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.