Comments on: Wanna WordPress Wiki

By: WPExplorer

WPExplorer — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:09:49 +0000

This is a really useful plugin. I will be conducting a college class next semester and I was planning on using wiki to help teach it. Instead, I may use my all time favorite…Wordpress!

Thanks.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:50:37 +0000

I have a quick question. When I check off the option to make a page or post wiki friendly, then a someone with the “wiki editor” privilege can edit the page, so far so good. The issue that I have is that the option to make the page/post wiki friendly is still available to the wiki editor, and if they deselect the box to make the page/post wiki friendly, then the post can no longer be edited until the administrator makes the post wiki friendly again. Is there a way to only allow the admin to select which pages are wiki friendly?

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:41:27 +0000

@Nikko and @chris - I've got it working with WordPress 2.8.4. What exactly are the issues you are having with the WP Wiki plugin? Can you both provide more details? "Doesn't work" and "killed it" aren't enough for anyone to be able to help you troubleshoot the problems.

By: Jeffry Ghazally

Jeffry Ghazally — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:45:52 +0000

Hi Guys,
I am a developer working for Dan on some of the great plugins on offer, including wp-wiki.
I have been using wp-wiki with wordpress 2.8.4 for a project, I can vouch it does work in wordpress 2.8 but have noticed numerous plugin conflicts which I will address when I get sometime. If you need help with the plugin and getting it working, please send me an email,[dev[at]instinct.co.nz] and I will try my best to help you out as soon as possible.

your friendly wordpress geek,
Jeffry G

By: chris

chris — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:17:00 +0000

Yeah. WP 2.8.x killed it. Been struggling to find a work around, or anybody else who has successfully deployed wp-wiki. No luck.

By: Nikko

Nikko — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:02:14 +0000

Unfortunately this plugin doesn’t work on WordPress 2.8 and higher. :(

By: Grace

Grace — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:13:54 +0000

Yes, Media Wiki is very difficult to work with! Thank goodness there is an alternative for us non geeks!. :)

By: Dan Milward

Dan Milward — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:32:43 +0000

Do you mean auto install from within WordPress?

Best…. Dan

By: R Zaman

R Zaman — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:32:34 +0000

yeah.. too hard to work with media wiki.. hope is have a simple installation like other wp plugins.
BTW great review.

By: Dan Milward

Dan Milward — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:47:53 +0000

@Ryan – thanks for the post / write up. Since launch we’ve almost had 4000 downloads and its only been a couple of months. I think this is pretty cool and quite clearly shows that WordPress users want to be able to use this stuff.

Also you mention that it lacks some common Wiki functionality but you don’t mention what. It would be helpful for us to know what you mean by that – the more people that tell us what they want the easier it is for us to improve WP Wiki :)

@Leland – WordPress has been used for more then just traditional blogs for longer then I can remember :P

If you want a Wiki then it makes more sense to use WordPress + WP Wiki Plugin then it does to use Media Wiki – which in contrast is old skool and hard to use.

I agree. It makes perfect sense for documentation sites and there are lots of those about :P

@all – The next release will come with a Wiki Settings page (WordPress admin > settings > Wiki) where admin users can set the number of revisions to show on a page or post and turn on email alerts whereby administrators are sent an email when somebody changes a Wiki Editable page. This version is coming out real soon :)