Wikipedia Preview Plugin

Enhance your website with free knowledge straight from Wikipedia!

Install Wikipedia Preview, the free add-on designed to better engage your visitors and improve the user experience on your website.

The Wikipedia Preview plugin provides context to your site’s visitors with content directly from Wikipedia. It allows you to add links to your content so that when your visitors click or hover on them, they see a pop-up box with information and images straight from Wikipedia. With Wikipedia Preview your visitors gain context on a topic, without ever leaving your website.

Wikipedia Preview is an official plug-in designed and developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.

The plug-in is entirely free to download and use, in line with the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission to provide free knowledge for everyone.

Benefits

• Rich-media content straight from Wikipedia, to give your site’s visitors the context they need, without ever having to leave your website.
• Always free.
• Available in 300 languages.
• Easy to set up. Adding Wikipedia Preview links is even easier than adding other hyperlinks.
• Leveraging the content and brand name of one of the most popular websites in the world.

Features

• Can be set up using the same process you use to add hyperlinks to your articles or using the Gutenberg editor custom tool.
• Handles any link to a Wikipedia article regardless of language, lead image presence or length.
• Site owners can choose a specific section of an article as a preview, not limited to just the lead section.
• Supports dark mode option for improved readability.
• Works for Right-to-Left (RTL) and Left-To-Right (LTR) languages.
• Offers access to a built-in gallery to dive into article images.
• Can be disabled for any page using the post metadata sidebar.
• Uses Gutenberg editor custom tool to search for Wikipedia articles and visualize Wikipedia Preview for readers.

How to add preview links to your site

Option 1 – How to add Wikipedia Preview links using the Classic Editor:

• Add a Wikipedia article link to your site’s content using the same process you use to add hyperlinks to your articles.

Option 2 – How to add Wikipedia Preview links using the Gutenberg/ Block Editor:

1. Highlight the text you want to link to a Wikipedia article.
2. Select ‘W’ – Wikipedia Preview icon from the menu.
3. You will see a list of suggested articles. Select the one you want to link to.
4. Wikipedia Preview will automatically turn the link into a preview of the relevant Wikipedia article. You can easily customize the preview content by selecting a specific section of the article.

Setting up the Wikipedia Preview plugin requires two simple steps:

1. Install and activate the plugin on your site for free.
2. Add preview links to your site content to improve the experience for your site visitors.

INSTALLATION:

Option 1 – Install using the automatic plug-in installer:

1. To add a plugin using the built-in plugin installer:
2. Navigate to Plug-ins > select Add New.
3. Use the search form in the top-right and search Wikipedia Preview.
4. Click the Install Now button to install the plug-in.
5. Once the plug-in installation is complete, click Activate to activate the plugin.

Option 2 – Upload via WordPress Admin:

1. If you have a copy of the plug-in downloaded as a zip file, you can manually upload it and install it through the Plug-ins admin screen.
2. Navigate to Plugins > Add New.
3. Click the Upload Plugin button at the top of the screen.
4. Select the zip file from your local filesystem.
5. Click the Install Now button.
6. When the installation is complete, you’ll see “Plug-in installed successfully.” Click the Activate Plug-in button.

AFTER ACTIVATION:

It’s easy to add Wikipedia Preview links to your site. It takes only a few seconds to add a preview link and create a richer experience for your site visitors.

Option 1 – How to add Wikipedia Preview links using the Classic Editor:

• Add a Wikipedia article link to your site’s content using the same process you use to add hyperlinks to your articles.

Option 2 – How to add Wikipedia Preview links using the Gutenberg/ Block Editor:

1. Highlight the text you want to link to a Wikipedia article.
2. Select ‘W’ – Wikipedia Preview icon from the menu.
3. You will see a list of suggested articles. Select the one you want to link to.
4. Wikipedia Preview will automatically turn the link into a preview of the relevant Wikipedia article.
5. To customize the preview content, choose “Sections” from the toolbar. Select a specific section of the article as the preview content.

GETTING STARTED:

Wikipedia Preview gives your site visitors context without leaving your site. We recommend adding links to words, pronouns, or phrases that you think your site visitors might be confused about or want more information about. Some sections of your site may be enhanced by adding a lot of links; other sections of your site might not need any.
Take a few minutes to add links retroactively to your existing content, and take just a few seconds to add links to new content as you create it in the future. Your visitors will thank you!
Let us know what you think about the product as you’re using it – we love to hear from you.

1. 

   Highlight text and select the 'W' icon to add a Wikipedia Preview in the Gutenberg editor

2. 

   Choose the desired Wikipedia article from the search results to create the preview

3. 

   Preview the Wikipedia article and customize the content using the toolbar

4. 

   Choose a specific section of the Wikipedia article to add as a preview

5. 

   Browse through the image gallery in the Wikipedia Preview with full-screen view and navigation options

6. 

   Add Wikipedia preview in the classic editor by inserting Wikipedia article link as usual

7. 

   Wikipedia Preview on a mobile device

8. 

   Browse through full-screen images in Wikipedia Preview on mobile devices