PmWiki, is many things, and like most good software, it continues to grow and develop. It began as a structure for building Wiki sites, and has evolved into a mature Content Management System (CMS), built with PHP. It has a different founding philosophy from most other Wiki and CMS systems, and for the way my mind works, it has been the best fit for hands-on "on-the-job-training," learning as I learn-as-I-go, developing web-sites and web-tools.
PmWiki started as a flexible and easily customized Wiki framework, much like WordPress has grown from a Blog framework. For my taste, there are real advantages to a flat-file structure and other features of PmWiki which allow easier control of appearance and features, and which are also easily customized across distinct Groups of pages, and even single pages.
It has a straight forward, open-source PHP base, making it easy to customize and expand. The documentation is extensive, although admittedly not always the easiest to use. The code itself is pretty well commented, and I have learned a great deal by taking things apart and seeing how they work, as I create new features and customize how I want my pages to work.
Updating sites has proven easier and more efficient for me than WordPress, and backup and migration are done with simple data transfers, since the whole Wiki is flat-file based. I have no doubt there are many who prefer other systems, I do not pretend to think or code like the majority of programmers today. Which is part of why I have started {Snippets Pub} in the first place. If you like what we are doing, if you appreciate the mind-set of {Snippets Pub}, you may well find it is worth your while to look into PmWiki.
I in fact, have hopes that as this community grows, we can expand the PmWiki community and improve the support for this wonderful tool.
With a special thanks to Paul Michaud (PM) the creator of PmWiki, and to Petko Yotov who has carried the torch for many years now supporting, maintaining and improving PmWiki and the PmWiki community.
Read on in thePmWiki section of this site, or go visit https://www.pmwiki.org itself!
Cheers,
Kirk
Siqveland