WordPress Wiki Plugin

wiki is all you need to transform any WordPress page or post into a powerful, yet easy to use, wiki site with all the core features that MediaWiki has, plus a few more, check it out:

This elegant, powerful WordPress plugin allows you to easily create as many wikis as you like on your WordPress, Multisite or BuddyPress installation.

WordPress wiki plugin top menu

Every wiki you create is brimming with features that include:

Works great with any theme
Complete front-end editing
Ability to be edited by anyone, or only registered users
Full revision history
Comprehensive notification systems
Breadcrumb & widget navigation
Integrated page discussion tools with gravatars
Great, simple editing functionality
WYSIWYG editing
Integrated front-end upload functionality
Video, image integration
BuddyPress and Multisite integration
Actively developed
Always updated, always supported
Guaranteed to work
Customised to meet members needs

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Simply add Wiki to WordPress to get ALL of the functionality you would expect from a major wiki platform.

Wiki works out of the box with any WordPress theme and you can quickly style it to fit your own unique demands.

Out of the box styling

Wiki’s full front-end user interface allows your users to never have to visit the WordPress dashboard to edit or add a wiki.

Edit your wiki via the front end of your site

Visitors can edit without having to go into the WordPress backend

If you like working from your dashboard, a comprehensive wiki tab is provided to manage all of your wikis from one place. Wiki has a familiar interface with simple, powerful WordPress custom-posts functionality.

But for you, or advanced users, the backend is massively easy to use

Many of these incredible features are built directly into the ‘Add Wiki’ option found under the Wiki admin menu:

Creating a wiki is as easy as creating a post

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For help with installing plugins please see our Plugin installation guide.

This plugin can be installed a per site basis or Network Activated.

Please note that default permalinks will not work if you are upgrading from Lite to the Full version. You will need to enable Pretty Permalinks.

About Wiki settings

The wikis settings is where you can make changes to your wiki settings.

You have 4 options here:

Wiki Slug – This will be the short part of the url for your wiki, if we left it as Wiki then your url would be domain.com/wiki/
Breadcrumbs – This is how many breadcrumbs you wish to allow.
What you call Wikis – This is the plural version of Wiki. So if Wiki is one, then Wikis is many (more than one).
What to call Sub Wikis – Pretty much as it states on the tin, what you call sub wikis. A child of the parent Wiki.

That is it for settings, honestly we are set to go!

The Wikis

In the admin you can find a list of already created Wikis, if you have none yet then of course it would be empty for now but I’m sure it will not take long for your to fill it up ;-)

Wikis > Wiki

As you can see from the screenshot, when hovering over an item you get further options to edit, quick edit, trash and view. Those are standard WordPress standard features so we won’t go over them again. :-)

Adding A Wiki

You can either click on Add Wiki from the page just mentioned or directly from the Wikis Menu:

Adding a new wiki is as simple as going to Wikis –> Add Wiki

You should be use to this part by now, its all WordPress baby! :-)

Here’s a quick overview of the Wiki Editor inside the dashboard

Discussion

Just like WordPress, do you want to allow comments? This allows your users to discuss wiki articles.

Wiki Privileges

Wiki privileges are about who you want to be able to edit your wikis.

There are 4 options:

Anyone – Regardless of whether they are registered or not. (front end editor)
Network Users – Anyone within your WordPress Multisite installation if enabled (front end editor)
Sites Users – Only people with a role on the given website. (front end editor)
Users who can edit posts – This restricts the permissions to only those with a role which would permit them to edit a normal WordPress post. (front end editor and advanced editor)

Not sure about roles? No worries, check out our article here.

Wiki E-mail Notifications

This allows people to subscribe for notifications of any changes to a given wiki article.

Author

Allows you to change who the author is. (Yup another standard WordPress feature built right in!).

Publish module

Lets you select its status, if its public or not and when the article should be published.

Wiki Categories

Just add and check which categories are relevant to the the particular wiki article you are writing or editing.

Wiki Tags

Add the relevant tags for your wiki or select tags that have been used previously.

Attributes

You can select whether the article is a child of another published previously. You can also set the order.

Featured Image

Just like WordPress posts you can also set a featured image. (How this displays is down to your theme)

Wiki Categories

Wiki categories are the same as managing categories on posts

You can manage and edit wiki categories from Wiki –> Wiki Categories

Just like all the other sections so far these should be real familiar to you (They exist in normal posts).

In here you can edit existing categories for the Wiki as well as add new ones:

You can add a full category name, slug and description in addition to setting a category as a parent or a child of another category. When done just click the Add New Wiki Category button

Wiki Tags

Very similar to the category section, except for tags.

You can manage and edit wiki from Wiki –> Wiki Tags

You can add, edit and view existing tags as well as popular tags:

As well as view popular tags:

The Front End Wiki Editor.

This was the test Wiki article I made earlier, its simple nothing complex but hey you could be adding images or anything you need really.

Here’s an overview of the front end wiki editor

Page

This is of course the main page content you created.

The Discussion Tab

This will only show if you enable comments on this specific wiki article. This utilises the WordPress comments system to enable discussions so all those same rules apply here too.

The Discussion Form:

The discussion form uses the comment form.

History tab

The History tab allows you to see the revisions and also compare them just like in a wiki normally.

As you can see, you are able to restore or compare versions so that changes maybe reverted later.

Edit Tab

Clicking on Edit allows you to edit the wiki article on the front end including options of who can edit it, whether or not email notifications are enabled along with the main body, category and tags.