Filters used on the Moodle.org forums

The Moodle.org forums have a number of filters to make it easier to talk about Moodle. This page lists them.

Standard filters

• Activity names auto-linking
• Database auto-linking - Automatically links to plugins listed in the Modules and plugins database when they are mentioned by name.
• Glossary auto-linking - Automatically links to things defined in the Glossary of common terms when the term is mentioned.
• Email protection
• Multi language content
• Multimedia plugins (with default settings i.e. all media format filters except .swf are enabled).
• TeX filter
• Algebra filter

Contributed filters

• Tracker issue auto-linking - Automatically links to tracker issues when you type the issue number e.g. MDL-1234.
• Moodle Docs auto-linking - Automatically links to a page in the documentation wiki when you type the page title enclosed in double square brackets.

For example, to link to https://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Overview type

[[Development:Overview]]

or

[[Development:Overview|An overview of the Moodle development process]]

To link to a page in a documentation wiki in another language, add an extra pipe "|" divider followed by the language code.

For example, to link to https://docs.moodle.org/es/Los_10_mitos_de_Moodle type

[[Los 10 mitos de Moodle||es]]

or

[[Los 10 mitos de Moodle|Top 10 Moodle Myths in Spanish|es]]

• Code syntax highlighting
• CVS auto-linking - Automatically links to a file's history in CVS, when you type the file path prefixed by "cvs:" e.g. cvs:/moodle/lang/en_utf8/role.php.