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Hash Magic URIs for Wikidot 08 Sep 2011 12:22 | 12 comments The Wikidot Team just sneaked in a new feature - and it's extremely useful! ;-) Blog post written for: Advanced users. Most site owners will never use these directly. Previously, if you wanted to open the page editor using a URI, you would type something like this into a live template or ListPages... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Editor buttons - making everyone happy 27 May 2011 06:56 | 10 comments When it comes to hiding things with CSS, there's nothing more heavily disputed than whether or not to hide the editor buttons. Wikidot Community member gerdami would argue that it is the user's right to have all three rows of editor buttons if they want to, and that site administrators should... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Wikimedia is better than Wikidot for wikis 11 May 2011 03:31 | 0 comments This is a big claim, especially as I am writing this from a Wikidot site, and am a regular contributor to the Wikidot community. So why am I claiming this? Edit sections. That's why. When I have another look at a recent article that I was reading on Wikipedia, I notice one thing immediately. Have a... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Wikidot Chatbox CSI 03 May 2011 04:25 | 8 comments Just something I made in my spare time. Already done: It works! Still todo: Put divs (with class names) around the important elements, so that they can be easily styled via CSS Create the actual CSI code, allowing you to control layout and appearance that way, or falling back to the default... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Image 'title' attribute, for describing an image 03 Apr 2011 23:36 | 3 comments Wikidot community administrator RobElliott has discovered an undocumented feature that you can use while embedding images into your wikidot page! The title attribute for [[image ...]], which I'm about to add to the documentation, allows you to specify extra information about an image, which is then... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Reminder to update My Account links 31 Mar 2011 00:21 | 0 comments Hey everyone, just a quick reminder to check any links leading to Wikidot account settings on all of your sites. Since the UI upgrades to the My Account page, several old links have been broken. Here's a map from old to new links, for your convenience: (please let me know if I've forgotten any of... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Publicly-visible feedback system for Wikidot 16 Mar 2011 01:57 | 1 comments To combat spammers and to give contributors additional recognition for their work (and therefore some encouragement to contribute more often), I have proposed a publicly-visible feedback option that Wikidot could implement. The idea only just came to be a few minutes ago, so it is still in it's... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Writer cancelled, STE full-steam ahead 15 Mar 2011 02:45 | 0 comments Some of my previous blog posts mentioned a project I have been working on titled Wikidot Writer, which was intended to be a C#.NET application that would make blogging on the Wikidot.com platform easy for anybody - even new users that don't have a site yet! However, I have decided to cancel that... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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Wikidot API changes, and STE 11 Mar 2011 14:18 | 0 comments I have just posted an announcement detailing some of the API changes that were implemented by Wikidot earlier today. In short, site administrators are given greater control over their sites, and users are given greater control over what the apps they use are able to do to their sites. Please read... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
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ListUsers module: tips & tricks! 03 Mar 2011 07:24 | 0 comments With the addition of the ListUsers module, Wikidot gave us a very powerful tool. We have the ability to show some custom text to any signed-in user. Image taken from DreamsTime.com That text is not only hidden from anonymous visitors to your site - making it very useful in some specific cases - but... Read more... Topics: wikidot |
