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New OborWiki feature: email obfuscation
December 17, 2017, at 09:17 PM (0 comments)
The DeObMail recipe is now installed on OborWiki (disabled by default; you can enable it via the Configurator). It obfuscates email address links on wikipages, preventing them from being harvested by bots. Read more...
New linkicons: RSS, archive.is
December 16, 2017, at 03:52 PM (0 comments)
The linkicons feature of OborWiki (that decorates hyperlinks with icons indicating the type of resource being linked to) has been updated with icons for two link types: Read more...
New OborWiki feature: site map
December 16, 2017, at 03:00 AM (0 comments)
All wikis on OborWiki now come with an automatically generated site map at Site/SiteMap. Read more...
New OborWiki feature: HTTP status directive
December 15, 2017, at 06:11 PM (0 comments)
The Set HTTP Headers PmWiki recipe is now installed on OborWiki (off by default; you can enable it via the Configurator). It allows you to specify, via a page directive, HTTP headers to be sent with a page. Read more...
New font server feature: webfont aggregation via base64 encoding
December 15, 2017, at 03:30 PM (0 comments)
Today brings a new performance-improving feature, for anyone who uses webfonts on their wiki via my font server.
Some background: bandwidth is cheap these days. But latency, especially with multiple HTTP requests, is still problematic. Read more...
New OborWiki feature: automatic URL archiving with archive.is
December 15, 2017, at 02:34 AM (0 comments)
The Archive URL recipe is now installed on OborWiki (off by default; you can enable it via the Configurator).
When Archive URL is enabled, you can place the (:archiveurls:) directive on any page to enable automatic URL archiving for external links on that page. Read more...
New Vector feature: grouplink in pagetitle (breadcrumb)
December 14, 2017, at 01:29 PM (0 comments)
Look up at the top of this page, and you’ll see, above the title of this post, a “Blog” link. This is a new feature of the Vector skin (in use here on OborWiki); it adds a link to the group of the current page above the pagetitle (a form of breadcrumb navigation, in other words). Read more...
New OborWiki feature: versioned assets
December 13, 2017, at 10:32 PM (0 comments)
Versioned Assets is now installed on OborWiki, and enabled on all wikis by default. (You can disable it via the Configurator, if you like.) Read more...
Speeding up your wiki
December 13, 2017, at 02:36 AM (0 comments)
Pages on OborWiki load pretty fast, but it’s possible to speed things up even more.1
All four of the options below are things that I have to enable, via a server-side config file. Wiki owners can’t alter these settings themselves—yet.2 So if you want any of these things configured for your wiki, let me know. Read more...
New default accesskeys
December 12, 2017, at 12:34 PM (0 comments)
I’ve updated the Vector skin with complete array of accesskeys for navigation, actions, editing, etc., and have updated the default version of the Site/Preferences page to provide default keybindings for all the new accesskeys. If you use Vector on your wiki, make sure to enable the new settings for your wiki by going to your Site/Preferences page and saving a local copy (open the page in Edit view, then save it; you need not modify anything).1 Read more...
