bharley/mw-hidesubpageparents

Hide Subpage Parents

Hide Subpage Parents MediaWiki Extension

About

This is an extension for MediaWiki that will hide the parents in the title of a subpage. For example, Example/Sample/Data will become Data.

Installation

• Download this extension (grab the latest from releases)
• Extract this extension into $mw/extensions/HideSubpageParents where $mp is that path to your MediaWiki installation
• Add the following to $mw/LocalSettings.php:

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

Usage

By default, all of your articles that are subpages will now only show the name of the subpage itself in the title. You can make this functionality optional by setting $wgHideSubpageParentsDefaultOn to false.

This extension also has two functions that can be used to modify the behavior of this extension on an article-by-article basis.

{{#showparents:[numberToShow]}}

When called without arguments, this function will show all of the parents in the title of the subpage regardless of the $wgHideSubpageParentsDefaultOn setting.

When numberToShow is set, only that many parents will be shown. For example, Example/Content/Data/2014/July combined with {{#showparents:3}} will result in the page name Content/Data/2014/July.

{{#hideparents:[numberToHide]}}

When called without arguments, this function will hide all of the parents in the title of the subpage regardless of the $wgHideSubpageParentsDefaultOn setting.

When numberToHide is set, only that many parents will be hidden. For example, Example/Content/Data/2014/September combined with {{#hideparents:3}} will result in the page name 2014/September.

Settings

There are a handful of settings available to configure this extension:

Setting	Since	Default	Description
$wgHideSubpageParentsDefaultOn	0.1	true	If this is set to false, subpages will not have their parent page titles removed by default.
$wgHideSubpageParentsMainNSOnly	0.1	true	If this is set to false, parent page titles will be removed in every namespace.

Settings should go in your LocalSettings.php file after including the extension.

Example

// LocalSettings.php
// ...
require_once "$IP/extensions/HideSubpageParents/HideSubpageParents.php";

$wgHideSubpageParentsMainNSOnly = false;
// ...