MediaWiki extensions manual

PersonalisedHomepage Release status: stable
Implementation	MyWiki
Description	Allows users to create their own homepage
Author(s)	Mark Clements (HappyDogtalk)
MediaWiki	1.6+
Database changes	No
License	Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.5
Download	Source is available externally
Hooks used ParserBeforeStrip

The PersonalisedHomepage extension allows users to personalise the home page by creating a new page in their user space that will be used instead.

Usage

Create a sub-page of your user page which has the same name as the main page of your wiki. By default this is Main Page, but this is configurable on a per-wiki basis so it may differ in your case. You can find the correct name by checking the contents of MediaWiki:Mainpage for the wiki in question. "Main Page" should be replaced by the appropriate value for your wiki throughout the remainder of these instructions.

If your username was "Sir Dennis" you would therefore create your personalised home page at "User:Sir Dennis/Main Page". You can edit the page to contain whatever you want. If you want to include the contents of the non-customised main page then add {{:Main Page}} at the point you want it to appear.

Installation

• Obtain the code and place the file(s) in a directory called PersonalisedHomepage in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  require_once "$IP/extensions/PersonalisedHomepage/PersonalisedHomepage.php";
  

•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.