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Setting up dokuwiki as flat files and folders (discuss.online)
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40841668

Been working on building a wiki over a number of months, but realize it is a ton of work. My goals are:

  • No Database, just files and folders for Dokuwiki
  • Get the experience to feel accessible and fun for users.
  • Make the wiki into something users can save locally and access offline.

The wiki coincides with various DIY and open source projects I'm experimenting with. Thought I'd share here, since this is about the extensions I'm actually using within Dokuwiki. Would love to add more, but just need them to work in daily use first.

Plugins in use:

  • SMTP, so users receive their login credentials.
  • Templator, for treating pages as templates for re-use.
  • Include plugin, for using pages within pages to organize content.
  • Open Document plugin - For export as odt
  • Pagelist, which I'm still learning for organizing tables.
  • Move plugin - for moving location of pages without breaking links.
  • Wrap plugin, for centering images and code blocks.
  • Tag, for adding tag browsing between page.
  • Footer, for clarifying info displayed at bottom of pages.
  • Catmenu, adds a clean, simple tree menu for the page being viewed.
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[–] slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I used dokuwiki extensively over the years to manage projects, organize data, and build public web pages now and then. It’s been a pleasure to use.

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool, would you care to share some of your favorites?

[–] slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Andreas’ “gallery” plugin was a great way to share my photos. I believe I tweaked the code to read exif data from the jpegs to extract the comment/description and display it as a caption.

“Graphviz” was also wonderful for generating flowcharts and organization charts for my work.

My present website runs on dokuwiki, though it’s pretty bare bones and not doing anything fancy. Just an English-Japanese bilingual setup.

djdupriest.org

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago

It looks fantastic! How did you get it so clean and modern? Bootstrap?