This page describes how to customize DokuWiki through templates.

This website is based on Arctic-mbo, based on Arctic template.

Arctic-mbo is compatible with dokuwiki 2010-11-07 “Anteater” and 2011-05-25 “Rincewind”.

This section discribes how to deploy in the simpliest way the template of this website.
Arctic-mbo is a customization of Arctic which add the left sidebar to Dokuwiki.

The page about Artic-mbo on the official Dokuwiki wesite : http://www.dokuwiki.org/template:arctic-mbo
Original Arctic template is available here : http://www.dokuwiki.org/template:arctic

You can download Arctic-mbo here : arctic-mbo_2011-09-17.tgz
Previous version : arctic-mbo_2011-01-09.tgz

• 2011-09-17 : update for “Rincewind” (still compatible with “Anteater”), installation greatly simplified
• 2011-01-09 : translation of the sitebar and removing dependence with the translation plugin
• 2011-01-06 : first version

To install Arctic-mbo, unzip the archive to lib/tpl :

:/opt/dokuwiki/lib/tpl# tar -zxvf /root/arctic-mbo_2011-01-06.tgz
arctic-mbo/
arctic-mbo/COPYING
arctic-mbo/Makefile
arctic-mbo/README
arctic-mbo/VERSION
arctic-mbo/_admin.css
arctic-mbo/_linkwiz.css
....

Install the translation plugin if you want to translate pages (this template can work without).

To enable the template, you just need to select it in the list in “Admin » Config Manager”

Once activated, new spefict parameters appear at the end of the configuration manager, select the following options :

• youarehere on
• tpl»arctic»left_sidebar_content : add “index” and “extra” (you don't need to check extra if you don't use translation)
• tpl»arctic»left_sidebar_order : extra,main,namespace,user,group,index

Other parameters are defined here : options