Basic Wiki that Works

  • I had tried several approaches to incorporating information previously generated in MediaWiki (including WikieEmbed, which seems to have been abandoned) but none worked for me.

    Having a basic ability to recognise links and mark them as existing pages, or, if not yet written to allow for their creation (or indicate that a subject will be developed) is pretty much all I needed for the information management aspect.

    However, the inclusion of a new post type with style classes, wiki tags and categories is useful.

    The only thing I would like to see added would improved handling of the post-meta data [though this apparent shortcoming could just be my ignorance of WP options somewhere…], which, having not “post” category appears as e.g. “by Julian Moore | Jun 30, 2015 | | ” with an unsatisfactory blank after the date… but that’s hardly sufficient reason to mark down a plugin that does a simple job as described well.

    [NB I have not tried the TOC or sidebar widget yet.]

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  • Plugin Author dmccan

    (@dmccan)

    Thank you for the nice review.

    What theme are you using? If it is a free one or one I own I’d be happy to see how we can get the author’s name showing.

    Thread Starter JulianSMoore

    (@juliansmoore)

    I’m using Elegant Themes Divi 2.2 at present (upgrade to 2.4 pending).

    ET seem to be good at compatibility so if it worked for something std (if you don’t have ET) like one of the WP basic themes I expect (or is that my na?vety showing?) it would work here too.

    Plugin Author dmccan

    (@dmccan)

    Divi is popular! I’m using it for my site. Here is the page with the sample wiki:

    https://www.davidmccan.com/wiki/learning-chess-wiki/

    I think that showing the author is an option in the Divi ePanel under Layout settings. There are three tabs there. I have it enabled for all three, but you should be able to find the one that will show it on the wiki pages.

    I’m using the latest 2.4.5.1, but my named has always shown once I enabled showing the author.

    Thread Starter JulianSMoore

    (@juliansmoore)

    I think our wires are slightly crossed – not author name missing but Category I think.

    You have exactly the same thing on your site where under the post title it says “by David | Mar 8, 2015 | | ” – ?it’s because Category is selected in the layout options but there is no Category to go there.

    I don’t really want to disable that piece of meta it because it’s global.

    NB in single post layout I have author, date, categories & comments enabled; in general I have only author and date; single post layout is the issue here I think (there are no such options for Single Page Layout)

    It would be nice if at least the first item in Wiki Categories (?or Wiki Tags?) could be used… Or would it? If the cats (tags) come in alpha order maybe better to show all?

    What do you think?

    Plugin Author dmccan

    (@dmccan)

    You are right. Sorry I didn’t see you are talking about categories. It looks like this is something that has to be done in the theme, not the plugin. I’ll look at it this weekend and see if I can modify a Divi template to show the categories.

    Plugin Author dmccan

    (@dmccan)

    Hi Julian, I created an example that works with Divi that should give you a good start. I’m using the files on my site. You will need to use a child theme if you are not already.

    Here is the link:

    https://www.davidmccan.com/show-category-and-tags-for-wiki-pages-using-divi/

    There is a zip with the sample files at the end. Let me know if you have any questions or it doesn’t work for you.

    Thread Starter JulianSMoore

    (@juliansmoore)

    Oops! Sorry, couldn’t find this thread earlier: posted a non-issue in support ?? – see details there… summary: worked a treat – thanks.

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