The pages below describe various aspects of #using|using, #admin|administering and #troubleshoot|troubleshooting a Pm Wiki installation, as well as aspects of the community.

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• Introduction

Beginner Topics for Creating and Editing Pages

• editing? - Pm Wiki's basic edit syntax
• new pages? - How to create a new page
• Links - Multiple mechanisms for creating links
• Images - Placing images in pages
• formatting rules? - A list of some of the markup sequences available

Intermediate Editing Topics

• master index? - Tabulation of all Pm Wiki markup
• Uploads - Allow authors to upload files, also known as page attachments
• Tables - Simple tables with double pipe markup, one row per line
• directives? - Directives for table processing
• styles? - Modifying the style of page contents
  • style examples? - Styling text for colour and other attributes
• keys? - Access keys are keyboard shortcuts for tasks that would otherwise require a mouse
• directives? - Directives to specify page titles, descriptions, keywords, and display
• other pages? - Include contents from other Pm Wiki pages
• InterMap links - Interwiki links definition and use
• markup? - The if directive allows portions of a page to be included or excluded from rendering
• variables? - variables that are associated with pages
• text variables? - Page variables automatically made available through natural or explicit page markup
• expressions? - String and formatting operations
• Forms - How you can embed input forms into wiki pages
• edits? - Handling multiple attempts to edit a page nearly simultaneously

Organizing and Protecting Pages

• structure? - Pm Wiki structural support for page organization
• groups? - Organising pages into related groups
• headers? - Group Header and Group Footer page usage
• trails? - Trails from lists items from a single page
• history? - History of previous edits to a page
• Passwords - General use of passwords and login
• Categories - Categories are a way to organize and find related pages
• lists? - Searching and listing pages by multiple criteria with templated output
• - Get a list of files uploaded and attached to a group using (:attachlist:) (Directives to specify page titles, descriptions, keywords, and display)
• pages? - Removing wiki pages
• elements -
• pages -

Pm Wiki Site Administration

Installation and maintenance

• Installation - Obtaining and installing Pm Wiki
• setup tasks? - First steps following a fresh installation
• Upgrades - How to upgrade an existing Pm Wiki installation
• and Restore? - background information and some basic backup and restore procedures
• administration - Administration of Pm Wiki uploads
• Security - Resources for securing your Pm Wiki installation

Customisation

• markup? - Using the Markup() function for custom wiki syntax; migration to PHP 5.5
• wiki styles? - Predefined Pm Wiki styles & adding custom wiki styles
• Internationalizations - Language internationalisation of web pages
• customizations? - Customize your Pm Wiki installation through config.php and local.css
• customizations? - How to customize a subset of your wiki
• Skins - Change the look and feel of part or all of Pm Wiki
• templates? - Skin templates (.tmpl files)
• Preferences - Customisable browser setting preferences: Access keys, edit form
• feeds? - Web feed notification of changes
• Farms? - Running multiple wikis from a single installation

Troubleshooting

• | Frequently answered questions
• | Answers to some other questions
• Candidate - more answered questions
• Questions
• to get assistance
• Troubleshooting - Advice for troubleshooting an installation, keywords: deprecated, preg_replace, crypt, blank pages, headers, .flock, upgrade, create_function
• actions? - documentation for developers

Security

• AuthUser - Authorization system that uses usernames and passwords
• Blocklist - Blocking IP addresses, phrases, and expressions to counteract spam and vandalism.
• Notify - How to receive email messages whenever pages are changed on the whole wiki site, individual groups or selected watchlists of pages
• administration - More password options for the administrator
• count? - Link references counts on pages
• approvals? - Require approval of Url links

Development

• Guidelines - Guidelines for creating, distributing, and maintaining a recipe for the Cookbook.
• Variables - Variables available for local customisation
• Functions - How some of the functions in pmwiki.php work
• file format? - Create wiki formatted pages in bulk and for upload to your pmwiki site

About Pm Wiki

• Audiences - Patrick Michaud's comments regarding the "audiences" for which Pm Wiki was designed
• Contributors - A list of contributors to Pm Wiki development and improvement
• lists? - The email discussion lists available and their archives
• philosophy - This page describes some of the ideas that guide the design and implementation of Pm Wiki
• notes? - Some of the features and notes about Pm Wiki's design decisions
• notes? - Notes about new versions, important for upgrades
• log? - Log of changes made to Pm Wiki by Release
• References - References to Pm Wiki media coverage
• Glossary - Terms related to Pm Wiki
• Introduction loop trail