I would like to know my options for how best to use WordPress as a wiki. I tried Media Wiki, but the sheer amount of changes I need to make to code to make even trivial changes turned me off. Way off.
Googling doesn’t reveal much. What are the best options for using WP as a wiki? (This can be a community question discussing various options.)
In particular, I would like something that addresses:
- Links to non-existing pages actually link to a “create new page” page
- Editing pages without going through /wp-admin/ (i.e. the back-end)
- Searching/listing existing pages when linking (i.e. linking by title, not by URL)
What are my options?
WordPress CMS is for blogging you can do this with it but can make something similar like this with your own logics but i recommend you to use other CMS there are many CMS for wiki also check this top 5.
MediaWiki
MoinMoin
PhpWiki
OddMuseWiki
TikiWiki
First of all, WordPress is not a wiki. Wikis are a fundamentally different form of content management system (where anyone can manage information). WordPress is meant to publish content, wikis are meant to collaboratively develop content.
Case-in-point, the WordPress project uses a wiki for Codex documents … but it runs MediaWiki rather than WordPress itself to do so.
That said, you certainly can use WordPress to power a wiki … it just won’t be easy.
Poking around on Google, I did manage to find these options for you:
If you can afford $30 you can buy wordpresswiki theme.
Check the demo here
If you wanna buy it, you can buy it from here
There area few plugins that extend wiki-functionality to WordPress.
NOTE: I have not used any of the above plugins, so Your Mileage May Vary.
I’m a big fan of wiki-as-concept for ease-of-use, and use PmWiki to power the main interface to my own site. I also like WordPress (obviously) for different reasons, and miss the PmWiki features when I’m inside of wp-admin [I’m actually developing a plugin to use my wiki as a markup engine inside of WP, but that doesn’t give access to the features you’re probably looking for, like revision history, links-create-new-pages, etc.]. There are actually some blog-extensions for PmWiki, but none of them match the power of WordPress.
So, that being said — I may seem to be advocating “use the right tool for the right job”, as well.
But in some cases, the right tool might be a plugin that gives you just the wiki-features you need inside of WordPress.