This page attempts to answer the more common questions you might have. Many of the answers refer you to other pages for details.
Questions
Q How do I get my question answered?
A 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!)
A See this FAQ, Troubleshooting, or try a Search.
Error messages
Q What does warning message or error message “xxxxx” mean?
A Error/warning questions and answers are on the Troubleshooting page.
Images
Q How do I insert pictures on wiki pages?
A See Images.
Spam
Q I’m getting a lot of spam on my wiki site. How can I password protect the pages?
A See Security, UrlApprovals, and the Cookbook:Blocklist2 recipe.
Summary pages
Q Why are ‘RecentChanges’ pages editable?
A 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?
A See Web Feeds.
Disable formatting
Q How do I put plain text into a wiki page and disable wiki formatting?
A 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?
A The following pages probably need to be accessible (see Site.Site):
Category: Questions