For help with installing plugins please see our Plugin installation guide.
This plugin can be installed a per site basis or Network Activated.
About Wiki settings
The wikis settings is where you can make changes to your wiki settings.
You have 4 options here:
Here’s a quick overview
- 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.
Here’s other options you’ll see in Edit mode.
Advanced tab
Clicking on the Advanced tab takes you directly to the admin area where you can edit the wiki inside your dashboard.
Create New Tab
Clicking on Create New allows you to create a wiki article from the front end.
Widgets
There are three wiki widgets you can add by going to Appearance > Widgets:
New Wikis – To display the newest wikis you have created
Popular Wikis – The most popular wikis by views.
Wikis – This will display the parent Wikis in order of publication.
All widgets have the option of Only top level, this will prevent child wikis from showing and thus only displays the top level parents.
Examples anyone?
Here are some excellent examples of people using our Wiki plugin
You can find those members right here:
Need help?
As always, jump on the forums start a new thread for you questions or issues and one of our support guys or gals will be right along! :)
