Create Your Own Page Templates
There are two ways for wiki administrators to set up templates that will pre-populate certain pages as they are created.
Method 1: In any wikigroup, create a page named ‘Template’.
Thereafter, the contents of that page will be used to generate the pre-filled, default (but removable) contents of any new page created in that wikigroup.
Method 1 example: Create Profiles/Template, and on it list the kinds of information that users of your website might want to make available about themselves.
Thereafter, any new Profile page will be pre-populated with that text. The pre-populating text is added only at the time of the page’s creation, and can be removed by the user whenever he/she likes.
Method 2: In this ‘Templates’ wikigroup, an administrator can create a page with a name in the format ‘SomethingTemplate’.
Then the contents of that page will be used to generate the pre-filled, default (but removable) contents of any new page named ‘Something’ created in any wikigroup for which Method 1, above, has not been employed.
Method 2 example: Create Templates/HomePageTemplate, and Templates/GroupFooterTemplate. Put text and/or wikicode on them that is appropriate to the HomePages and GroupFooters of wikigroups.
Whenever the HomePage and GroupFooter of a new wikigroup are subsequently created, those pages will be pre-populated with that text and/or code. The pre-populating material is added only at the time when the page is created, and can be edited or removed.
For more information, read http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/EditTemplates
This site’s config.php file’s settings:
- use ‘Template’ in the current group if it exists,
- otherwise use 'Templates.{$Name}Template'
$EditTemplatesFmt = array('{$Group}.Template','Templates.{$Name}Template');