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! You might want to follow or contribute to the documentation guidelines.

Table of Contents

• Beginner Topics for Creating/Editing Pages in PmWiki
• Intermediate Editing Topics
• Wiki Structures: Organizing and Protecting Pages in PmWiki
• PmWiki Site Administration
• Troubleshooting
• About PmWiki

Beginner Topics for Creating and Editing Pages

• Basic editing
• Creating new pages
• Links
• Images
• Text formatting rules

Intermediate Editing Topics

• Uploads
• Simple tables
• Advanced tables
• WikiStyles
  • WikiStyle examples
• Page directives
• Include other pages
• InterMap links
• Conditional markup
• Page variables
• Markup master index
• Deleting pages
• Simultaneous edits

Organizing and Protecting Pages

• Wiki Groups - organize pages into groups
• Group Headers - add content to the beginning of all pages in a WikiGroup
• WikiTrails - create paths (trails) through pages
• Page history - view/recover previous versions of a page
• Passwords - password protect pages and groups
• Categories - organize pages into categories

PmWiki Site Administration

• Installation
• Initial setup tasks
• Local customizations
• Skins - Change your site’s overall appearance
• Upgrades - Upgrade your site to a newer version of PmWiki
• Backup and Restore? - Be prepared for disaster recovery

• Per-group customizations
• Passwords administration
• Uploads administration - Configure your site for file attachments
• Internationalizations
• Wiki Farms - Run multiple sites using one copy of PmWiki

• Custom InterMap
• Custom markup
• Custom WikiStyles
• Available actions
• Troubleshooting

• MailPosts
• Finding orphaned and missing pages
• Web feeds - generating syndication feeds with RSS and Atom
• Url approvals
• Variables
• Functions

• Page file format - Create wiki formatted pages in bulk and for upload to your pmwiki site

• Changes from PmWiki 1
• Upgrading from PmWiki 1

About PmWiki

• Audiences
• Contributors
• Mailing lists
• PmWikiPhilosophy
• Design notes
• References?
• Glossary