How can I configure my site to always exclude wiki-related pages from searches?

Add list=normal to the searchbox or searchresults directives

Try the following in your local/config.php file. See also Cookbook:SearchPatterns.

## Exclude Certain pages / groups from search results.
$SearchPatterns['default'][] = '!\\.(All)?Recent(Changes|Uploads|Comments)$!';
$SearchPatterns['default'][] = '!\\.Group(Print)?(Header|Footer|Attributes)$!';
$SearchPatterns['default'][] = '!\\.(Left|Right|Side)(Bar|Menu|Note)$!';
$SearchPatterns['default'][] = '!^Site\\.!';
$SearchPatterns['default'][] = '!^PmWiki\\.!';

If you add $SearchPatterns['default']... to exclude groups and pages from pagelist and search output, you can include the omitted pages by using "list=all" in the pagelist or search parameters.

How do I turn on wiki word spacing in page lists?

Try the following in your Site.LocalTemplates?

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!!!fmt=#simplelist

Simple list of page names, without the Group name. 

[@
[[#simplelist]]
[[({=$Group}/){=$Name}|{=$Titlespaced}]],
[[#simplelistend]]
@]

Can I customize the text in the button generated by the (:searchbox:) directive?

The searchbox directive does not appear to support a parameter to change the label of the associated submit button.

How to list only pages that have their title (*not* name) starting with A, B, C,...

(:pagelist $Title=A*,B*,C* :)

How do I search for pages changed by an particular author?

It would be useful to provide Author= (similar to name= or group=).

Try using the Cookbook:AuthorContribution recipe.

This recipe provides a way to automatically keep a list of the pages each author has edited by producing an "Author Contributions" page with a name of Profiles.<author's name>-Contrib for each author that has a page in the Profiles group.

Contributions by authors without profile pages are placed in a single Profiles.Other-Contrib page.

You may try pagelist using $LastModifiedBy variable, as in : (:pagelist / list=normal group=-PmWiki $LastModifiedBy=-X:) or (:pagelist / list=normal group=-PmWiki $LastModifiedBy=X:) to print the list of pages last edited by all but X or edited by x (Petko's pagelist).

How to exclude deleted pages from (:pagelist trail=Site.AllRecentChanges fmt=#title count=15 order=-time :)

Use (:pagelist trail=Site.AllRecentChanges if="exists {=$FullName}" ...:)

order=ctime displays the pages in the order they were created. Is there a way to reverse this (so that the newest page appears first)?

Yes. Use order=-ctime (note the "minus").

A pagelist excludes the current page from the generated list if "list=normal", how can the current page be included while retaining all the other benefits of using "list=normal"?

Set in config.php this: $SearchPatterns['normal']['self'] = ""; If you want to be able to use both behaviors, set this in config.php:

  $SearchPatterns['normalself'] = array(
  'recent' => '!\.(All)?Recent(Changes|Uploads)$!',
  'group' => '!\.Group(Print)?(Header|Footer|Attributes)$!');

Then use list=normalself on pages that should include themselves in the results.

Is it possible to return a list of all pages that are not protected by the site password?

Perhaps Cookbook:AuthListShort might help.

I want to list all the pages in a wikigroup dynamically, how do I do that?

You can use: (:pagelist group={*$Group} :) to list pages in the current Group. See PageVariables (note the "*" in {*$Group}).

How do I search for pages changed after a particular date?

...

Using pagelist with the link-parameter causes on Strato an "Internal Server Error:"

I had a similar error on Free.fr due to a local misconfiguration of PHP4. Switching the website to PHP5 solved the issue. As Strato supports different versions of PHP4 and 5, you should try all and tell us if/when it works. (Read the FAQs: you need to rename your index.php to index.php5, or add in your /.htaccess the code: "AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php"). --Petko? February 16, 2008, at 08:35 PM

How do I capture the output from "fmt=count" into a page text variable?

Is it possible to find backlinks to all pages in a group, or multiple pages?

eg
(:pagelist group=Cookbook link=Category/:)
or
(:pagelist group=Cookbook link=Category/One,Category.Two:)
or
(:pagelist group=Category link=Cookbook.*:)

No, see and vote for 00908?

Can I pass a named parameter to a pagelist, eg a number to set a thumbnail size?

For example (:pagelist fmt=#randomimage px=80:) so that the parameter value can be referenced withing the page list template? Yes, in the same way as documented here IncludeOtherPages#includevariable

How can I include backlinks to pages which only link to current page via pagelist? i.e page "A" has a pagelist which generates a list of links to "B","C","D" ... a backlinks pagelist on page "B" does not list page "A" because there is no REAL link from "A" to "B".