Plugins

DokuWiki has a flexible plugin API which allows to extend its functionality, be it additional syntax modes, custom action modes, new export formats and a lot more. Depending on the plugins purpose, a plugin can either consist of one, or more, of the following plugin types.

At the moment DokuWiki features five different plugin types.

• Syntax Plugins extend DokuWiki's basic syntax.
• Action Plugins can be used to extend or replace many aspects of DokuWiki's core operations, from saving wikipages to adding new action modes.
• Admin Plugins can provide administration functionality for DokuWiki - these plugins are accessible to superusers and managers via the Admin button.
• Helper Plugins can be used to provide functionality to many other plugins, so each plugin doesn't have to re-implement a certain function over and over again.
• Renderer Plugins allow to create new export modes and to replace the standard DokuWiki xhtml renderer.