Title: Wikipedia for tag pages
Author: Haldaug
Published: <strong>July 19, 2013</strong>
Last modified: August 26, 2013

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# Wikipedia for tag pages

 By [Haldaug](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haldaug/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wikipedia-for-tag-pages.1.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/#developers)

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## Description

This plugin creates a widget that displays excerpts from Wikipedia on the tag pages(
the template tag.php). The user can specify multiple languages for the plugin to
query using the Wikipeida API. The language that has an article that matches the
tag has its article displayed.

### Credits

This widget is based on the WordPress-Wikipedia-Widget by patlockley: [WordPress-Wikipedia-Widget](https://github.com/patlockley/WordPress-Wikipedia-Widget)

## Screenshots

[⌊Widget displayed on tag page⌉⌊Widget displayed on tag page⌉[

Widget displayed on tag page

[⌊Widget options⌉⌊Widget options⌉[

Widget options

## Installation

 1. Unzip the ‘wikipedia-tags.zip’ file
 2. Upload the folder `wikipedia-for-tags` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 4. Use the widget control panel to place the widget in your sidebars.

## FAQ

  Does the plugin support articles in all languages?

Yes. The user can specify the languages the plugin should search through.

  Does the widget show up on other pages than tag pages?

No, the widget checks to see if it is being displayed on a tag page using the conditional
tag is_tag().

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Wikipedia for tag pages” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Haldaug ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haldaug/)

[Translate “Wikipedia for tag pages” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wikipedia-for-tag-pages)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.4

Added support for the ‘before_widget’, ‘after_widget’, ‘before_title’ and ‘after_title’
arguments.

#### 1.3

Added cahcing on client and server sides.

#### 1.2

Changed to widget title to correspond to the standard

<

h2> tag.

#### 1.1

Added some simple styling

#### 1.0

Stable release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.4**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.6.1**
 * Tags
 * [api](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/api/)[tags](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tags/)
   [wikipedia](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wikipedia/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wikipedia-for-tag-pages/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Haldaug ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haldaug/)

## Support

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