Extension:PageTemplates

**MediaWiki extensions manual**
PageTemplates; Release status: stable
Description	Choose from different page templates during page creation.
Author(s)	Hallo Welt! GmbH
Maintainer(s)	Hallo Welt! GmbH
Latest version	-
Compatibility policy	For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.
MediaWiki	1.43 (LTS)
Database changes	Yes
	Parameters $wgPageTemplatesForceNamespace; $wgPageTemplatesExcludeRegex; $wgPageTemplatesHideIfNotInTargetNs; $wgPageTemplatesHideDefaults; $wgPageTemplatesExcludeNs;
	Added rights pagetemplatesadmin-viewspecialpage;
	Hooks used BSApiNamespaceStoreMakeData; BSUsageTrackerRegisterCollectors; BeforePageDisplay; HtmlPageLinkRendererBegin; LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates; MWStakeCommonUIRegisterSkinSlotComponents; MediaWikiPerformAction; MessagesPreLoad; NamespaceManager::editNamespace; NamespaceManager::getMetaFields; NamespaceManagerBeforePersistSettings; NamespaceManagerCollectNamespaceProperties; SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal;
	Hooks provided BSPageTemplatesModifyTargetUrl; BSPageTemplatesBeforeRender;
Licence	GNU General Public License 3.0 only
Download	Download extension ; Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub); Gerrit code review; Git commit log; Download source tarball;
	Translate the PageTemplates extension if it is available at translatewiki.net

This extension is mainly supported in an external venue: BlueSpice Community Forum.
If you need help, you should post there, and not on the talk page.

PageTemplates allows users to select from predefined content structures (e.g., directory, layout, content elements) when creating a new page.

Usage / features

Create a template with pre-defined content elements (headers, categories, boxes, etc.) in the template namespace.
Create a page template using the special page PageTemplatesAdmin to give the page template a name and a description.
Each page template is linked to an existing template in the namespace Templates.
Page templates can be assigned to namespaces so that the template is only available in those namespaces.
The page template selection is shown during page creation.

Installation

Add the repo url (https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-BlueSpicePageTemplates

.git) as a "vcs repository" and the package name (mediawiki/BlueSpicePageTemplates) and version to the require section of your composer.local.json. Example:

{
	"repositories": [
		{
			"type": "vcs",
			"url": "https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-BlueSpicePageTemplates
.git"
		}
	],
	"require": {
		"mediawiki/BlueSpicePageTemplates": "BlueSpicePageTemplates"
	}
}

Run the following command in your MediaWiki installation path

composer update --no-dev

Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

wfLoadExtension( 'BlueSpicePageTemplates' );

Done Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

External Links

This extension was originally made for BlueSpice . BlueSpice is a MediaWiki distribution for enterprises and organizations. It enhances MediaWiki, in particular in the areas of quality management, process support, administration, editing and security. This extension is bundled with BlueSpice free.

BlueSpice:

Usage / features

See also

Installation

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