: Page-specific skins in MediaWiki? Is there a way to force a particular skin to be applied while displaying specific MediaWiki articles? In my wiki many articles will have a "flip" version with

@Heady270

There is a SkinPerPage extension that serves exactly this purpose: to force a particular skin on a given page.

In short:

(1) Download the extension, unpack files in /wiki-folder/extensions/

(2) Add wfLoadExtension( 'SkinPerPage' ); instruction to your LocalSettings.php

(3) Add <skin>skin-name</skin> tag to the page that you need to show a skin different from the default.

Sweet :)

Tested on the brand new MediaWiki 1.30.0 release.

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@Reiling115

Disable per-user skin settings with

$wgHiddenPrefs[] = 'skin';


then set $wgDefaultSkin dynamically.

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@Chiappetta492

I'm not certain but I believe that skin preference is the only way. If you know how cookies may be a good idea for page specific skins but it would require quite a bit of setup.

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