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Starter Pack

Questions answered by this recipe

Where do I find a version of PmWiki ready to go out of the box, with proven recipe enhancements?

Here is a good place to start.

1. download and install the current version of PmWiki
   The following may be of use:
   • Cookbook:InstallOnIIS, Cookbook:PHP
2. Download StarterPack.zip Δ and unzip as supplied into the PmWiki directories

Description

PmWiki augmented with a number of proven customisations and recipes, and installed with PmWiki's

This recipe supplies the following changes to enhance the default PmWiki configuration

Skin template

A separate skin is supplied as the basis for the StarterPack. The skin consists of the file starterpack.tmpl and starterpack.css in the directory /pub/skin/starterpack/

• the order on which CSS files are included is changed to allow local CSS to override global (PmWiki) CSS.
• the footer is sourced from a wiki page, rather than hard coded in the template

Changes to the default PmWiki css are:

Additional page store

The StarterPack includes an additional page store, starterpacklib.d which incorporates the StarterPack documentation, and changed PmWiki pages. Details of the changed PmWiki pages are given with the recipes below.

config.php

The StarterPack configuration is

• Per group subdirecories is enabled for wiki pages
• Per page subdirectories is enabled for file uploads
• a number of recipes (see below) are included

Extensions

• Cookbook:All group header - Pages Site.AllGroupFooter? and Site.AllGroupFooter? are supplied
• Cookbook:Attachlinks - Attach: links to display by default without the "Attach:" prefix (does not work for [[Attach:]])
• Cookbook:Attachtable - Actions to rename, delete & restore deleted attachments, as well as an attachlist replacement to use those actions, show file types and list attachment references

• Cookbook:CaseCorrection - Makes PmWiki intelligently case-insensitive

• Cookbook:Edit templates - A default edit template is supplied

• Cookbook:Excel paste (patched version) - Copy and paste spreadsheet tables (e.g., from Excel) into pages (patched to support embedded line feeds, trim spaces and add prior patch (make first row a header)
• Cookbook:Favicon - Display a Favicon for the website
• Cookbook:InlineDiff - Shows the difference between 2 versions by highlighting the changes in markup on word level
• Cookbook:NewGroupBox - Input box to create new wiki groups from predefined template pages
• Cookbook:NewPageBoxPlus - How to provide a form or box to allow users to create new pages
• Cookbook:RandomQuote - Insert random quotes or markup into a page
• Cookbook:RecentUploadsLog - List all uploaded files in the RecentUploads pages
• Cookbook:RecipeCheck - Check for new versions of recipes on pmwiki.org
• Cookbook:RowspanInSimpleTables - Markup to add a rowspan attribute on a simple table cell
• Cookbook:SkinChange - change skin via query or cookie setting
• Cookbook:Toggle - links or buttons for toggling (hiding/showing) div sections and objects on a page
• Cookbook:Thumb List² - A thumbnail picture gallery for PmWiki

• Cookbook:UploadForm - Alternative file upload form

• Cookbook:Wiki footer - Make the page footer a wiki page, like the sidebar

Addition PmWiki features supported

• Blocklist - enable with automatic update from PmWiki, chongqed.org(approve sites) and MoinMaster(approve sites)

Notes

All changes to files are clearly marked on each line with the comment StarterPack .

Recipes are chosen for the following reasons:

• the recipe supplies or enhances generally useful PmWiki features, eg image display, rather than, say source code display.
• the recipe is currently and actively being supported by the author or community
• the recipe is simple and straight forward to install and maintain, is should not require much more than a simple copy of files and single line configuration file update

Release notes

See also

• Internationalizations
• How To Get Assistance?

Contributors

Comments

See discussion at StarterPack-Talk