Extension talk:DPL3/Parameters: Controlling output format

The following DPL displays correctly on its own page:

But, when transcluded to another page, the format is lost, and raw HTML is displayed:

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How to fix?

Johnywhy (talk) 18:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Using DPL for a blog-like display with images
Hi ! Thanks for the nice improvements to DPL. It adds very valuable items. After reading the documentation I can't tell if it can be used to make a blog-like display with an image from the article + page title + maybe an extract. Did you have an experience with something like that ? Regards. --Xii Ryo (talk) 20:02, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Using DPL with images
Hi guys - i try to get the same as the author above. What i tried: category=News ordermethod=categoryadd,firstedit order= descending namespace= count=9 format  =,\n*,%TITLE%,, include={News}:image,%0[450] allowcachedresults=true

What i got is just the image name (examplexyz.jpg) How can i implement that as image? I tried that with the File Syntax but it doesn't work. Any ideas ? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 91.65.107.54 (talk). Please sign your posts with
 * Can you give an example of the code output? Category:News doesn't exist on this wiki, so I can't fully see what the problem is. Scientific Guy (talk) 16:40, 5 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your answer. Example output:

LoremLipsum.png 09.04.2019

Lorem ipsum text dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua ..→Lorem Lipsum Title


 * This is the result. I suspect the syntax is wrong. But I have no idea how to do that correctly. The image path is present. But this one jumps out of the file tag. What i want.

09.04.2019 Lorem Lipsum Title

Lorem ipsum text dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua ..→


 * Any Ideas ? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by ‎91.65.107.54 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with


 * Okay, I see. It would help if I could edit the DPL myself; could you link to the wiki or sandbox where you're trying this? Scientific Guy (talk) 18:31, 5 May 2019 (UTC)


 * blood.camp/Test - thank you very much for your help. 91.65.107.54 18:49, 5 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Looking at the site, I would recommend including the surrogate template {News}/list and putting [[File:]] in Template:News/list. There might be a way to do it without the surrogate, but it would be a lot easier if you did. Scientific Guy (talk) 19:09, 5 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your hint. I got it. (I learned something again). 91.65.107.54 19:42, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Columns not working
The columns parameter on my installation is not working.

Does not create a table at all in the source, just lists items the same as without the columns/rowcolformat parameters.

Any help appreciated.

Optix au (talk) 01:10, 20 July 2019 (UTC)


 * To answer my own question, in lieu of using the DPL columns parameter (which doesn't work for me) I wrapped the whole function in Multi-Columned List code. That worked. Optix au (talk) 10:31, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Mistake on the Extension Page
According to the tablesortcol section: If you do not use the output order of your table rows will depend on the sort order by which the articles were analysed. That order depends on other DPL commands like. The default is "alphabetically by title". So, without you get the tablerows in alphabetical sequence of the article names where they come from. With you can order them by the column contents itself.

That's just not correct. Since the UCP merge, FANDOM wikis were forced to used this DPL extension, which was previously used only in Gamepedia, and all our DPLs which had no tablesortcol parameter - and, obviously, no ordermethod parameter either - were automatically sorted by creation date / first edit by default. We had to run a bot to fix that on ~700 pages.

Hunter of Dragoes (Talk  · Contribs  · TibiaWiki Admins ) - 17:06, 18 May 2021 (UTC)