Wikka Developer Blog

After a bit of a hiatus, Wikka 1.3.1-RC1 has been released. This release introduces a slew of new features, security enhancements, and bug fixes. Final release date will be 31Mar2011, with new Wikka releases every 6 months. As always, we welcome your user reports via your blog comments, posts to our mailing lists, or a quick note on our IRC channel.

A special thanks goes out to all of our long-time Wikka users who have stuck with us throughout the years. We don’t have the extensive developer base that the more popular wikis have, but we believe we have a wiki that is in many respects superior to the “big boys.” We’ll continue to support WikkaWiki as a flexible, standards-compliant, lightweight, and secure platform for content management.

CakePHP is a PHP application framework that makes developing web apps a snap, as much of the code is autogenerated, and if you stick to the CakePHP naming scheme for your DB schema and supporting classes, a lot of DB access functionality is created for you “on the fly.” So I got to thinking that CakePHP might be a cool way to write Wikka actions and handlers.

In fact, it is rather cool: I use WikkaCake to generate and maintain this table for the OpenNIC project.

And best of all, running CakePHP inside of WikkaWiki requires no changes to core library classes in either application. The details can be found at the CakePHP Bakery.

Wikka is now available in Softaculous, an auto-installer that powers the most popular control panels.

Here is the full list of installers and third-party distributions for WikkaWiki.

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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