Extension:External Content

Not to be confused with Extension:External Data.

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The Professional Wiki team maintains this extension professionally.

Professional Wiki provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.

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External Content Release status: stable
Implementation	Parser function
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)
MediaWiki	1.35+
PHP	8.0+
Database changes	No
Composer	professional-wiki/external-content
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	GitHub: project page git repository URL [help ] commit history README CHANGELOG
Parameters $wgExternalContentRenderMarkdownByDefault $wgExternalContentDomainWhitelist $wgExternalContentFileExtensionWhitelist $wgExternalContentEnableEmbedFunction $wgExternalContentEnableBitbucketFunction $wgExternalContentBasicAuthCredentials
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit ParserTestGlobals SearchDataForIndex2 SearchIndexFields

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

• Embedding External Content in MediaWiki — Blog post introducing External Content extension
• Embedding External Content in MediaWiki — Video on using the External Content extension