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I would like to know my options for how best to use WordPress as a wiki. I tried Media Wiki, but the sheer amount of changes I need to make to code to make even trivial changes turned me off. Way off.

Googling doesn't reveal much. What are the best options for using WP as a wiki? (This can be a community question discussing various options.)

In particular, I would like something that addresses:

  • Links to non-existing pages actually link to a "create new page" page
  • Editing pages without going through /wp-admin/ (i.e. the back-end)
  • Searching/listing existing pages when linking (i.e. linking by title, not by URL)

What are my options?

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WordPress is not a wiki, you're mixing two very different styles of content management systems here. Do you want to run a wiki on top of WordPress (using the WP backend to manage things) or beside WordPress? – EAMann♦ Oct 14 '11 at 19:27
@EAMann I thought my question would have made that clear; I want to run a Wordpress site as a wiki. That is, to use Wordpress as a base for a wiki. It has the majority of features I need already. – ashes999 Oct 14 '11 at 19:28
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Wordpress CMS is for blogging you can do this with it but can make something similar like this with your own logics but i recommend you to use other CMS there are many CMS for wiki also check this top 5.

MediaWiki

MoinMoin

PhpWiki

OddMuseWiki

TikiWiki

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If you can afford $30 you can buy wordpresswiki theme. Check the demo here

If you wanna buy it, you can buy it from here

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It seems like just a theme, no features (like editing from the front page). – ashes999 Oct 14 '11 at 19:15
No i'm not affiliated with them. That theme is one of the most popular wordpress theme in themeforest. As of today 846 members purchased that item. $30 is too low for that theme And yes ofcourse it is worth for your $30. – Giri Oct 14 '11 at 19:18
It's not actually a wiki though, it's a knowledgebase theme. – Thomas McDonald Oct 14 '11 at 19:43
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First of all, WordPress is not a wiki. Wikis are a fundamentally different form of content management system (where anyone can manage information). WordPress is meant to publish content, wikis are meant to collaboratively develop content.

Case-in-point, the WordPress project uses a wiki for Codex documents ... but it runs MediaWiki rather than WordPress itself to do so.

That said, you certainly can use WordPress to power a wiki ... it just won't be easy.

Poking around on Google, I did manage to find these options for you:

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Wordpress is a flexible CMS. It has content (pages), revisioning, multiple concurrent users, all that good stuff. I disagree that it's fundamentally different. – ashes999 Oct 15 '11 at 14:59
Flexible, yes. But the workflow for managing content in WordPress is not at all similar to the workflow for managing content on a wiki. Rather than try to reinvent the wheel, you should stick with another proven solution. As I mentioned before, even the official WordPress site uses MediaWiki to power the Codex. – EAMann♦ Mar 23 at 17:19
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