Is anyone here familiar with WordPress (this is to publish the encyclopedia about my fantasy world)?

[Miaristan]

I'm here because I aspire to write and publish an encyclopedia about my fantasy world.

Seasoned worldbuilding artists often think of WorldAnvil, Inkarnate, etc. but when I checked, I noticed they were very limited and constrained in features and maximum number of contributors.

So, instead, I thought I would instead opt for something more akin to MediaWiki/Wikipedia, so I created a WordPress website a few days ago. I preferred WordPress because it provided much more features and flexibility for an ambitious worldbuilding artist like me.

Now, I was to know if many other people here also used WordPress in the context of their worldbuilding creations, and if so, I was to ask if it was a good idea to install a dedicated wiki/encyclopedia plugin for creating a huge encyclopedia about a fantasy world, of if in the end, it was not very necessary. This is because I tried one plugin, and it does not seem to be very adapted for the ones who would rather have something akin to MediaWiki.

So, thanks you, and have a good day!

 

[pmmg]

So...I had a wordpress site for a game group I had, but not for world building and writing.

I have looked into WorldAnvil, and the turn off to me is that it must be public unless you subscribe and send them money. I would like to build in private and only show the public what I wish.

Word Press has the advantage that it is portable (it can be hosted on any server, including one in your basement if you wish it). It also has a lot of modules to plug in and do a lot of the work for you. If you are not a web coder, you can go quite a long way before that comes to bite you. With any of these platforms (word press, wix, squarepace...) it would not hurt to have someone who understands the code some where you can reach out to.

Um...the features you want to add are entirely on you. If you want a wold building space to pop up your world, and Word Press has enough of the formatting to let you do it...then sounds like a win to me. If that was my aim, I would do it and not look back. But....the work is all on you. If you want a feature and the template, or plug in, does not offer it. you have to code it, or get some one to code it, or...just not have it.

I'd say, for those who want a website, and have zero-to cursory interest in coding, Word Press is a great thing to have. IF you have real coding skill, you might move past it, or you might like that it done a lot of the work already.

For myself, if I become so inclined, I was thinking of using world anvil and just linking to it.

 

[Miaristan]

My website is hosted by Hostinger, which provides a file manager for WP websites for those who would need to look for the PHP code. I had to modify the PHP code only once (to fix an issue with auto-updates for my themes, plugins, and WP version), but the thing is as compared to building a website from scratch, WordPress requires much more minimal coding skills.

It has to be said that originally, I was writing about my fantasy world using MS Word files, but my fantasy world would clearly have been too large to be contained in a single Word file, so I had the idea to create a WordPress website in response. In fact, not even WorldAnvil, Inkarnate, etc. would have been well suited for someone like me who wants to build something very very huge and large.

 

[ThinkerX]

My author site is on WordPress.

I have been meaning to add Worldbuilding info to it for a while. I just need to figure out what buttons to hit....