Questions

Q How do I get my question answered?

The quickest and best way is to join the pmwiki-users mailing list and post your question there. If it really is a frequently-asked question, it will eventually be added to this page.

An alternative way is to leave your question on the Questions page.

Getting help

Q Where can I get help with PmWiki? (This is a pretty vague question!)

See this FAQ, Troubleshooting, or try a Search.

Error messages

Q What does warning message or error message “xxxxx” mean?

Error/warning questions and answers are on the Troubleshooting page.

Images

Q How do I insert pictures on wiki pages?

See Images.

Spam

Q I’m getting a lot of spam on my wiki site. How can I password protect the pages?

See Security, UrlApprovals, and the Cookbook:Blocklist2 recipe.

Summary pages

Q Why are ‘RecentChanges’ pages editable?

You might want to edit these pages if a spammer creates a page with an unsavory name. To prevent others from editing these pages, insert the following lines into your local/config.php file. Editing then requires the admin password.

## Require admin password to edit RecentChanges (etc.) pages.
if ($action=='edit'
    && preg_match('/\\.(All)?RecentChanges$/', $pagename))
  { $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = '*'; }

Q How do I generate RSS feeds from PmWiki?

See Web Feeds.

Disable formatting

Q How do I put plain text into a wiki page and disable wiki formatting?

You can use the [@TEXT GOES HERE@] markup as explained in the section Escape Sequence TextFormattingRules. Note that this preserves any text file formatting such as newlines and spaces.

Read-access to pages in the Site wikigroup

Q What pages in the Site wikigroup need to be unrestricted for reading by any user of the wiki?

The following pages probably need to be accessible (see Site.Site):

Category: Questions