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

[Paul Giacherio]

Hey Thanks-
I really love PmWiki, and have used it for a number of clients,
because it's so easy to manipulate and customize. It really can make
site maintenance almost trivial.

paulgaicherio
paulgiacherio.tumblr.com

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jo Vermeulen <jo.vermeulen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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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