Extension:ExternalContent

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Professional Wiki provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.
Category:Extensions by Professional Wiki Category:Extensions without an imageCategory:GPL licensed extensions
MediaWiki extensions manual
External Content
Release status: stableCategory:Stable extensions
Implementation Parser function Category:Parser function extensions
Description Allows for embedding external content, such as code fragments and markdown files, in your wiki pages
Author(s) Jeroen De Dauwtalk
Maintainer(s) Professional Wiki
Latest version 3.0.1 (2025-04-06)
Compatibility policy For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.Category:Extensions with long-term support release branches compatibility policy
MediaWiki 1.35+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
PHP 8.0+
Database changes No
Composer professional-wiki/external-contentCategory:Extensions supporting Composer
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Parameters
  • $wgExternalContentRenderMarkdownByDefault
  • $wgExternalContentDomainWhitelist
  • $wgExternalContentFileExtensionWhitelist
  • $wgExternalContentEnableEmbedFunction
  • $wgExternalContentEnableBitbucketFunction
  • $wgExternalContentBasicAuthCredentials
Hooks used
Category:All extensions

The External Content extension allows for embedding external content, such as markdown files, in your wiki pages.

See the documentation for detailed instructions on how to install, configure and use this extension.

See also