Path of Exile Wiki:Overview of Templates

A template is a page created to be included in other pages. Templates usually contain repetitive material that might need to show up on any number of articles or pages. They are commonly used for standard warnings or notices, infoboxes, navigational boxes and similar purposes. The most common method of inclusion is called transclusion, where the wikitext of the target page contains a reference to the template, using the  syntax.

Templates that are being used on a page shows up in a list at the bottom of when in editing mode or in the sidebar. They link to their main page which explains the purpose, parameters and other useful information.

For more information see: Wikipedia:Help:Template

Items

 * - Queries and displays a single inline item link.
 * shortcut
 * is a shortcut for skill and support gems only
 * is used to create item infoboxes and add cargo data. Can partially be exported by PyPoE
 * is used to create item tables (i.e. lists with various properties of items) for items that have been added with the item template
 * to enter non-item skill data (for skill gems use )
 * to fetch skill progression from semantic data entered with
 * to create a page section containing a modifier list for skill enchantments

Modifiers

 * - Creates mod infoboxes with cargo data.
 * - Queries and displays modifier tables.
 * - Queries and displays a single inline modifier link.
 * - Shortcut

Infoboxes

 * creates a version infobox and adds cargo data

General

 * to create an html abbreviation (ex: abbreviation)
 * is similar to (ex: abbreviation)
 * used to apply pre-defined colour/style classes to text.

Table cells
Templates that can be used to fill out table cells

Create characters
Can be used to avoid problems in template calls