BookStack Hacks

This hack adds the ability to write global and book-level glossaries, which will then be utilised when viewing pages by marking those words in page content with a dashed underline. »

This hack registers a custom command using the logical theme system, which will prune the revisions of a specific page to just those with a changelog provided (in addition to the current revision), before resetting the revision numbers across the remaining versions to be sequential without gaps. »

This is a hack to adapt outgoing webhooks from BookStack so that they are directly compatible with the pushover message API. »

This hack adds the ability to import “.docx” files into the WYSIWYG editor, by dragging and dropping a “docx” file into the editor area. »

This hack adds custom autocomplete suggestions to the WYSIWYG page editor (TinyMCE). An autocomplete popup box will show after a “trigger character” (: as configured by default in this hack) is entered after a space, or at the start of a line. »

This hack adds some level of “footnote” support to the WYSIWYG editor. A new “Footnote” button is added to the toolbar, next to the “Italic” button, that allows you to insert a new footnote reference. »

This hack provides an example of adding custom actions to the WYSIWYG page editor (TinyMCE). By default, this adds an additional “…” overflow menu to the end of the WYSWIYG toolbar, which contains a single new “Insert Cat” button that has a custom icon. »

This hack will add custom styles & scripts, hiding many parts of the interface while adding additional light/dark mode control, intended to provide a cleaner view that’s suitable for use within iframes embedded on external pages. »

This hack uses the visual theme system to customize the page export template file, used for both PDF and HTML exports, to add a simple linked “Contents” list to the top of the file, generated from the headers within the document. »

This hack will allow TeX/LaTeX mathematic markup to be rendered within a page on BookStack using MathJax. Inline math can be surrounded with $ and math blocks can be surrounded with $$ or \[. »

This is a hack to add a simple latest-page RSS feed to the BookStack using the logical theme system. A YouTube video covering the build and use of this customization can be found here. »

This logical theme system hack allows you to show a custom message on the login form, above the inputs and below the title. »

This hack will force HTML links, within the main content body of a page, to open in a new tab. »

This is a hack to BookStack to enable auto-sorting of book chapters and pages upon page or chapter create/update. It sorts by name, ascending, with chapters first. »

This allows you to configure notifications to be sent to users within roles defined via tags applied to parent books. For example, if a tag with name Notify and value Admins, Viewers is applied to a book, updates to pages within will be notified via email to all users within the “Admins” and “Viewers” roles. »

This hack sends out page update notification emails to all users that have marked that page as a favourite. Considerations The sending of emails may slow down page update actions, and these could be noisy if a user edits a page many times quickly. »

This is a hack to BookStack, using the theme system, so that login presents itself as a username. Upon login attempt, this will match to a user of <username>@<configured-domain> within the database. »