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

• Email protection
• Display emoticons as images
• Convert URLs into links
• Glossary auto-linking - Automatically links to things defined in the Glossary of common terms when the term is mentioned.
• Multi language content
• Multimedia plugins (with default settings i.e. all media format filters except .swf are enabled).
• MathJax

Filters which are off, but available

• Activity names auto-linking
• Database auto-linking

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

Get this filter from GitHub: Docs linking filter

Automatically links to a page in the user documentation wiki (most recent version) when you type the page title enclosed in double square brackets.

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

[[Philosophy]]

To link to a page in the developer docs, add an extra pipe "|" divider followed by dev.

For example, to link to https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugins type

[[Plugins||dev]]

or

[[Plugins|Plugins developer documentation|dev]]

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]]

Auto-linking phrases

Phrase	Link
Moodle Academy	https://moodle.academy
MoodleCloud	https://moodlecloud.com
MoodleNet	https://moodle.net
Moodle Roadmap	https://moodledev.io/general/community/roadmap
Moodle Themes	http://moodle.org/themes
Moodle Tracker	http://tracker.moodle.org/
Moodle jobs	http://moodle.org/jobs
Moodle books	http://moodle.org/books
Plugins directory	http://moodle.org/plugins/