Add the power of Wikipedia to your Blog.
Wikilookup allows you to easily add popups and info cards from Wikipedia (and other wikis) to your posts.
This plugin offers two pieces: a popup, and a ‘card’, or a static poster, from Wikipedia or other wikis that operate on MediaWiki software.
To add a popup, while editing a post, surround your text with [wikipopup]
shortcode. You can reference a language or a different source, if you’ve set one up.
For example:
– [wikipopup]WordPress[/wikipopup]
– Displays a popup from English Wikipedia about the article “WordPress”
– [wikipopup title="WordPress"]This is some text[/wikipopup]
– Displays a popup from English Wikipedia about the article “WordPress”, while the trigger text is ‘This is some text’
– [wikipopup title="WordPress" source="ext"]This is some text[/wikipopup]
– Displays a popup from the external source you’ve defined as “ext”, about the article “WordPress”, while the trigger text is ‘This is some text’
You can define sources in “Settings -> Wikilookup -> External wikis”.
To add a card, while editing a post, add a line with [wikicard title="term"]
. You can reference a language or a different source, if you’ve set one up.
For example:
– [wikicard title="WordPress"]
– Displays a static card from English Wikipedia about the article “WordPress”.
– [wikicard title="WordPress" lang="es"]
– Displays a static card from Spanish Wikipedia about the article “WordPress”.
– [wikicard title="WordPress" source="ext"]
– Displays a static card from the external source you’ve defined as “ext”, about the article “WordPress”.
You can define sources in “Settings -> Wikilookup -> External wikis”.
You can find the settings page in your Dashboard -> Wikilookup.
This plugin is community translated. Please help translate it!
The base translation file is languages/wikilookup.pot
and the textdomain is wikilookup
.
The code for this plugin is available on github for development. Please feel free to participate!
This plugin was developed for and tested on WordPress 5.0 and above.
The plugin works out-of-the-box with the given shortcodes [wikipopup]term[/wikipopup]
and [wikicard title="term"]
.
Please visit the plugin settings for more display options, and to set up any external sources you may want.
For manual installation, download the plugin and upload it to your site. See instructions on how to manually install a plugin here.
Automatic updates should always work. However, as always, please ensure you backup your site, just in case.