Title: useless
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# useless

 *  [Pieter Bos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senlin/)
 * (@senlin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useless-68/)
 * Poorly coded, ads to buy premium (which does not add anything that you cannot
   add yourself).
 * The choice to make the wikis a custom post type already is a big mistake, because
   this means that you cannot use any of the default Categories and Tags. They try
   to sell that at a premium, but even if you go for that (I did) it still is completely
   useless.
 * Much better would have been to integrate it with Posts, because after all people
   that are making a wiki website do not need a blog.
 * The Custom Post Type has been set to hierarchical and that cannot be changed 
   easily (without adding all kinds of filters). Since when are Posts or Articles(
   and therefore Wikis) hierarchical? This not clear from the description and should
   be added to make potential users aware.
 * In the free version you can (without further hacking) only adjust the slug.
 * In the premium version the wikis come with useless breadcrumbs that can not be
   customised (and not be turned off unless you hack the plugin directly or add 
   another filter somewhere).
 * The only nice thing that the plugin does is how it shows the wiki on the frontend.
 * 2 stars because it “works” but it can be vastly improved

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 *  [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ugotsta/)
 * (@ugotsta)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useless-68/#post-7868486)
 * Hi [@piet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piet/),
 * Thanks so much for all your feedback, we do hear you. Though I’d like to note,
   the plugin uses a custom post type as the preferred way to add this type of functionality
   in WordPress. We also have a significant user base utilizing blogging features
   as well, so it wasn’t feasible to incorporate it into Posts.
 * Wikis are hierarchical but you’re not required to use that feature. You could
   simply create only top-level wikis. Or just one top-level wiki, then users could
   create as many second-level wikis as they want.
 * We couldn’t feasibly discuss the premium features here but if you’d be willing
   to discuss that, we’d love to hear from you through our [contact form](http://premium.wpmudev.org/contact/).
 * Again, thanks for your feedback. And hope to hear from you by email. 🙂

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