Revision as of 18:23, 19 September 2012

Editing the UI

Edit the sidebar

Mediawiki:Sidebar

Edit the site notice (the text displayed above the content of every page)

Mediawiki:Sitenotice

The above pages, and more, for modifying the layout and UI content

mw:Category:Interface_messages

[[x2:partners]]

Add custom HTML to the template

Edit VectorTemplate::execute() in public_html/skins/Vector.php (a backup of this skin has been made in Backup/Vector, in case anything should go wrong). The body begins after these lines:

                // Output HTML Page
                $this->html( 'headelement' );

Miscellaneous

Change the syntax highlighting CSS

MediaWiki:Geshi.css

Purging a cached page (i.e. if the sidebar or site notice is out of date)

Add "&action=purge" to the end of the page's url and re-request the page.

Globally purging all cached pages and objects (more useful but more involved)

Log into the server via SSH and run clearCache.sh; that should change the modification time on LocalSettings.php, which will, due how the dynamic $wgCacheEpoch variable is set, invalidate all cached pages and thus regenerate them. Said variable's declaration is at the end of the file:

$wgCacheEpoch = gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) );

Create a URL shorthand for linking to another site

For example, one has been made for www.x2engine.com so that the "About X2Engine" in the footer could be made a link to the main X2Engine site:

INSERT INTO interwiki (iw_prefix, iw_url, iw_local, iw_trans) VALUES ("x2", "http://www.x2engine.com/$1", 1, 0);

That interwiki entry transforms (for example) the code

[[x2:partners/|About X2Engine]]

into

<a href="http://www.x2engine.com/partners/">About X2Engine</a>