DokuWiki + WordPress = dwBliki

By ezpdo4php on March 3rd, 2005

dwBiliki-0.1 is out!

Promised to share what I did to make a Bliki out of DokuWiki and WordPress. Here you are. dwBiliki-0.1 is out. As you have quickly guessed, d = DokuWiki and w = WordPress. See this and that for what motivated me to work on dwBliki.

dwBliki is a WordPress plugin that makes use of the WordPress plugin API. The API is a great feature from WP. It suffices all the needs to make dwBliki to work. I wished not to touch a single line of the DokuWiki code. I almost did with one exception - actually one line. See below (step 2).

Installation

  1. If you haven’t already, download, install and configure DokuWiki (2005-02-06 or up) and WordPress (tested only on 1.5). Make sure both are working individually.

  2. Here comes the single line hack in the DokuWiki code. Cd to /path/to/dokuwiki/install. Edit inc/common.php. Replace line 23
    session_start();
    with

    if (!headers_sent()) session_start();

    The reason for this change is to suppress the “header has been sent” warning. The change seems harmless to DokuWiki when it’s run individually. Andreas Gohr, the DokuWiki author, has promised to make this change. See comments blow.

  3. Download the latest dwBiliki: .tar.gz or .zip. Extract to the WordPress plugins directory.
    $ cd /path/to/wordpress/install
    $ cd wp-content/plugins
    $ tar xvfz dwbliki.latest.tar.gz
    $ unzip dwbliki.latest.zip # (for .zip)
  4. Configure dwBliki. Assume you are still in the WordPress plugins directory. Edit dwbliki/config.php. This is the only config file you need to take care. Follow the instructions in that file.

  5. Point your browser to your WordPress site admin page. Click on menu “Plugins”. After screen refreshed, you should be able to see dwBliki listed as a plugin. Activate it and click “View site”.

  6. If you have configured the DokuWiki path and relative url path correctly (in dwbliki/config.php), after you click “View site” and refresh the WordPress a few times, you should be able to see your Wiki pages in WordPress now.

  7. If you run into problems that you cannot resolve after trying, drop comments to this post.

A note

Please note that dwBliki-0.1 does not import your Wiki pages all at once. Instead it does a kind of lazy loading. Initially it only imports the starting page of your Wiki. It acts up on the Wiki links (a.k.a. “[[…]]”) in that page and maps them into WordPress posts. As you browse more pages, it maps more and eventually brings every Wiki page into WordPress.

Acknowledgment

A special word of gratitude is extended to the hardworking DokuWiki and WordPress teams.

Happy bliki’ing!

34 user comments

  1. kb on March 1st, 2005:

    Wow, I’ve been thinking about something like this for sometime. Another good example that I like to think of as a well made bliki is Rui’s The Tao of Mac which is a hacked phpwiki. It has that balance of wiki and blog that seperatley you cannot get.

    Can’t wait to see the code. I was going to do the same thing but just as a big hack to DokuWiki.

  2. Andreas Gohr on March 3rd, 2005:

    Hi!

    This sounds really interesting! I will add the suggested change to DokuWiki.

    Andi (DokuWiki Developer)

  3. ezpdo4php on March 3rd, 2005:

    Thanks, Andi. I will revise the instruction once I see your new release. -oak

  4. kusaeni on March 3rd, 2005:

    I downloaded DoKuWiki latest version .. and try to extract it but .. Its cant to extract .. Err

  5. ezpdo4php on March 3rd, 2005:

    kusaeni,

    i haven’t tried the latest version of DokuWiki. the version i am using is 2005-02-06. probably you can drop a line at the DokuWiki site and see if anybody can help. thanks.

    another thing you might want to be aware (not sure if this is your case) is that if you download .tar.gz, and unzip it using WinZip, you might run into problems. the right command line is tar xvfz.

    btw, if you get your problem solved, please post your solution so people can share. thanks.

    -oak

  6. ezpdo4php on March 3rd, 2005:

    kb, see the new post http://www.ezpdo.net/blog/?p=26. -oak
    p.s. i found your wirting about bliki thorough and enlightening.

  7. ogre on March 3rd, 2005:

    love it oak ;) ;), as i said in my email to you.. i’ve been looking for something like this for over a year.. i’m going to install it right now and let you know how it works..

    you’re just unstoppable right now..

  8. ogre on March 3rd, 2005:

    although i think maybe ‘woku-bliki’ would be a cool name..

  9. ezpdo4php on March 4th, 2005:

    ogre,

    thanks for the suggestion. sounds really a cool name. if anybody else concur, i’ll change it. let me know how it works.

    -oak

  10. kusaeni on March 5th, 2005:

    Yup I know it .. I d’load DokuWiki latest version 2002-02-18 … And I use Winzip to extract it …And my Cpanel to auto extract .. but still cannt clear the problem :(

  11. ezpdo4php on March 5th, 2005:

    kusaeni,

    i tried the latest version of dokuwiki. did not have any trouble extracting the file. tried both winzip and tar xvfz in cygwin. worked like a charm. if your problem persists, best to contact folks at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/. thanks.

    -oak

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  16. elnayaf on March 11th, 2005:

    The above statement (#15) is not true. Just to clarify. dwBliki is a WordPress plugin that DOES NOT require any changes in the WordPress core, but only a single line change in DokuWiki at the moment. And that single line change won’t even be necessary as DokuWiki author Andreas Gohr has promised to make it into the future releases. I have posted a similar comment on that site.

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  19. SteveJ on April 15th, 2005:

    Here are my choices for names:
    a) Just “bliki”
    b) blogwiki (I guess, this is quite generic)
    c) dwiki
    d) wokubliki (as suggested above)

  20. ezpdo4php on April 21st, 2005:

    thanks for your suggestions.. we will go for “woku-bliki” then. may take a while to come up with a decent logo. so be patient. :)

  21. Gabe on April 27th, 2005:

    Hi all. I’m not a big fan of the Woku-bliki” moniker. It doesn’t really elicit the function of the plug-in is and it is hard to pronounce (i.e., WOCK-YOU-Blicky vs. wah-koo-blEEky–in all fairness a problem with the DokuWiki name too)).

    My suggestions:
    WP2DW or DW2WP
    WordPressWiki or WPWiki or even just WPW
    WordWiki
    WPDWiki
    WPD

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  26. louie on August 20th, 2005:

    seems the lastest dwBliki not works on the latest dokuwiki :(

  27. ezpdo4php on August 20th, 2005:

    louie, that’s likely as dokuwiki has been undergoing some big changes lately (especially in its parsing core). we haven’t tested dwbliki agaist the latest dokuwiki yet, but will do so when we have a chance. if you or anyone else can do some investigation and share with us, we will highly appreciate. thanks.

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  34. Fan of Don Lapre on December 18th, 2006:

    i don’t know PHP , is it possible to use this dwBliki… Can anyone help me out…

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