Wikka Developer Blog

With the release of version 1.2, we introduced support for 100%-modular themes in WikkaWiki. We believe a wiki engine should not force you to use its default layout: the best wikis are those that can be modified to seamlessly run behind the scenes without betraying their presence or to match the look and feel of an existing website.

In this post we’ll guide you through the creation of a custom theme.
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A patch for WikkaWiki 1.2 (1.2-p1) has been released to fix some minor issues with the support of themes.
Changes on top of 1.2 are described on this page. We recommend installing 1.2-p1 if you experienced problems displaying themes with 1.2 (users potentially affected are those running on Windows servers and Apache servers with mod_rewrite enabled).

If your wiki runs on Apache with rewrite_mode on and depending on your server configuration, you may have noticed some glitches with the display of themes. The kubrick theme, for one, doesn’t seem to correctly load the embedded graphics. The fix is simple: rewrite rules should be disabled in the templates folder. Simply create a file with the following content and save it as templates/.htaccess:

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<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
        # turn on rewrite engine
        RewriteEngine off
</ifmodule>

The graphics called by the stylesheets of the themes should now be loaded. The same fix may need to be applied to plugins/templates if you are installing custom themes.

I am proud to announce the release of WikkaWiki 1.2–possibly the most important Wikka upgrade since years.

1.2 is a major release introducing new functionality such as: support for 100%-modular themes, a completely redesigned default layout, menu templates, an advanced table markup, among other enhancements. Read the rest of this entry »