WordPress:Help:Editing
The Codex/Wiki Markup
The following editing styles and markup is from MediaWiki's Guide: Editing Overview. For more information on styling these pages, see:
- Guide to Creating New Pages
- Special HTML Characters
- Web-Source's ASCII Symbols Chart
- Help with HTML in MediaWiki
In the chart below, in the left column of the table below, you can see what effects are possible. In the right column, you can see how those effects were achieved. In other words, to make text look like it looks in the left column, type it in the format you see in the right column.
You may want to keep this page open in a separate browser window for reference. If you want to try out things without danger of doing any harm, you can do so in the WordPress:Sandbox.
Sections, paragraphs, lists and lines
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Start your sections with header lines:
New section Subsection Sub-subsection |
== New section == === Subsection === ==== Sub-subsection ==== |
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A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph. (<p> disables this paragraphing until </p> or the end of the section) (in Cologne Blue two newlines and a div tag give just one newline; in the order newline, div tag, newline, the result is two newlines) |
A single newline has no effect on the layout. But an empty line starts a new paragraph. |
| You can break lines without starting a new paragraph. Sufficient as wikitext code is <br />, the XHTML code <br /> is not needed, the system produces this code. |
You can break lines<br /> without starting a new paragraph. |
marks the end of the list.
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* Lists are easy to do: ** start every line with a star *** more stars means deeper levels *A newline *in a list marks the end of the list. *Of course *you can *start again. |
marks the end of the list.
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# Numbered lists are also good ## very organized ## easy to follow #A newline #in a list marks the end of the list. #New numbering starts #with 1. |
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* You can even do mixed lists *# and nest them *#* like this<br />or have newlines<br />inside lists |
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* You can also **break lines<br />inside lists<br />like this |
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; Definition list : list of definitions ; item : the item's definition |
A manual newline starts a new paragraph.
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: A colon indents a line or paragraph. A manual newline starts a new paragraph. |
IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
it will be formatted exactly
as typed;
in a fixed-width font;
lines won't wrap;
ENDIF
this is useful for:
* pasting preformatted text;
* algorithm descriptions;
* program source code
* ASCII art;
* chemical structures;
WARNING If you make it wide,
you force the whole page to be wide and
hence less readable. Never start ordinary lines with spaces. |
IF a line of plain text starts with a space THEN
it will be formatted exactly
as typed;
in a fixed-width font;
lines won't wrap;
ENDIF
this is useful for:
* pasting preformatted text;
* algorithm descriptions;
* program source code
* ASCII horizontal dividing lineart;
* chemical structures; |
<center>Centered text.</center> |
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| A horizontal dividing line: above
and below. (However, in most cases a section header is more useful. The horizontal dividing line should only be used if what follows is logically part of the same section; otherwise that part would be hidden in the TOC.) |
A horizontal dividing line: above ---- and below. |
Summarizing the effect of a single newline: no effect in general, but it ends a list item or indented part; thus changing some text into a list item, or indenting it, is more cumbersome if it contains newlines, they have to be removed; see also Don't use line breaks.
Links, URLs
| What it looks like | What you type |
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Sue is reading about the WordPress:WordPress_Features.
Thus the WordPress:link above is to http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Features, which is the page with the name "WordPress Features". |
Sue is reading about the [[WordPress:WordPress_Features]]. |
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Link to a section on a page, e.g. WordPress:List_of_cities_by_country#Morocco; when section linking does not work the link is treated as link to the page, i.e. to the top; this applies for:
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[[WordPress:List_of_cities_by_country#Morocco]]. |
| Link target and link label are different: about the features of WordPress.
(This is called a piped link). |
Same target, different name: [[WordPress:WordPress Features|about the features of WordPress]] |
| Endings are blended into the link: WordPress:official positions, WordPress:genes |
Endings are blended into the link: [[WordPress:official position]]s, [[WordPress:gene]]s |
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Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: kingdom. Automatically hide namespace: Village pump. The server fills in the part after the | when you save the page. Next time you open the edit box you will see the expanded piped link. A preview interprets the abbreviated form correctly, but does not expand it yet in the edit box. Press Save and again Edit, and you will see the expanded version. The same applies for the following feature. |
Automatically hide stuff in parentheses: [[WordPress:kingdom (biology)|]]. Automatically hide namespace: [[WordPress:Wikipedia:Village pump|]]. |
| When adding a comment to a Talk page,
you should sign it. You can do this by adding three tildes for your user name:
or four for user name plus date/time:
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When adding a comment to a Talk page, you should sign it. You can do this by adding three tildes for your user name: : ~~~ or four for user name plus date/time: : ~~~~ |
WordPress:The weather in London is a page that doesn't exist yet.
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[[WordPress:The weather in London]] is a page that doesn't exist yet. |
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Redirect one article title to another by putting text like this in its first line. |
#REDIRECT [[WordPress:United States]] |
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A link to the page on the same subject in another language or, more generally, to a page on another wiki: [[WordPress::fr:Wikipédia:Aide]]. For more info see m:Help:Interwiki linking. |
[[WordPress:fr:Wikipédia:Aide]], [[WordPress::fr:Wikipédia:Aide]] |
| "What links here" and "Related changes" can be linked as: WordPress:Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:How to edit a page and WordPress:Special:Recentchangeslinked/Wikipedia:How to edit a page |
[[WordPress:Special:Whatlinkshere/ Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] and [[WordPress:Special:Recentchangeslinked/ Wikipedia:How to edit a page]] |
| External links: Set with one bracket and a space between the URL and the link title as: | External links: [http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia], [http://www.nupedia.com] |
Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com.
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Or just give the URL: http://www.nupedia.com. |
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To link to books, you can use ISBN links. ISBN 0123456789X See Help:ISBN links |
ISBN 0123456789X |
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Link to Request for Comments: RFC 123 (URL specified in WordPress:mediawiki:Rfcurl) |
RFC 123 |
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To include links to non-image uploads such as sounds, use a "media" link.
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[[WordPress:media:Sg_mrob.ogg|Sound]] |
Images
| What it looks like | What you type |
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A picture: WordPress:Image:codex-logo-2.png
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A picture: [[WordPress:Image:codex-logo-2.png]] or, with alternate text (strongly encouraged) [[WordPress:Image:codex-logo-2.png|WordPress Codex Logo Draft]] Web browsers render alternate text when not displaying an image -- for example, when the image isn't loaded, or in a text-only browser, or when spoken aloud. See Alternate text for images for help on choosing alternate text. See Extended image syntax for more options. For left float thumbnail image: [[WordPress:Image:Kubrick_Single.jpg|right|thumbnail|WordPress Default Theme]] |
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Clicking on an uploaded image displays a description page, which you can also link directly to: [[WordPress::Image:Wiki.png]] |
[[WordPress::Image:Wiki.png]] |
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To include links to images shown as links instead of drawn on the page, use a "media" link.
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[[WordPress:media:Tornado.jpg|Image of a Tornado]] |
Character formatting
| What it looks like | What you type |
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Emphasize, strongly, very strongly.
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''Emphasize'', '''strongly''', '''''very strongly'''''. |
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You can also write italic and bold if the desired effect is a specific font style rather than emphasis, as in mathematical formulas:
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You can also write <i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b> if the desired effect is a specific font style rather than emphasis, as in mathematical formulas: :<b>F</b> = <i>m</i><b>a</b> |
| A typewriter font for technical terms. | A typewriter font for <tt>technical terms</tt>. |
| You can use small text for captions. | You can use <small>small text</small> for captions. |
| You can and underline new material. |
You can <strike>strike out deleted material</strike> and <u>underline new material</u>. |
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Umlauts and accents: (See MediaWiki's User Guide: Creating special characters]) |
è é ê ë ì í À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ñ ò ó ô œ õ ö ø ù ú û ü ÿ |
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Punctuation: |
¿ ¡ « » § ¶ † ‡ • - – — |
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Commercial symbols: |
™ © ® ¢ € ¥ £ ¤ |
| Subscript: x2 Superscript: x2 or x²
ε0 =
8.85 × 10−12
C² / J m.
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Subscript: x<sub>2</sub>
Superscript: x<sup>2</sup> or x²
or in projects with the templates sub and sup:
Subscript: x{{sub|2}}
Superscript: x{{sup|2}}
ε<sub>0</sub> =
8.85 × 10<sup>−12</sup>
C² / J m.
1 [[WordPress:hectare]] = [[WordPress:1 E4 m²]]
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| Greek characters: α β γ δ ε ζ |
α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ ο π ρ σ ς τ υ φ χ ψ ω Γ Δ Θ Λ Ξ Π Σ Φ Ψ Ω |
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Math characters: |
∫ ∑ ∏ √ − ± ∞ ≈ ∝ ≡ ≠ ≤ ≥ × · ÷ ∂ ′ ″ ∇ ‰ ° ∴ ℵ ø ∈ ∉ ∩ ∪ ⊂ ⊃ ⊆ ⊇ ¬ ∧ ∨ ∃ ∀ ⇒ ⇔ → ↔ ↑ |
x2 ≥ 0 true.
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<i>x</i><sup>2</sup> ≥ 0 true. |
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Complicated formulae:
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<math>\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{x^n}{n!}</math>
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For comparison for the following examples: arrow → italics WordPress:link |
arrow → ''italics'' [[WordPress:link]] |
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Use <nowiki> to suppress interpretation of wiki markup, but interpret character references and remove newlines and multiple spaces: arrow → ''italics'' [[WordPress:link]] |
<nowiki>arrow → ''italics'' [[WordPress:link]]</nowiki> |
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Use <pre> to suppress interpretation of wiki markup and keep newlines and multiple spaces, and get typewriter font, but interpret character references: arrow → ''italics'' [[WordPress:link]] |
<nowiki><pre>arrow → ''italics'' [[WordPress:link]]</nowiki> |
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Use leading space on each line to keep newlines and multiple spaces, and get typewriter font: arrow → italics WordPress:link |
arrow → ''italics'' [[WordPress:link]] |
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Use typewriter font: arrow → italics WordPress:link |
<tt>arrow →</tt> <tt>''italics''</tt> <tt>[[WordPress:link]]</tt> |
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Show character references: → |
&rarr; |
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Commenting page source:
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<!-- comment here --> |
HTML Tables
HTML tables can be quite useful as well. For details on how to use them and discussion about when they are appropriate, see MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables.
Templates
Some text on a page may correspond in the edit box to just a reference to another page, in the form {{name}}, referring to the page "Template:name". This is called a template. For changing that text, edit that other page. Sometimes a separate edit link is provided for this purpose. A convenient way to put such a link in a template in Wikipedia is with en:Template:ed.
Page protection
In a few cases the link labeled "MediaWiki:Editthispage" is replaced by the text "受保护页面" (or equivalents in the language of the project). In that case the page can not be edited.
Separating edits
When moving or copying a piece of text within a page or from another page, and also making other edits, it is useful to separate these edits. This way the diff function can be usefully applied for checking these other edits.