To create a link to another page, simply enclose the name of the page inside double brackets, as in [[Common People]]
or [[Television]]
. These result in links to Common People and Television, respectively.
PulpWiki ignores all spaces between words when creating a link from the text inside the double brackets, and will automatically capitalize words following spaces and other punctuation. Thus [[Different Class]]
, [[Different class]]
, and [[DifferentClass]]
all display differently but link to the same page.
A suffix can also be added to the end of a link, which becomes part of the link text but not the target. Thus [[wiki sandbox]]es
is a link to WikiSandbox but displays as wiki sandboxes.
Link text in (parentheses) will not be not displayed, so that [[(wiki) sandbox]]
links to WikiSandbox and displays as sandbox.
Finally, you can specify the link text via a vertical brace, thus [[WikiSandbox | a play area]]
, which links to WikiSandbox but displays as a play area. You can use an arrow (->
) to reverse the order of the text and target, as in [[a play area -> WikiSandbox]]
(a play area -> WikiSandbox).
[[PageName|+]]
creates a link to PageName and uses that page's title as the link text, eg [[Links|+]]
gives Links.
[[PageName|#]]
creates a reference link as shown below.
[[!PageName]]
creates a link to the PageName in the group called Category.
[[~Author]]
link creates a link to the page in the page called Author in the Profiles group. PmWiki will automatically generate that link for the current Author when it encounters three tilde characters (~
) in a row (~
~
~
). Adding a fourth tilde (~
~
~
~
) appends the current date and time.
To define a location within a page to which you may jump directly, use the markup [[#name]]
. This creates an "anchor" that uniquely identifies that location in the page. Then to have a link jump directly to that anchor, use one of
[[#name|link text]]
within the same page, or
[[PageName#name]]
or [[PageName#name|link text]]
for a location on another page
[[PageName(#name)]]
may be useful for hiding the anchor text in a link.
For example, here's a link to the Intermaps section, below.
Links to external sites simply begin with a prefix such as 'http:', 'ftp:', etc. Thus http://google.com/
and [[http://google.com/]]
both link to Google. As with the above, an author can specify the link text by using the vertical brace or arrow syntax, as in [[http://google.com/ | Google]]
and [[Google -> http://google.com]]
.
Links may also be specifed as References, so the target appears as an anonymous numeric reference rather than a textual reference. The following markup is provided to produce sequential reference numbering within a PmWiki page:
Formatting the link as: [[http://google.com |#]]
produces: # as the link.
Subsequent occurrence of the reference link format on the same page will be incremented automatically as per the following example: Entering [[http://pmwiki.com |#]]
produces #, [[#intermaps |#]]
produces #, and so on for further reference links.
See WikiGroup.
To have a link open in another window, use %newwin%
:
%newwin% [[http://google.com/ | Google]]
produces %newwin% Google