PmWiki vs. TightWiki

General Features PmWiki TightWiki
Version
2.7.6
2.39.3
Last Release Date
2026-09-18 (28 days ago)
2026-10-03 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-18 (28 days ago)
2026-10-06 (10 days ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
NetworkDLS
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Small to medium business and personal use.
System Requirements PmWiki TightWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
IIS / Kestrel / nginx
Other Requirements
none
.NET runtime
Datastorage PmWiki TightWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TightWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
yes
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support PmWiki TightWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki TightWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TightWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
48
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Moldavian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Optional
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links PmWiki TightWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki TightWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TightWiki proprietary
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PmWiki TightWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PmWiki TightWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Output PmWiki TightWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
No
Media and Files PmWiki TightWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PmWiki TightWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples PmWiki TightWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[Home, Take me home]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[https://Tightwiki.com, Go to TightWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Header
===Sub Header
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**this is bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//this is Italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__this is underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
{{Code(bash)
This is syntax highlighted monospace text.
}}
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
~~this is strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^^^Large
^^^^Larger
^^^^^Even larger
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
Would require a plugin.
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
##Image(download.jpg)
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
{{Blockquote(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}

-or-

{{Figure(Center, This is the caption)
This is the content text
}}
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Ony inside bulleted or numbered lists, otherwise would require a plugin.
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
{{Bullets
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
{{Bullets(Ordered)
Item 1
>Sub item 1.1
>Sub item 1.2
Item 2
>Sub item 2.1
}}
Definition Lists
: term : definition
Would require a plugin.
Horizontal Rule
----
##HR
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