Site Start

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1. Your wiki is created – and these pages exist

If you create a new wiki, you will automatically get a lot of "pages":
(do not delete them!)

Page title Page category Page name (url)
Side nav nav:side
Top Bar Menu nav nav:top
Recent Changes system system:recent-changes
List All Pages system system:list-all-pages
Join This Site system system:join
Site Members system system:members
Page Tags system system:page-tags-list
No title system system:page-tags
Search the site search search:site
How To Edit Pages - Quickstart _default how-to-edit-pages
Contact _default contact
What is a Wiki Site? _default what-is-a-wiki-site
Welcome to your new Wikidot site _default start
Manage Site admin admin:manage

2. Forum is switched on – and these pages exist

After enabling the "forum" in the Site manager (page name "admin:manage", title "Manage Site") you will have these following "standard" pages created automatically too – do not remove/rename/delete these pages!

Page title Page category Page name (url)
Forum Thread forum forum:thread
Forum Categories forum forum:start
Forum Category forum forum:category
Recent Forum Posts forum forum:recent-posts
Recent Threads forum forum:recent-threads
New Forum Thread forum forum:new-thread

3. Your "home" page is built

One of them is called "start" (title = "Welcome to your new Wikidot site" ) and will look like the following copied content. This page is set by default (at the beginning) to be shown with the URL of your site. You can change this later on the "admin:manage" page.

Welcome to your new Wikidot site

If this is your first site

Then there are some things you need to know:

  • You can configure all security and other settings online using the Site Manager. When you invite other people to help build this site, they don't have access to the Site Manager unless you make them an administrator like yourself. Check out the Permissions section.
  • Your Wikidot site has two menus, one at the side called 'nav:side' and one at the top called "nav:top". These are Wikidot pages, and you can edit them like any page.
  • To edit a page, go to the page and click the Edit button. You can change everything in the main area of your page. The Wikidot language is easy to learn but powerful.
  • You can attach images and other files to any page, then display them and link to them in the page.
  • Every Wikidot page has a history of edits, and you can undo anything. So feel secure and experiment.
  • You can choose different themes in the Site Manager, and you can write your own theme if you know CSS.
  • To start a forum on your site, see the Site Manager » Forum.
  • The license for this Wikidot site has been set to Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. If you want to change this, use the Site Manager.
  • If you want to learn more, make sure you visit the Documentation section at www.wikidot.com.

If you've already created other sites

Then we don't need to tell you how addictive Wikidot is. But maybe it's worth reminding you of some of the advanced Wikidot features:

  • You can run your Wikidot site on its own web domain name.
  • You can use Google Analytics to measure traffic going to your site.
  • Giving away free wikis is not enough for us – we are also offering you a way to earn money from your wiki using our AdSense implementation.

We hope you enjoy using Wikidot as much as we do. If you want to discuss Wikidot, there is an active community of Wikidot enthusiasts where you can share tips and ideas.

Consider upgrading to a Pro Account

With a Pro Account you get:

  • more new wiki Sites to create
  • more storage

and a lot of other useful features such as: custom domain, advanced web statistics, site cloning, favicons, secure SSL access, and more.

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4. What is the next step?

You should really read this page before you go on with the next howto: Site Check List !

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page revision: 15, last edited: 22 Apr 2011 03:05
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