[pmwiki-users] Using PmWiki as an invisible wiki for a personal website

[Jo Vermeulen]

Thanks for providing another nice example of PmWiki as a CMS. That's a
beautiful website! The look and feel does not give any clue that it is
powered by a wiki under the hood :-)

Cheers,

-- Jo

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Paul Giacherio <paulgiacherio at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, I'll second that PmWiki can be a terrific CMS- and doesn't have
> to look like a typical wiki.
> [http://www.villageschool.us/index.php] for example.
>
> paulgiacherio
> paulgiacheiro.tumblr.c shows om <http://paulgiacheiro.tumblr.com>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Tegan Dowling <tmdowling at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Jo Vermeulen <jo.vermeulen at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I have been experimenting with a few wikis lately in order to use one as
> >> the backend for my personal website. I was partly motivated by an
> article
> >> about WikkaWiki [1] that described how it can be tuned to allow only the
> >> administrator to edit pages. Moreover, they also modify the skin to hide
> >> wiki actions and the typical wiki look and feel (see [2] for
> details). The
> >> reason I want to use a wiki as a backend for my website is that I want
> to
> >> focus on the content, and want to easily add a few things on my website
> or
> >> reorganize content.
> >> Although I did experiment a bit with WikkaWiki, I have also been looking
> >> into PmWiki because I like its features and customizability (amongst
> others
> >> flat files, the ability to upload, wiki trails and wiki groups).
> >> I was wondering how I can use PmWiki as an invisible wiki backend. I
> >> figured out how to allow only admins to edit pages, but I'm not sure how
> I
> >> can easily hide edit/view/history etc. actions. Is there any PHP
> variable
> >> that I can use in my template (I'm creating a custom skin) to hide the
> >> actions bar at the bottom of the page?
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >> [1]
> http://www.academicproductivity.com/2009/how-to-run-an-invisible-wiki/
> >> [2] http://docs.wikkawiki.org/InvisibleWiki
> >
> > I do this for almost all my sites; I call them "stealth wikis".  See
> > http://www.emergencydigital.com/Gallery
> >
> > Tegan Dowling
> > http://twitter.com/wikignome
> >
> >
> > "The future’s here already. It’s just unevenly distributed." -- William
> > Gibson
> >
> >
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