as the result of a change, eg RecentChanges, RecentUploads, LastChanged, AllRecentChanges
  • if there are zero length files in the page store they are all shown as having changed now.
  • it displays other pages that are updated, eg GroupAttributes, Category pages, SiteAdmin,Blocklist-* pages

Release Notes

If the recipe has multiple releases, then release notes can be placed here. Note that it's often easier for people to work with "release dates" instead of "version numbers".

See Also

Contributors

  • Simon

Comments

See discussion at PagelistRecentChanges-Talk

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