Content Blocks (Custom Post Widget) vs Yada Wiki

The Content Blocks allows you to display the contents of a specific custom post in a widget on in the content area using a shortcode. Even though you could use the text widget that comes with the default WordPress install, this plugin has some major benefits: The Content Blocks plugin enables users to use the WYSIWYG editor for editing the content and adding images. If you are using the standard WordPress text widgets to display content on various areas of your template, this content can only be edited by users with administrator access. If you would like non-administrator accounts to modify the widget content, you can use this plugin to provide them access to the custom posts that provide the content for the widget areas. You can even use the featured image functionality to display them in a widget. The Content Blocks plugin is compatible with the WPML Multi-Language plugin and automatically shows the correct language in the widget area. The Content Blocks can be included in posts and pages using the built-in shortcode functionality. This plugin creates a ‘content_block’ custom post type. You can choose to either display the title on the page or use it to describe the contents and widget position of the content block. Note that these content blocks can only be displayed in the context of the page. I have added ‘public’ => false to the custom post type which means that it is not accessible outside the page context. To add content to a widget, drag it to the required position in the sidebar and select the title of the custom post in the widget configuration. Includes the following translations: Swedish (sv_SE) by Andreas Larsson Spanish (es_ES) by IBIDEM GROUP Portuguese (pt_BR) by Ronaldo Chevalier Polish (pl_PL) by Kuba Skublicki Dutch (nl_NL) by Johan van der Wijk Czech (cs_CZ) by Martin Kucera More translations are very welcome!

Yada Wiki provides a wiki post type, custom tags and categories, an index, and a table of contents option. The plugin allows you to link your wiki pages together using the wiki page titles. Note: As of Yada Wiki 3.6, for current users who have been manually adding HTML tags or special characters to their shortcodes, for security reasons these must be filtered on save. An exception was added for the EM tag because I saw support tickets where users said they were using this tag. If you have been manually editing the shortcodes then you may want to test before installing version 3.6. There are two easy to use shortcode buttons available on the editor toolbar. Rather than try to remember the shortcodes and their values, it is recommended that you use these buttons to generate the shortcodes for you. The “Add Wiki Link” Button: When you click the first button, the add wiki link button, a pop-up opens where you enter the title of the wiki page you are linking to in the “Link” text box. You can optionally enter text into the “Show” text box that you want to show for the link, or leave that blank to just show the title. There is the ability to manually add an “anchor” parameter for on-page links. Please see the documentation for more information on this. When you click “OK”, a shortcode is inserted into your edit window at the cursor location. For example to link to a wiki page called “How To Make Iced Coffee” but show the text for the link as “How To Make My Favorite Drink”: [yadawiki link=”How To Make Iced Coffee” show=”How To Make My Favorite Drink”] You use Wiki Link shortcodes to create the structure of linked pages. The “Add Wiki Listing” Button: The Add Wiki Listing button gives you three options for adding some collected output. Output TOC Page The first option inserts a shortcode that will output your “TOC” page. With Yada Wiki, you can create a special wiki page with the title of “TOC” that will serve as the table of contents for your wiki. You can use wiki links and style the table of contents as you like in the post editor. Selecting this option allows you to embed the TOC page in another page. For example: [yadawikitoc show_toc=”true”] Output Wiki Category The second option inserts a list of the wiki pages for one of your wiki categories. You can optionally choose to output the list by title or by creation date. For example: [yadawikitoc show_toc=”true” category=”Drinks” order=”title”] Output Index The third option inserts a grid of your wiki pages or categories. The output is in a responsive table-like grid and you can choose the number of columns. For example, to output wiki pages: [yadawiki-index type=”pages” columns=”4″] An example for listing a single wiki category by title: [yadawiki-index type=”category-name” category=”States” columns=”3″] An example for listing all wiki categories by title: [yadawiki-index type=”all-categories-name” columns=”3″] Note that in the index listing the category hierarchy only goes down one level deep from to the top. Sidebar Widgets: There are two Yada Wiki widgets. One for showing the TOC page and a list of article titles for a given category in the sidebar and the other for showing recent wiki articles. Please see the FAQ section for information about using the sidebar widgets. Documentation: Documentation is available at https://www.webtng.com/yada-wiki-documentation/ The FAQs below also have good information. Video Walk-through: This video provides a walk-though of all of the features: ** Translations ** The plugin is available in: * English * Spanish Acknowledgements The user @JulianSMoore has been very helpful in suggesting improvements and reviewing changes. Thanks to the user @simplyletgo who contributed the recent wiki post widget.