authors (basic) A key feature of WikiWikiWebs is the ease of creating links in the text of a document. PmWiki provides multiple mechanisms for creating such links.
Links to other pages
To create a link to another page, simply enclose the name of the page inside double square brackets, as in [[wiki sandbox]] or [[installation]]. These result in links to wiki sandbox and installation, respectively.
PmWiki creates a link by using the text inside the double brackets. It does this by removing spaces between words, and automatically capitalizing words following spaces or other punctuation (like ~). Thus [[Wiki sandbox]], [[wiki sandbox]], and [[WikiSandbox]] all display differently but create the same link to the page titled WikiSandbox.
In other words, PmWiki will automatically create the link path name using title case as a rule, but link text will display in the format you have entered it.
A suffix can also be added to the end of a link, which becomes part of the link text but not the target. Thus [[wiki sandbox]]es is a link to WikiSandbox but displays as wiki sandboxes.
Link text in (parentheses) will not be not displayed, so that [[(wiki) sandbox]] links to WikiSandbox and displays as sandbox.
Finally, you can specify the link text via a vertical brace, thus [[WikiSandbox | a play area]], which links to WikiSandbox but displays as a play area. You can use an arrow (->) to reverse the order of the text and target, as in [[a play area -> WikiSandbox]] (a play area).
Some sites also recognize WikiWord links, in which a WikiWord appearing in the text is automatically treated as a link to a page of the same name.
Link Shortcuts
[[PageName|+]] creates a link to PageName and uses that page’s title as the link text, eg [[Links|+]] gives Links.
[[PageName|#]] creates a reference link as shown below.
[[!PageName]]creates a link to the PageName in the group called Category.
[[~Author]] link creates a link to the page in the page called Author in the Profiles group. PmWiki will automatically generate that link for the current Author when it encounters three tilde characters (~) in a row (~~~). Adding a fourth tilde (~~~~) appends the current date and time.
Links to specific locations within a page
To define a location within a page to which you may jump directly, use the markup [[#name]]. This creates an “anchor” that uniquely identifies that location in the page. Then to have a link jump directly to that anchor, use one of
[[#name|link text]]within the same page, or[[PageName#name]]or[[PageName#name|link text]]for a location on another page- The form
[[PageName(#name)]]may be useful for hiding the anchor text in a link.
For example, here’s a link to the Intermaps section, below.
Links to external sites (URLs)
Links to external sites simply begin with a prefix such as ‘http:’, ‘ftp:’, etc. Thus http://google.com/ and [[http://google.com/]] both link to Google. As with the above, an author can specify the link text by using the vertical brace or arrow syntax, as in [[http://google.com/ | Google]] and [[Google -> http://google.com]].
Links as References
Links may also be specifed as References, so the target appears as an anonymous numeric reference rather than a textual reference. The following markup is provided to produce sequential reference numbering within a PmWiki page:
Formatting the link as: [[http://google.com |#]] produces: [1] as the link.
Subsequent occurrence of the reference link format on the same page will be incremented automatically as per the following example: Entering [[http://pmwiki.com |#]] produces [2], [[#intermaps |#]] produces [3], and so on for further reference links.
Intermaps
InterMap links are also supported (see InterMap). In particular, the Path: InterMap entry can be used to create links using relative or absolute paths on the current site (e.g., Path:../../somedir/foo.html or Path:/dir/something.gif).
Links to pages in other wiki groups
See WikiGroup.
Links that open a new browser window
To have a link open in another window, use %newwin%:
%newwin% http://www.pmichaud.comproduces http://www.pmichaud.com%newwin% [[http://google.com/ | Google]]produces Google%newwin% Main.WikiSandboxproduces Main.WikiSandbox
You can also specify that links should open in a new window via the target attribute:
%target=_blank% Any links on this line like http://www.pmichaud.com will open in a new window. |
Any links on this line like http://www.pmichaud.com will open in a new window. |
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Q How do I put a link that will open as a new window?
Use the %newwin% wikistyle, as in:
%newwin%http://www.example.com/ |
Q How do I place a mailing address in a page?
Use the mailto: markup, as in one of the following:
mailto:myaddress@example.com
[[mailto:myaddress@example.com]]
[[mailto:myaddress@example.com | email me]]
See also Cookbook:EProtect for information on protecting email addresses from spammers.
Q How do I make a WikiWord link to an external page instead of a WikiPage?
Use link markup. There are two formats:
[[http://www.example.com/ | WikiWord]]
[[WikiWord -> http://www.example.com/]]
Q How do I find all of the pages that link to another page (i.e., backlinks)?
Use the link= option of the (:pagelist:) directive, as in
(:pagelist link=SomePage:) -- show all links to SomePage
(:pagelist link={$FullName}:) -- show all links to the current page