Installed Plugins

Plugins are mainly user-contributed add-ons that enhance and extend TWiki features and capabilities. A limited number of plugins are included in the core TWiki distribution - and most those can be removed - while the rest are optional, available from TWiki:Plugins/WebHome.

Here is a list of the plugins currently installed and enabled on this TWiki site:

• DefaultPlugin: This plugin can be used to specify some simple custom rendering rules. It also renders depreciated *_text_* as bold italic text.
• SpreadSheetPlugin: Add spreadsheet calculation like "$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to tables located in TWiki topics.
• BibliographyPlugin: cite bibliography in one topic and get a references list automatically created.
• CommentPlugin: Allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle.
• ConditionalPlugin: Adds conditional rendering (if/then/else)
• DoxygenPlugin: Creates links to doxygen-generated docs using %DOX{classname}%.
• EditTablePlugin: Edit TWiki tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
• EmbedFlashPlugin: Embeds a Macromedia Flash file
• EmbedPDFPlugin: embed PDF document in TWiki page
• EmbedQTPlugin: Embeds QuickTime files in a TWiki page
• FormQueryPlugin: Provides query capabilities across a database defined using forms and embedded tables in TWiki topics.
• GnuSkinPlugin: Supplements the bare bones GnuSkin^? theme for TWiki
• HiddenTextPlugin: Hide a block of text in the edit page
• InterwikiPlugin: Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the InterWikis topic
• MathModePlugin: This plugin allows you to include LaTeX formatted math in your TWiki pages.
• RenderListPlugin: Render bullet lists in a variety of formats
• SessionPlugin: Stores persistent information (like logon and skin information) in a session on the server identified transparently by ID passed from browser.
• SlideShowPlugin: Create web based presentations based on topics with headings.
• SmiliesPlugin: Render smilies as icons, like  :-) for or  :cool: for
• TablePlugin: Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns

Plugin Diagnostics

Plugins defined

• DefaultPlugin
• SpreadSheetPlugin
• BeautifierPlugin
• BibliographyPlugin
• CommentPlugin
• ConditionalPlugin
• DefaultPlugin
• DoxygenPlugin
• EditTablePlugin
• EmbedFlashPlugin
• EmbedPDFPlugin
• EmbedQTPlugin
• EmptyPlugin
• FormQueryPlugin
• GnuSkinPlugin
• HiddenTextPlugin
• InterwikiPlugin
• MathModePlugin
• RenderListPlugin
• SessionPlugin
• SlideShowPlugin
• SmiliesPlugin
• SpreadSheetPlugin
• TablePlugin
• TopicVarsPlugin

Errors

Plugin "TWiki::Plugins::BeautifierPlugin" could not be loaded by Perl.  Errors were:
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Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.so' for module Data::Dumper: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/lib/perl5/XSLoader.pm line 70.
 at /usr/lib/perl5/Data/Dumper.pm line 36
BEGIN failed--compilation abortedBEGIN failed--compilation abortedBEGIN failed--compilation abortedBEGIN failed--compilation aborted----
Plugin TWiki::Plugins::BeautifierPlugin iniPlugin did not return true

Note: The diagnostics are provided by the %FAILEDPLUGINS% variable

Related Topics: TWikiPlugins, TWikiPreferences

-- TWiki:Main.MikeMannix - 12 May 2002
-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 18 May 2004