Tutorial on Creating a new Wiki Page using BetterDocs plugin within WordPress. First, you will need to have an account on the website. To create an account, please go to “We Welcome your FIB WIki Contribution.”
The default account permission is set to ‘Contributor.’ As a contributor, you can create Wiki pages. Your content will need to be approved by an Editor before publishing to the website. Once you have successfully created a few web pages. Please request to be upgraded to ‘Editor.’
The probationary ‘Contributor’ status was created for two reasons: First, is to provide additional technical support and two, is to make sure that we are not publishing content that infringes on copyrights. We actively avoid regurgitating previously copyrighted content. If someone else has published it, we can link to it without recreating it.
Creating a new Wiki Page using BetterDocs #
Creating a BetterDocs Wiki page is as easy as 1-2-3:
- Log into your account.
- On dashboard, select the BetterDocs tab on the left-hand menu (red arrow in Figure 1).
- Once on the BetterDocs page, create a new page by clicking the ‘Add New Doc’ button (green arrow in Figure 1).
Adding Content to the Page #
First things first, begin by adding a descriptive title. It is as easy as typing into the title area (green arrow in Figure 2). The title you choose will become the URL. This URL will stay static unless you manually change it.
To add a text block, start typing in the page after the title section. The ‘Enter’ key creates a new block. The format of each block can be edited to fit the content type. Once you master this, it will save time with editing. There are a variety of ways which you can search the available content types. We recommend starting the block with the ‘/’ character followed by the block type. For example, to add subheadings, type ‘/heading’ to create a new subheading or to add an image, type ‘/image.’
Publishing Content #
Once your page is complete and you are ready to publish, there are two major steps. First, select the the category that the page should be saved under in the right hand panel, shown at the red arrow in Figure 2. Lastly, press the blue Publish button on the top right of the page. If your level requires review by an Editor, the page will be published to the website after the review.
