Do you want to create not just another public with pictures and music, but a really interesting community with useful content? Then you just need to know how to create a wiki page. And today we will learn how to do it.
What is wiki markup for?
In fact, there are dozens of use cases. For example, in Wikipedia, with the help of this markup language, all articles are drawn up. The VKontakte site also supports the creation of wiki pages: with their help, you can create a group menu or create a lengthy article where the text is interspersed with photos, videos and other materials.
Unlike regular posts, here you have much more options for formatting: adding headers, highlighting in bold or italics, any images, links, etc. And if you want, you can even make a full-fledged mini-site.
Now let's talk about how to create a wiki page.
Step 1: find out the group ID and create a new page
First you need to get the ID of your group or public. In most cases, pretty URLs are used instead of a numerical combination. You can get ID by opening community statistics:
Go to the next step. How to create a wiki page for a group? In fact, you just need to enter a new command link in the address bar of the browser. It looks like this:
Instead of we enter the ID of our community, and instead of "Page_Name" - actually the name that we came up with. After that, press Enter. A new wiki page will be automatically created, and the message "Fill with content" will appear on the screen.
Step 2: create a post
Perhaps this is the simplest thing that can be done using the Wiki markup language.
Anyone who has worked in at least the trivial Notepad will understand the functionality of the visual editor. The quick access panel has all the main functions:
- text style (bold / oblique);
- alignment (left, right, center);
- bulleted list ;
- adding headers H1-H3;
- highlight quotes;
- adding links;
- add multimedia (photo, video, audio).
Step 3: Publish
So, you already know how to create a VKontakte wiki page. All that remains is to publish it in your community. In order for subscribers to see the link, it is better to immediately prepare a nice cover. It is desirable that the picture had a link or a call to click on the "View" button below.
Useful Chips
In principle, to understand how to create a standard-type wiki page, a visual editor is more than enough. In addition, at any time, you can click on the "Preview" button and see how your post will look after publication. Another thing is if you need to make a beautiful and convenient menu for navigating a group. Here you will already need basic knowledge of the markup language itself.
Photo Wrap
If you want the image not to be in the center of the page between two paragraphs, but to the side of the text, you need to make a subscription | right or | left in the code of the image itself.
Spoilers
Anyone who is interested in how to create a VKontakte wiki page should remember another very useful tag - Hider. With it, you can make hidden blocks in which information is opened by clicking.
Anchors
This is very convenient if you publish a voluminous article with a large number of headings and subsections. Then at the very top of the page you can make a table of contents so that the user can instantly go to the block of interest to him. All that is needed is to enter the exact title of the title after the lattice , and after the straight line, the link text.
Tables
They can be used not only for their intended purpose, but also in order to accurately arrange any information. Including to create a menu with icons. There are only a few basic tags:
- {| - beginning of the table;
- | + - header;
- | - - a new line;
- | - new cell;
- ! - selected cell (with a darkened background);
- |} - end of table.
The cells themselves can contain any information - text, images, videos, documents. In practice, it looks something like this:
Graphic menu
Perhaps this is the coolest thing you can do, knowing how to create a wiki page. In fact, there is nothing complicated, but you have to tinker with thinking through the layout and slicing the images. In order for the menu to display correctly, you must strictly comply with the dimensions, focusing on a width of 510 or 504 px. If you want the photos to be “glued” to each other, add nopadding to the image code.
And if you use the noborder parameter instead, there will be a 6 px distance between the pictures. Then the total width of all photos in a row is calculated by the formula 510-6 * N (N is the number of images in a row).
Similar tags and notations are used on all resources where the creation of wiki pages is supported.