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- Import Simple Excel Tables Into Wikidot
- Include Part Of A Page Only
- Include Part Of A Page Only (Tricky Version)
- New table layout with ROW and CELL tag
- Play Music
- Set Up An Infobox
- Set Up an Infobox — Exclude Specific Attributes
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- Create an Automatic Navigation without parent-childs
- Design Your Own CSS Theme
- How Many Days Does Your Wiki Exist
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- How To Promote Your Site
- How To Send E Mail invitations
- Individual Permissions (A Work Around)
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- Set Up A Custom Domain
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- Site statistics - visitors tracking, hit counters etc.
- Themes: An Idiots Guide
- Use a logo within your site
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This HowTo describes step by step how to add a customised Google search engine to a wikidot webpage. This is also a simple example of the use of the [[embed]] function.
The Result
This customised...
This document explains how to add admins or moderators to your site by changing the options of some members of your site.
1) If You are logged in with Your User Id You will find on your site under...
In my quest to "remove" the Account thingie, since it's way too hard to explain how to use it to someone who can barely navigate the main menus, I needed a way to let my users change their...
Not really a HowTo, but gerdami found this post by scottplan interesting and copypasta here
While I'm patiently waiting for my css savior to come along and respond to my posts, I'm slowly...
This howto describes how to (effectively) use RSS feeds from Wikidot.com to be notified about things you care about ;-)
Introduction
Today more and more web services offer RSS feeds as a...
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++ From yellow to red
[[module TagCloud minFontSize="80%" maxFontSize="200%" minColor="255,255,0" maxColor="255,0,0"...
Wikidot has currently no perfect blogging feature, i.d. a collection of pages ordered descending by creation date, with backlinks and comments modules in the bottom. However, before the release of...
Creating a Blog, or a news display is easy when you have administrative privileges. All you have to do is add a forum category to the forum, and a Frontforum to the page where you want the blog....
Difference Between "Journal" and "Blog"
While some may use the words journal and blog to refer to the same thing, I see them as two different animals. Blogs typically are used to express ideas,...
The most obvious navigation system is the parent-child relationship which produces automatic breadcrumbs navigation at the top of the page. This article shows two different techniques which can...
This document is a work-in-progress. Please contribute if you wish!
This is a howto that describes a way to create your own appearance for your site.
Introduction
Although Wikidot.com already...
This document describes how to set up a forum for a Site - step-by-step.
Introduction
Every Site on Wikidot can contain an autonomous, fully-featured forum. The forum is also used to add such...
1. Block spammer
The First thing to do, when some dear nice chappy (or chapess) starts playing silly buggers is to block them.
At the moment only admins can do this. This is done by going to
site...
The following has not been fully tested. I'm hoping someone who has managed to break their forums, use this, and let us know if it works! (please?)
Avoiding &^%$ Ups
From bitter experience i...
FrontForum — %%date%% variable
According to the module FrontForum documentation, the custom-format %%date%% variable supports a format parameter that “prints posting date with a custom format...
What you need, to make the above work, is a Forum thread or a Per Page Discussion thread1, that has been created around the time your wiki has been created. Then you can display the number of days...
It can be difficult to understand the concept of "Categories," but there is a magic clue that clearly shows how categories are set up. This clue is found in "site manager," under "themes" and...
How to use templates.
What are they?
These are pre - prepared pages, pro - formers, forms that you may wish your wikidot contributers to use.
An excellent example of a template can be found...
Some example of how to embellish your text in your wiki. These have all been swiped from the forums, to put them all in one place. Please feel free to add more.
Text Size
Size of text in a Page...
This document is a "work-in-progress". If you want to contribute - feel free to do it!
This is a short guide how to make a successful Wiki Site and promote it.
Idea for the Site
Think on a...
This page explains how you can send e-mails (like invitations) to your friends and/or contacts.
1. Where to go to Send E-Mail Invitations
If you have not done so yet, you should create Your Own...
Or to be more precise, what they do!
Forums Post option buttons
Below any post you make, there are two buttons: reply | options
Reply
Use this to directly reply to the specific post you are...
Or to be more precise, what they do!
Page Options.
These are found at the bottom of every page and can be switched off (set to be not shown) in the site manager / permissions per every category and...
This HowTo describes how to import simple tables from Excel to Wikidot with a simple concatenation or with a VBA code.
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Table of Contents
The Spreadsheet
A. Simple and stupid...
How To Include Only a Part of Another Page
Create your included page with “{$partn}” and “[!-- --]” markers (where n=1, 2, …) at the beginning and end of each block that you want to be...
How To Include Only a Part of Another Page (Tricky Version)
This is a more sophisticated version of How To Include Only a Part of Another Page as it allows you to use a page
both on its own (i. e....
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What if you already have existing pages that you want staff members to edit?
Scenario. You want to let some...
Please - do not forget to set the "parent" ä page - by selecting one of the "howtotopics:" pages!
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#the-cascade more over...
Please note that this guide is incomplete, but still very useful. The empty sections will be filled in soon.
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Table of Contents
What is an interface?
About users
Definition the Optimum...
Please - do not forget to set the "parent" ä page - by selecting one of the "howtotopics:"...
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This document explains how to logout / logoff from Wikidot.com and shows a little short-hand menu hidden at a little icon right from your "my_account" link at the top right side of the page.
If You...
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A nice way to add advanced layout control using the [[table]] tag. The example uses the style attribute for the whole table and particular cells to adjust layout. Using [[row]] and...
You can play music or listen to radios within wikidot pages thanks to Google Gadgets.
Google Gadgets For Your Webpage
Go to http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open
Search for "music" or...
Is it possible to rename an existing WikiDot.com account ?
For Example:
I would like to change my site [http://movie-trailer-mania.wikidot.com] to another name.
I've spent quite a while looking...
Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up a Custom Domain
So I’m really happy with my wikidot site, ABC.wikidot.com1. But I’d really like it to appear in its own domain: XYZ.com. Although my site will...
How to Set Up an Infobox
Follow these steps, if you'd like to set up an infobox that displays only those attributes that have a value — all other attributes are omitted.
Step by Step
Create an...
How to Set Up an Infobox — Exclude Specific Attributes
Follow these steps, if you'd like to set up an infobox that doesn't display those attributes that a user marks “to be excluded”. Other...
This will be in the near future a short check list for a new site. Not to forget any step necessary…
1. Site creation - the beginning of a new site.
2. Save your start page - is a good idea...
This HOWTO describes ways to add statistics to your Site — including hit counters, visitors tracking etc.
Introduction
It is always nice to know how many people visit your Site. No matter...
Subscribe via Feedblitz
Click on links below to subscribe to Site and Forum changes via Feedblitz emails.
You will be prompted by Feedblitz to enter your email address…
No prior registration is...
This is my first attempt at trying to understand CSS code and custom themes.
There are a number of references to custom...
From the main documentation at http://www.wikidot.com/doc:modules it seems that the module SiteChanges is the answer. Indeed, it is not alone to do the job.
Recent forum threads and posts are also...
This howto describes how to include a logo within the CSS design for your Site.
Introduction
At the moment there is no way to "just upload" an...
Page Ratings
Here is how you let people rate pages in specific categories or for the whole site:
In the Site Manager, enable page ratings for the...
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