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title: "Adding the S5 Presentation slide show plugin to DokuWiki"
description: "One way you can make your DokuWiki friendly for business education is to allow your pages to have a slide show presentation built into them. DokuWiki can be used as a business tool for giving slide..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/dokuwiki/s5-presentation-slide-show-plugin/
date: 2013-02-20
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["DokuWiki"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Adding the S5 Presentation slide show plugin to DokuWiki

One way you can make your DokuWiki friendly for business education is to allow your pages to have a slide show presentation built into them. DokuWiki can be used as a business tool for giving slide show presentations using the “*S5 Presentations*” plugin. This is similar to looking at a Power Point presentation in Microsoft Power Point. The bellow steps will teach you how to add a slide show presentation to your DokuWiki pages using the “*S5 Presentations*” plugin.

## Setting up the Slide show S5 Presentations plugin

1. [![Download the plugin url DokuWiki](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-1-download.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-1-download.gif) Get the URL for the plugin from the following site URL: [https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:s5](https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:s5) The URL should look like the following unless an updated version is out. https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki-plugin-s5/zipball/master
2. [Log into DokuWiki.](/support/edu/dokuwiki/login-dokuwiki/)
3. [![listed in the plugins DokuWiki](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-2-listed-in-plugins.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-2-listed-in-plugins.gif) [Install the plugin](/support/edu/wordpress/installing-plugins-doku/) in the “*Manage Plugin*” section of your DokuWiki admin. If successfully installed, you should see the plugin listed in the “*Installed Plugins*” of your Plugin Manager.
4. [![Configuration settings DokuWiki](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-3-configuration-settings.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-3-configuration-settings.gif) **Go to the Admin** link at the top right and select the “*Configuration Settings*” link in the Administration section.
5. [![Plugin Settings DokuWiki](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-4-plugin-settings.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-4-plugin-settings.gif) Under the **S5 Plugin Settings**. Make sure your theme is selected in the “*The template to use for the slide shows*” drop box. If you change the theme click **Save** at the bottom of the page.
6. [![Slideshow code DokuWiki](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-5-slideshow-code.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-5-slideshow-code.gif) To get a page to show the slide show presentation, you will need to add the following code to the top of your page. [Edit the page ](/support/edu/dokuwiki/edit-delete-restore-pages/)you want to be a slide show presentation. ~~SLIDESHOW~~ **Important!** To create the slide show pages, make sub sections within the page. The first headline should be an **H1 headline**. Additional slides are created by using the **H2 headline**. The horizontal rule ends the current slide and puts the content into a“Handout” page. (For print only). In the snapshot to ther right the headers are set for each page. **Save** the page.
7. [![View the slideshow icon DokuWiki](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-6-view-as-slideshow.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-6-view-as-slideshow.gif) Now there will be an icon to the top of the page that says “*View page as slide show*” when you hover your mouse over it. Click the Slide show icon. [![View of slideshow prsentation s5 plugin DokuWiki](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-7-presentation-view.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/edu_dokuwiki_105_slide-show-presentation_slideshow-dokuwiki-7-presentation-view.gif) Now your webpage will display similar to a Power point presentation. Each of the header sections will display as a different page in the slide show.