Templates in Yada Wiki

Hi Alex,

Nice site and good ideas!

A wiki article has several elements:

-title
-body
-featured image
-wiki categories
-wiki tags
-author and date are entered automatically based on the logged in user and time when it is submitted.

I experimented with Caledra Forms with its Custom Field add-on, both free here, and you can create a form that you put on a page for the user to enter the first 5 items above. It might make the process more streamlined. The only thing missing would be the buttons for the shortcodes. I can create a quick step-by-step if it would be helpful.

Is that they kind of thing you’re referring to?

Best,

David

Thank you,

From the sounds of it that may solve a separate challenge I was having, so thank you!

But the issue I was getting at in the original question is about a set structure for the information in the body – for instance, if I wanted all wiki pages to be structured according to a common set of headings?

Thanks again. As other people on this forum have said, I like your plugin, and appreciate your prompt support.

Alex

Hi Alex,

Yea, I listed the fields because normally forms map to them. So to structure the content in the content body as ou describe, I think you would need some code … it is doable, but not “point and click.” For example, on the Caledera Form, you could have various input fields and then when the user clicks the button at the bottom of the form, use JavaScript to grab them, wrap them in HTML tags and construct the article body.

Otherwise, if you did not want to use the wiki plugin, you could use custom fields and more or less create your own special content type. Again, some programming, but doable.

Best,

David