• This is not at all a wiki. It’s a disgraceful fake. No wiki features AT ALL. It’s just standard WP static Pages, with a categories hierarchy, the standard editor. You can allow edits by others. All standard WP.
    The only change is that these Pages can carry comments which is a useful little addition. But NOT a wiki.

    Their description says it converts WP sections to a “fully functional wiki. It also says The name suggests the same.
    What kind of supposed wiki has no way to generate lateral links? The wiki movement wasn’t just about collaborative editing – which WP can do perfectly well. Wiki is about creating an instant new page with a double bracket round a word to construct it as the new page title.
    Wiki pages are typically stuffed with links – a WP Page takes about 8 steps to create a new page, then copy its URL and bring it back to the original page. Do that 15 or 30 times just for one page and boy you really know the difference between wiki editing and a fake like this.

    A wiki will also give a list of all empty stubs, or brief text pages, so you can edit them to standard.
    Plus if you quick test with the duble bracket syntax, a Preview will remind you if you already have a page of that name.

    The Encyclopedia plugin is more expensive but I found it better to pay up and get honest software that does a good job, than this cheaper rubbish that does nothing of the kind.

    Oh and they told me that their description does not claim to create a wikipedia clone. No it doesn’t. It says it’ll make a “fully functional wiki” well a wiki is a wiki is a wiki. They are not static, editable pages. They are dynamic generative pages.

    Avoid avoid avoid.

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  • Hi @shanj,

    I’m really sorry if you were at all unhappy with the plugin but would love to see if there’s some way we could turn this experience around for you and I think a bit of clarification could help here.

    The plugin doesn’t use Pages. It uses a custom post type, which in WordPress is the optimal way to add wiki features.

    Also, as with all WordPress and typical wiki CMS’s, the plugin dynamically presents the content. Nothing is static here.

    Really, if you need a full-blown wiki like Wikipedia, it’s best to just use MediaWiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

    It’s what Wikipedia uses.

    However, if you need a solution that works within WordPress, this plugin provides essential core features that you can easily build on. And we’ll gladly look into any suggestions you might have for it if you’ll post to the forums here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-wiki-plugin

    Does that sound feasible to you?

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