• Blog Plugin (with Include Plugin and Pagelist Plugin as dependencies)
  
  • What it does: Turns any DokuWiki namespace into a reverse-chronological news feed. It automatically sorts posts by creation date, generates “Read More” cutoffs, handles pagination, and provides a front-end form to write new news articles directly.
    
• Archive Plugin (often bundled or paired with the Blog Plugin)
  
  • What it does: Generates sidebar chronological archives (by month/year) so visitors can browse past news issues.
    

• Indexmenu Plugin
  
  • What it does: Provides a dynamic, collapsible tree-view menu of your wiki pages. Perfect for a sidebar so users can easily navigate deeply nested documentation categories.
    
• Tag Plugin
  
  • What it does: Allows you to tag wiki pages (and news posts) with keywords, generating tag clouds and cross-referencing related content across your site.
    
• Move Plugin
  
  • What it does: Crucial for a wiki. It lets you rename, move, or restructure wiki pages and entire folder trees without breaking internal links.
    

• Discussion Plugin
  
  • What it does: Adds structured user comment threads to the bottom of wiki pages or news posts. It supports threaded replies (nested conversations), subscriber email notifications, and basic on-page moderation (deleting spam comments, editing).
    
  • Note: If you want a more Wikipedia-style “talk page” format instead of blog-style comments attached to articles, you can use the lightweight Talkpage Plugin instead.
    

• Wrap Plugin
  
  • What it does: Allows you to style sections of your text into custom layout boxes, columns, alerts, or notices, which helps give a DokuWiki site a modern “portal” look rather than a plain text document look.
    
• A Responsive Template: DokuWiki's default template is clean, but for a news/wiki hybrid, you'll want to install a responsive template designed for portals (such as the Sprint, Bootstrap3, or Minima templates) via the Extension Manager to ensure it looks great on mobile devices.
  

1. [yourwebsite.com/news/](https://yourwebsite.com/news/) $\rightarrow$ Managed by the Blog Plugin showing recent articles.
   
2. [yourwebsite.com/wiki/](https://yourwebsite.com/wiki/) $\rightarrow$ Managed by core DokuWiki pages structured via the Indexmenu and Tag plugins.
   
3. Discussions $\rightarrow$ Handled at the bottom of individual pages using the Discussion Plugin, letting users talk about specific news updates or wiki documentation.
   

Because this entire stack is flat-file based, it will consume minimal CPU and RAM, making it run blazingly fast even on the most constrained shared hosting tier.