Install the plugin using the Plugin Manager and the download URL above, which points to latest version of the plugin. Refer to Plugins on how to install plugins manually.

Simply create a template file to use for your start pages. You can place an underscore before the name of the file so that it doesn't show up in the sitemap, but you will have to create the text file on the server manually (see Namespace Templates for more). Whenever a new namespace is created, a new start page for that namespace will be created as well. If you create a start page in a new namespace, the automatic one will be overwritten by yours. Generally this will be useful if you want your start pages to be navigational to other pages in the namespace (in which case, look at dir or pageindex to generate the content dynamically).

This functions a little differently from page templates, as it actually creates the page instead of autofilling the edit window when you go to create the page. Thus, the two features should be compatible.

Note that creating top-level pages doesn't call IO_NAMESPACE_CREATED, even if no other pages exist. You'll have to make the top-level one by hand.

As of the most recent update, these pages are created by the user who created the first page in the namespace. If the user does not have permissions to create the start page, it will not be created. This can be overridden in the settings, but introduces a security risk.

Template files are standard wiki syntax and can use (roughly) the same replacement patterns as namespace templates:

I've added a few more custom ones:

There are two configuration options:

1. Ordered List Itemtemplatefile points to the file to use as the template for new start pages.
2. silent hides alerts when the page is created. Uncheck for error messages if something is not working.

• add seeking maintainer notice (2020-06-08 17:20)
• removed debug line (2015-01-02 17:35)
• Added ability to force creation in spite of permissions (2015-01-02 17:15)
• removed test code (2015-01-02 16:56)
• added parent key (2015-01-02 16:51)
• Fixed creating as server issue (2015-01-02 16:02)
• updated last change date (2015-01-02 15:18)
• added configurable date shortcut (2015-01-02 15:17)

• 2013-07-19
  • Initial release
• 2015-01-02
  • New shortcut: @DATE=STRFTIME@
  • New shortcut: @PARENT@
  • Pages now are created as user
  • Added force create option
  • Fixed constantly outdated issue
  • Other minor fixes

• I plan to add support for strftime dates like namespace templates done
• I also want to be able to have different templates for different namespaces
• Could you also add support for the parent namespace? That way you could make a navigation page that automatically links to the previous namespace. done

Registers as IO_NAMESPACE_CREATED.

At first: Thanks for your plugin It helped me a lot.
I've seen you have written, that we should trigger io_wikipage_write if we can.
How about setting your function “AFTER” IO_NAMESPACE_CREATED instead of “BEFORE”?
Then we could use the function

saveWikiText($id, $wikitext, "autostartpage", $minor = false); 

> which triggers that event…
Greetings — StefanL 2014/01/21 09:16

Hi Stefan, thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure why I didn't do that in the first place.
It's been fixed now, and the docs have been updated. Cheers, charlesjuliank 2015/01/02 11:27