DokuWiki doesn’t have a visual editor. You have to use syntax codes to apply layout to a certain piece of text. Fortunately, the codes are not too difficult. To put a piece of text in bold, for example, just surround it with **-signs. The toolbar will help you with this.

This wiki contains simple layout rules to write readable topics. The wiki also contains a playground in which you can test anything without it affecting the actual wiki.

You can use the toolbar for formatting DokuWiki articles.

From left to right:

There are five heading levels. You can choose which level headline is applied to a title with the following buttons:

From left to right:

To insert a headline, surround your text with ===-signs, like this: ====== Level 1 heading ======

A level 1 heading is the highest level of heading. Use fewer equals signs (=) to get a lower heading level.

From left to right:

External links are automatically recognized: simply type http://www.google.com or even www.google.com.

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You can make ordered and unordered lists in dokuwiki.

1. Start on a new line and enter two spaces followed by an asterisk or a hyphen.
2. Press enter and a new listitem appears.
3. You can also make nested lists: Precede the * or - with four spaces to make a second level list, with six spaces to make a third level list, and so on.

From left to right:

Button name	Syntax	Usage
Image	{{:wiki:syntax:knoppen1.png?200|}}	Uploading an image and embedding it inside the text
Table	^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ | Row 1 Col 1 | Row 1 Col 2 |	Adding a table to structure information
Horizontal line	—-	Used for layout purposes
Smiley	:-)	Smileys are always useful
Special character	☎	Quickly finding difficult to type characters
Signature	— //[[Wouter.Verkerken@flowtime.be|Wouter Verkerken]] 2016/08/04 15:14//	Adding your personal signature to a recent edit
Footnote	((This is a footnote))	Explaining something separately (in a tooltip) without complicating the text

To make the wiki more user-friendly, a number of plugins were added. Some of these plugins appear as buttons in the toolbar:

From left to right:

Clicking the Tags button will enter a line of code in which you can enter tags. Enter these tags with spaces in between. If you want a tag which consists of several words, separate them with an underscore (for example {{tag>adobe_reader}} will result in the tag “adobe reader”). All tags should be written in lower case.

The Wrap plugin allows you to put notes, warnings, information blocks and many more inside a text. This plugin has many layout options. For more information, see the section Wrap plugin.

This wiki converts letter codes to their matching typographic image. Here are a few examples:

→ ← → ⇒ ⇐ <⇒ » « – — 640×480 © ™ ® “He thought ‘It’s a man’s world’…”

-> <- -> => <= <=>>> <<-- --- 640x480 (c) (tm) (r)
"He thought 'It's a man's world'..."

The wrap plugin allows you to easily add a note, tip or warning in your text. The syntax is very similar to HTML. It is ideal for displaying text blocks and notes. You can find what you need in the expandable toolbar:

This is a selection of the wrap possibilities on the wiki:

<WRAP 60% center round box> This is a standard text block. </WRAP>
<WRAP 60% center round info> This is an info block. </WRAP>
<WRAP 60% center round tip> This is a block for tips. </WRAP>
<WRAP 60% center round important> This is a block that contains important info about the design. </WRAP>
<WRAP 60% center round alert> This block contains essential information that must be read. </WRAP>
<WRAP 60% center round help> This is a reference to help or contains information for new users. </WRAP>
<WRAP 60% center round todo> This information is not up to date yet or contains errors. </WRAP>

Click <wrap em>Articles</wrap> and then {{:details_icon.png?nolink|Details}}.
This is an <wrap hi>important</wrap> word.
This is <wrap lo>less important</wrap>.

Dokuwiki syntax can be expanded with Plugins. Each page describes how to use the installed plugins. The following syntax plugins are available in this DokuWiki installation:

• Pagelist Plugin 2017-08-24 by Matthias Schulte, Michael Hamann, Michael Klier, Gina Haeussge
  Lists pages in a nice formatted way
• Changes Plugin 2017-04-15 by Andreas Gohr
  List the most recent changes of the wiki
• Info Plugin 2014-10-01 by Andreas Gohr
  Displays information about various DokuWiki internals
• Editor Plugin 2016-04-26 by Gina Häußge, Michael Klier, Esther Brunner
  Displays a list of recently changed wiki pages by a given author
• Bookmark plugin 2005-08-01 by Otto Vainio
  a bookmark <a name='name'></a>
• Avatar 2017-08-25 by Michael Hamann, Michael Klier, Gina Haeussge
  Displays avatar images
• ckgedit 2017-10-24 by Myron Turner
  WYSIWYG plugin for Dokuwiki
• Wrap Plugin 2015-07-19 by Anika Henke
  Universal plugin which combines functionalities of many other plugins. Wrap wiki text inside containers (divs or spans) and give them a class (choose from a variety of preset classes), a width and/or a language with its associated text direction.
• Cloud Plugin 2017-08-05 by Michael Hamann, Michael Klier, Gina Haeussge
  Displays the most used words in a word cloud.
• Indexmenu Plugin 2015-08-26 by Samuele Tognini
  Show a customizable and sortable index for a namespace
• Video Sharing Site Plugin 2017-04-27 by Andreas Gohr
  Easily embed videos from various Video Sharing sites. Example: {{youtube>XXXXXX}}
• Add New Page 2015-11-02 by Benjamin Santalucia, Sam Wilson, Michael Braun, Gerrit Uitslag, Albert Chern
  Adds a "new page form" to any wiki page.
• Snippets Plugin 2017-10-20 by Myron Turner
  Provides toolbar button+popup for template insertion; can track and insert sinppet updates
• Tag Plugin 2017-08-24 by Michael Hamann, Gina Häussge, Christopher Smith, Michael Klier, Esther Brunner
  tag wiki pages
• Search Form Plugin 2014-07-30 by Gerrit Uitslag, (previous: Adolfo González Blázquez)
  Inserts a search form in any page