PmWiki /
Features of PmWiki
Costs & reputation
License | |
User support | On website, eg FAQ, troubleshooting guide, specific error messages descriptions, and by mailing lists (also in German, Spanish, French) |
Reviews | Favorable |
System | |
Server Requirements | PHP 5.3 or newer recommended, 5.2 minimum; developed and tested with the latest PHP version (7.4 as of January 2020); can run in safe mode.
See web hosts and the Standalone recipe. |
Page storage | Flat files; no need for a database. Can handle thousands of pages. See Flat File Advantages. |
Upgrades | By simply copying new version files or export from the Subversion repository |
Addons | There are nearly 400 Cookbook:. recipes. |
Security | |
SPAM protection | By blocking words, IP addresses (option), and by limiting the quantity of non-approved URLs (option), by encrypting the email address (addon) |
Passwords | Page, group or site based, see also passwords administration |
User authentication | Available as an option (AuthUser) or an addon (UserAuth). |
Features | |
Features at a glance | and a detailed list of Features |
Page editing | Similar to others wikis. Has a button bar and Preview capability. Handles simultaneous edits. Optional save-as-draft feature. Addon for spell checking |
Page history | History pages include Restore links. Configurable number of days and number of revisions of history. |
Free links and WikiWords | Wiki Word links are an option in version 2.1. In previous releases they were enabled by default. |
Intersites links (InterMap) | Configurable by the administrator or defined in the Site.InterMap? page. |
Groups and hierarchy | One level only, handles menus and styling by groups, see Wiki architecture |
Categories | Organise and find related pages with special Category markup. |
Navigation trails | Allow wiki authors to create "trails" through sequences of pages in the wiki. |
Search tools | Search the entire site or the current group. Administrator may exclude pages from appearing in search results. Pre-defined searches are also available. |
Email-notification of revised pages | Option, by admin, site based: enable Notify in the local/config of the page(s) you want to monitor. |
Web Feeds | Optional RSS, Atom, and Dublin Core syndication feeds as well as feed links to enable autodiscovery of the feeds |
Podcasting | Web feed enclosures are supported. |
Publish as static pages | Available as Cookbook recipe Cookbook.StaticPages? |
International versions | See Other languages. Handles accented characters and UTF-8. |
Page renaming | addon |
Site Map | Available via the pagelists directive. |
Backlinks | Available since version 2.0.beta33 |
New page templates | new page edit templates? |
Layout | |
Skins | By admin, can be table or CSS based, addon for switching by users and interactive configuration |
Layout modifications | By admin and by user, see group headers |
Printable layout | Suppress menu, make link list and miscellaneous reformatting |
Style and custom markup | |
Tables | Tables and Table Directives |
Table Edit | Addon - table editor |
Page table of contents | Addon - see also numbered headers |
Inclusion in page | Of other pages (part or complete) |
Anchors | In same or other page |
User uploaded attachments | Option to set |
Images resizing and galleries | By addons, see also the category images |
Forms | Forms may be embedded in wiki pages. |
In browser drawing edit | By addon, need java enabled on browser. |
User preferences | Option. See also the SkinChange add-on. |
HTML details | |
Handles HTML meta informations | Keywords (site, group or page based), automatic noindex, nofollow for utility pages |
HTML compatibility | XHTML 1.0 transitional, may differ for miscellaneous skins |
allow embedding of html in wiki pages | Cookbook:enable HTML |
Browser caching | Option |
Nice URLs? | See also $EnablePathInfo in LayoutVariables
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Hide e-mail addresses? | Addon |
Miscellaneous addons | |
Calendar | Each date becomes a wiki page. There are two possible implementations: WikiCalendar and PmCalendar. CopyPasteCalendar? is another option (relies solely upon core PmWiki features). |
Latex in Wiki? | |
Publish trails | |
Forum | There are 2 addons: Forum and SimpleForum |
Guestbook | |
For the full list ... | See the Cookbook recipes. |
Administration details | |
Wiki farms | To have multiple wikis with a single installation of the wiki engine |
Missing and orphan pages search | Option - You can also list orphan and missing attachments (addon) |
Handling of features requests and bug reports |
Elements which are not listed as features and are strengths of PmWiki :
- Small code base (under 2 MB)
- Many parameters are handled by pages, without having the need to open system files, which greatly helps the Wiki administration.
- While there is only one major developer, there is a very active community and most addons are from independent people.
Add a new feature you would like to see in PmWiki as a new PITS? entry marked Feature Request, or use one of the mailing lists to brainstorm new features.
This page may have a more recent version on pmwiki.org: PmWiki:PmWikiFeatures, and a talk page: PmWiki:PmWikiFeatures-Talk.