Wiki Lite

Simply turn any WordPress post, page or site into a fully functional wiki – complete with a comprehensive set of options, full support and upgrades guaranteed.

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Wikis are great for building community, sharing help docs, or well, organizing the entire breadth of the world’s knowledge.

With the WordPress Wiki plugin, you can add full featured wiki pages to your blog or site with ease.

How about checking out the screenshots and grabbing the full featured plugin too?

Visit the full WordPress Wiki project page here.

See the installation instructions to get started.

Usage

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive
WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual if you are new to WordPress.

To install:

  1. Download the
    plugin file
  2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
  3. Upload the wiki folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
  4. Login to your admin panel for WordPress, Multisite or BuddyPress
  5. Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the wiki plugin (for WordPress Multisite) or on regular WP, visit Plugins and Activate the wiki plugin.

Network activate plugin

To Use:

Creating a wiki is a simple as:

1.  Go to Wikis > Add New in the site admin dashboard

Wikis > Add New Wiki

2.  Add your wiki title and the contents to your wiki page

Creating a new wiki

3.  Select who is allowed to edit the wiki page.

  • Anyone – allows anyone to edit the wiki pages using the front end
    editor.  They don’t need to be added as a user to the site or network to
    edit the wiki.
  • Network users – allows any user of the network to edit the wiki pages using the front end editor
  • Site users – allows any site users to edit the wiki pages using the front end editor
  • Users who can edit posts on this site – allows them to edit the wiki
    pages using the front end editor or advanced editor in the site admin
    dashboard

Choose your wiki editing priveleges

4.  Decide if you want to enable email notifications of updates on the wiki page.

  • Email notifications are used to provide updates of when changes are made to the wiki page

Choose whether to allow email notifications

5.  Click Publish.

6.  Presto!  When you click View Wiki you’ll see your new Wiki complete with:

  • All the standard wiki type features
  • Ability to edit the front end without having to access the WordPress admin dashboard.

View wiki on your site

Settig up your wiki page nagivation is a simple as:

1.  Go to Appearance > Widgets in the site admin dashboard

2.  Add the Wiki widget to the desired sideabar and configure as desired.

Add wiki widget to sidebar

3. When you view your wiki you’ll see your wiki pages listed in the sidebar.

Wiki widget in sidebar

Introduction to using the wiki front end editor

Your new created Wiki comes complete with:

  • All the standard
    wiki type features
  • Ability to edit the front end without having to
    access the WordPress admin dashboard.

View wiki on your site

Editing a page

1.  Editing a page is as easy as clicking on Edit.

2.  This opens up the front end editor for quick editing of the wiki page.

Editing a wiki page

3. Clicking on Create New allows you to create a new page for your wiki using the front end editor.

Creating a new wiki page

4. While clicking on Advanced takes you to the Advanced editor in the WordPress admin dasbhoard.

Providing Feedback

Clicking on Discussion takes you to the discussion tab where feedback or thoughts can be shared.

The wiki discusion tab

Comparing Page History

Clicking on History opens up the History page where you can quickly compare revision history.

Comparing revision history

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