Dennis

Encyclopedia is the state of the art WordPress Encyclopedia / Lexicon / Glossary / Wiki / Dictionary / Knowledge base / Directory / Vocabulary plugin which enables you to create, manage and present a knowledge base, completely fused in your WordPress and fully compatible with all the cool publishing tools you like. Really!
Enjoy the easy way to manage your contents with WordPress in combination with a whole bunch of smart features like automatically cross linking in your websites contents. Additionally an own glossary gives search engines more content which results in better rankings for you!
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Manage and organize your items as encyclopedia, lexicon, glossary, Wiki, dictionary or knowledge base or whatever you want</li>
<li>Automatically generated index page with all items, sorted alphabetically, with prefix filter on top (optional)</li>
<li>Every item has its own page with unique URL</li>
<li>SEO conform URL structure for all kind of pages</li>
<li>Tags and categories¹ to classify your items (both tags and categories are disjunct from your post tags and post categories)</li>
<li>Prefix filter (A|B|C…X|Y|Z) above single view and archive index page which allows a letter-by-letter item filtering</li>
<li>Works with Latin, Arabian, Russian, Chinese, Turkish, and all other UTF-8 compliant languages!</li>
<li>Automatic association of related items (based on common tags)</li>
<li>Automatic linking of all your items appearing in your post and page contents (cross linking)</li>
<li>You can define the window target of the links of the automatically linked items¹</li>
<li>Selectable content types (pages, posts, media, custom posts types) in which the items should be linked automatically¹</li>
<li>Completely translatable – .pot file is included</li>
<li>Supports WPML flawless and enables you to create a multilingual knowledge base</li>
<li>Supports the WordPress theme template hierarchy and the parent-child-theme paradigm</li>
<li>Supports user defined HTML templates</li>
<li>Supports revisions for your items – perfect if you have multiple authors¹</li>
<li>Supports item comments¹²</li>
<li>Supports featured images as item thumbnails¹²</li>
<li>Supports excerpts for your entered items (the same way you already know from regular posts)</li>
<li>Supports WordPress user rights and capabilities¹</li>
<li>Supports the WordPress menus and enables you to add all components of your encyclopedia to any menu</li>
<li>Supports RSS feeds for the index page and for the comments</li>
<li>Clean and intuitive user interface</li>
<li>Flawless integration of audio, video, multimedia elements and shortcodes in the content of your entries</li>
<li>Search function for exclusive searching in encyclopedia items</li>
<li>Widget to display the exclusive encyclopedia search in the sidebar</li>
<li>Auto-complete and item suggestions for search phrases¹</li>
<li>Automatic redirect of a user to the items page if the user searches for an exact entry title</li>
<li>Widget to display the items in your sidebar</li>
<li>Widget to display the tag and categories of your encyclopedia in the sidebar</li>
<li>Includes a bunch of filters to give you the control of the behavior of this piece of code</li>
<li>Import and export directly via the official “<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-importer/" rel="ugc">WordPress Importer</a>” by Automattic Inc.</li>
<li>Works great with WordPress Multisite</li>
<li>Personal one-on-one real-time support by the developer¹</li>
<li>No ads or branding anywhere – perfect white label solution¹</li>
</ul>
¹ Available in <a href="https://dennishoppe.de/en/wordpress-plugins/encyclopedia" rel="nofollow ugc">Encyclopedia Pro</a>. 
² Your theme needs to support this too.
<h4>Use cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dictionary – Create a dictionary of specifically used items on your site.</li>
<li>Tooltip – Add tooltips with descriptions to your site.</li>
<li>Knowledge base – Create a knowledge base of useful articles and definitions.</li>
<li>Encyclopedia – Build an internal encyclopedia for your site.</li>
<li>Synonyms – Keep and displays synonyms that you are using.</li>
<li>Lexicon – Build a lexicon.</li>
<li>Vocabulary – Build a vocabulary of custom words and expressions.</li>
<li>Explanations – Explain the meanings of words in your posts or pages.</li>
<li>Translate – Translate items and definitions into any defined language using Google Translate.</li>
<li>Wikipedia – Add Wikipedia content to your site.</li>
<li>Videos & Media – Show YouTube / Vimeo videos in your entries.</li>
<li>Music – Include mp3 voice or music files.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Getting started / First aid</h4>
<ol>
<li>View <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/encyclopedia-lexicon-glossary-wiki-dictionary/installation/" rel="ugc">Installation guide on WordPress.org</a></li>
<li>View <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/encyclopedia-lexicon-glossary-wiki-dictionary/faq/" rel="ugc">Frequently Asked Questions on WordPress.org</a></li>
<li>View the <a href="https://dennishoppe.de/en/wordpress-plugins/encyclopedia" rel="nofollow ugc">Encyclopedia Pro documentation</a></li>
<li>Get exclusive <a href="https://dennishoppe.de/en/support" rel="nofollow ugc">personal one-on-one support</a></li>
</ol>
<h4>Settings</h4>
You can find the settings page in your Dashboard -> Settings -> Encyclopedia.
<h4>Template files</h4>
All plugin outputs can be changed via user defined HTML templates. Just put the templates you want to overwrite inside your theme folder (no matter if parent theme or child theme). You can find the default templates in the plugin folder in “templates/”. You can find a list of the available template files in documentation of the pro version. Please do not modify the original templates! You would lose all your modifications when updating the plugin!
<h4>Questions and support requests</h4>
Please use the support forum on WordPress.org only for this free lite version of the plugin. For the pro version there is a separate support package available. Please do not use the WordPress.org support forum for questions about the pro version or questions about my services! Of course you can hire me for consulting, support, programming and customizations at any time.
<h4>Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>This Plugin is available in English.</li>
<li>Diese Erweiterung ist in Deutsch verfügbar. (<a href="https://DennisHoppe.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dennis Hoppe</a>)</li>
<li>这个插件可用于简体中文。(<a href="https://www.hunterpedia.cn/" rel="nofollow ugc">Robin Pang</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translate this plugin</h4>
This plugin is community translated. You can help translate it or improve existing translations <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/encyclopedia-lexicon-glossary-wiki-dictionary/" rel="nofollow ugc">on the official translation platform</a>.
You can find the Translation.pot file in the languages/ folder in the plugin directory. The textdomain of this plugin is “encyclopedia-lexicon-glossary-wiki-dictionary”.
<h4>Real life examples</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://nationale-naturlandschaften.de/nationalparke/wissensbeitraege" rel="nofollow ugc">Wissen und Informationen über Nationalparke in Deutschland</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.junior-ranger.de/lexikon/" rel="nofollow ugc">Junior Ranger by NNL e.V.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.papiliorama.ch/enzyklopaedie/" rel="nofollow ugc">Papiliorama</a></li>
<li><a href="http://betterhealthkare.com/dictionary/" rel="nofollow ugc">BetterHealthKare</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.gruenderkueche.de/lexikon/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gründer ABC</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pflege-deinen-schwanz.de/glossar/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pflege-Deinen-Schwanz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.bwl-lexikon.de/wiki/" rel="nofollow ugc">BWL Lexikon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vergaberecht.law/enzyklopaedie/" rel="nofollow ugc">Koenen Bauanwälte – Enzyklopädie für Vergaberecht</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.yourlittleprofessor.com/lexicon/" rel="nofollow ugc">Your Little Professor</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jagdhose.net/glossar/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jagdhose.net</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.kfz.net/autolexikon/" rel="nofollow ugc">Kfz.net</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.waldhelden.de/wohnmobil-wiki/" rel="nofollow ugc">Waldhelden</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wartenberg.at/lexikon/" rel="nofollow ugc">Wartenberg & Co</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bitcoinnews.ch/enzyklopaedie/" rel="nofollow ugc">BitcoinNews.ch</a></li>
<li><a href="https://puzzleboxhorror.com/encyclopedia-of-supernatural-horror/" rel="nofollow ugc">Puzzle Box Horror</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Limitations of the lite version</h4>
The most features are available but you cannot select every option. You will find a small notice for each unavailable option on the settings page. The lite version contains advertisements for third-party services and products.

Encyclopedia / Glossary / Wiki

Supercharged tool to build your own awesome Encyclopedia / Lexicon / Glossary / Wiki / Dictionary / Knowledge base / Directory / Vocabulary in no time

encyclosphere

psqr

Write encyclopedia articles for the world from your blog! Plugin makes adding your articles to encyclosphere aggregators as easy as pressing a button.
<h3>Step One: Set up your blog’s digital identity.</h3>
First, simply install <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/virtual-public-square/" rel="ugc">the Virtual Public Square plugin</a>, as you would any WordPress plugin.
Next, set up the did:psqr identity keys from the users list display. You have two options on how to generate your DID: EITHER (a) let the plugin create keys for you automatically (this is easy) OR (b) create them yourself offline and upload them to your blog (this is harder).
Again, EITHER (a) Use the plugin: go to your Users list, and search for the account(s) you would like to create DIDs for. Admins will see buttons to allow generation, upload, or delete signature files for each user. Creating a DID for a user is simply a matter of pressing “Generate” and then filling out the form:
OR (b) Use the command line tool: first, <a href="https://public-square.github.io/cli/" rel="nofollow ugc">follow the directions</a> to create a specialized did:psqr identity; then again navigate to the Users list and press “Upload” to upload the file.

Note: the only difference between option (a) and (b) is that the code that creates your DID runs either on your blog server or by you, somewhere else. The same sorts of DID files will end up in the same place, on your blog.)
<h3>Step Two: Configure the EncycloShare plugin.</h3>
After installing the EncycloShare plugin (this one), you must configure your options at Settings > EncycloShare. There are inline instructions there. Pay close attention to all sections. They are all important (especially the password and the license!).
Important note: at present, you will have to get in touch with an aggregator in order to obtain a password and to verify a publisher code.

<h3>Important</h3>
The 100% free (OSS) EncycloShare plugin adds the encyclopedic articles on your blog to the Encyclosphere. This means submitting your articles to various aggregators, so that your article(s) will (if accepted) appear on <a href="https://encyclosearch.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloSearch</a>, <a href="https://encycloreader.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloReader</a>, <a href="https://encyclopedia.dara.global/#" rel="nofollow ugc">DARA</a>, the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/encyclosphere/olhghbhocpjleboiiigeljhimfilkfnn" rel="nofollow ugc">Encyclosphere Chrome plugin</a>, and soon others. This is a rapidly growing open, shared, and censorship-resistant database of publicly-available encyclopedia articles, and guarantees that your article will live on long after you are gone.
Contribute to the global encyclopedia network, while retaining total control and licensing over your work, and bypassing Wikipedia.
Important: this plugin will not work without setup. Follow the instructions in the Installation section.
The plugin provides three pages/widgets: 
1. a “Publish to Encyclosphere” button with per-article settings, located at the bottom of each blog post and page; 
2. a Settings page, with global settings; and 
3. a Dashboard panel, listing of all encyclopedia posts (ZWI files) that you submit.
The plugin (and its required digital identity plugin) does the following for you, after the required setup: 
1. allows you to submit articles to Encyclosphere aggregators (see above), including all your text, images, and probably other data as well, preserving your basic formatting; 
2. for each submitted article, creates a ZWI file (“zipped wiki”: the standard encyclopedia article file format), deposited in a directory that you can make public if you like DOUBLECHECK THIS; 
3. creates a digital identity associated with your blog (which you can use for many purposes), which follows the entirely self-owned digital identity standard did:psqr (see below); 
4. digitally signs your article, using your did:psqr digital identity; 
5. allows you to configure basic data about your encyclopedia collection (such as license and language); and 
6. allows you to tag your submitted ZWI files with categories, by tying in with the WordPress category system.
NOTE: this requires the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/virtual-public-square/" rel="ugc">Virtual Public Square (VPS) plugin</a>. Install the 100% free-and-OSS VPS plugin before attempting to use EncycloShare!
<h3>DISCLAIMERS</h3>
You are the sole determiner of what license you publish under.
<blockquote>
While there is a default Creative Commons license selected, you do not have to use that license. There is a long list of licenses for you to choose a license from. If you do not want to permit any other websites to make use of your content, then do not use this plugin!
</blockquote>
Aggregation of your article is not guaranteed.
<blockquote>
Using this plugin does not guarantee your article will appear in any aggregator. Neither the plugin nor the Knowledge Standards Foundation (KSF) determines whether your content will be accepted for inclusion in any particular aggregator. The programmers that run the two KSF-affiliated aggregators, EncycloReader and EncycloSearch, make these determinations independently of the KSF Board. Other aggregators in the broader Encyclosphere network are entirely legally independent and separate, and make their own decisions.
</blockquote>
Depending on your license, your article might be published in places you did not know about or explicitly agree to.
<blockquote>
If you do not understand this, do not use this plugin. Anyone might set up an aggregator and, depending on your license, they might legally republish your content. It is your decision to permit them to do so. But open content projects like Wikipedia and MIT OpenCourseWare have wisely decided to make their content very widely available. The KSF commends this practice and hopes you decide to follow it.
</blockquote>
Article publishing is not tracked (at present).
<blockquote>
The plugin does not display information about whether your publishing has been accepted. You must click through yourself in order to make that determination.
</blockquote>
Articles can not be removed/unpublished with this plugin.
<blockquote>
There is no “unpublish” feature at present (we cannot say whether there ever will be one). But two notes on this. (1) You can contact individual aggregators and request that they remove your post. Whether they are legally obligated to do so depends on the license you have chosen; most permissions granted by open content licenses are permanent and irrevocable. (2) You can try replacing the text of an article with a blank page and then submit that. It is possible (not guaranteed) that the aggregator you have chosen will interpret this as an intention to remove your article.
</blockquote>
<h3>In more detail</h3>
The standard file format for encyclopedia articles, the <a href="https://docs.encyclosphere.org/#/zwi-format" rel="nofollow ugc">ZWI file format</a>, has many requirements (specified by the <a href="https://encyclosphere.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Knowledge Standards Foundation</a>). The EncycloShare plugin makes your posts fit these requirements. The plugin takes your encyclopedia post, uses it to prepare all necessary files (such as images) and directories following the ZWI standard, and finally compresses the result in a single ZWI file. A ZWI file is a a kind of ZIP file, so you can use any ZIP reader to view the contents, if you like.
The plugin then posts the ZWI file to an aggregator or aggregators of your choosing, when you instruct it to do so. Depending on your license, the ZWI file might then (eventually) propagate to other aggregators. Each aggregator is responsible for maintaining its own database. Because Encyclosphere aggregators are developing a shared database standard as well, they can easily share articles, including yours. (We cannot guarantee that your work will be accepted by any given aggregator. Developers can set up their own aggregators, by installing the KSF’s free aggregator engine, <a href="https://gitlab.com/ks_found/encycloengine" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloEngine</a>.)
All ZWI files are stored in a <code>/zwifiles</code> subdirectory of the standard WordPress <code>/uploads</code> directory. So an article might be found, for example, at <code>https://YOURDOMAIN.COM/wp-content/uploads/zwifiles/YOUR-ARTICLE-12345.zwi</code>.
Publishing, or submission to the Encyclosphere, happens when you press the “Publish to Encyclosphere” button at the bottom of every WordPress post and page. You cannot, at this time, “unsubmit” an article, so make sure you really want to submit it. If you want to make edits and resubmit, you can. Probably a good way to delete an article from the encyclosphere would be to simply make your page blank, and then submit the blank page. That is sure to be rejected, and the rejected ZWI will probably overwrite the old article, depending on circumstances.
The Dashboard Panel shows any ZWI files that have been created. For now, you will have to follow the links provided in the panel to determine whether your submission has been accepted. You can also follow links to download, edit, and view articles in your collection.
<h3>About Digital Signatures</h3>
Your ZWI files are digitally signed and therefore can be authenticated as yours, wherever they eventually can be found on the internet. These digital signatures follow the <a href="https://vpsqr.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">did:psqr</a> “Virtual Public Square” digital identity standard. The KSF chose this standard because it allows you to declare and maintain your own identity on your own domain—so it is robustly self-owned. A digital signature is essential to maintaining your credit and claim to ownership in a wide-open network like the Encyclosphere. Aggregators will cryptographically validate your ZWI submissions (EncycloShare handles this for you automatically); such validation is required for acceptance by these network aggregators. All this is why you must install the (equally 100% free) Virtual Public Square plugin to utilize EncycloShare.
Your digital identity takes the form of a Decentalized Identifier (DID) file. DID files contain identifying information you wish to share with the public and public keys used to verify your content. Your DID, when it is created, will be accessible at <code>https://YOURDOMAIN.COM/.well-known/psqr</code>. The Virtual Public Square plugin uses the W3C’s DID standard, and particularly the <code>did:psqr</code> specification, to attach proof of provenance to your content for distribution; further information on this specification is available at <code>https://vpsqr.com</code>.
Users are required to generate or upload their keys before they can publish. 
The Virtual Public Square plugin automatically creates, uploads, and stores the relevant identity files according to the did:psqr digital identity standards. Instructions on how to do this (it is not hard) can be found under “Installation.”
<h3>Usage</h3>
Load a post or a page in edit mode. Some settings for the EncycloShare widget can be found below the text of your post. You can change a few values for each article you publish in ZWI format; these features and additions will expand. Any WordPress categories you add to a post or page will be added to the ZWI file format. Push the “Publish to Encyclosphere” button to publish your article to your selected aggregators.
This button is visible for these user classes: editor, admin, author, and contributor. A toggle hidden response returns the results of your submission; these server responses are shown once and not saved.
Go to https://encycloreader.org or https://encyclosearch.org/ to check whether your articles have been accepted. You can also find relevant links in the Dashboard Panel:

A Dashboard Panel (the Admin Area home page found at <code>/wp-admin/index.php</code>) will list any ZWI files found in the uploads directory.
<h3>Changelog/Terms</h3>
<h3>1.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Initial release</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://encyclosphere.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Knowledge Standards Foundation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://encycloreader.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloReader</a></li>
<li><a href="https://encyclosearch.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">EncycloSearch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Terms of Use</h3>
See DISCLAIMERS under “Important” tab. Users understand that their work will be shared over an open network under a license or licenses that they solely determine.
Open Source Warranty. The Software includes certain Open Source Software. Open Source Software is governed solely by the applicable open source licensing terms, if any, and is provided “AS IS”. Other than as provided in the license, the Knowledge Standards Foundation makes no other warranties, express or implied, and hereby disclaims all implied warranties, including any warranty of merchantability and warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.
Knowledge Standards Foundation provides no warranty specifically related to any Open Source Software or any applicable Open Source Software licensing terms.
The foregoing language is not intended to limit Knowledge Standards Foundation’s warranty obligation for the Solution pursuant to Section 12.1. “Open Source Software” means software with its source code made available pursuant to a license by which, at a minimum, the copyright holder provides anyone the rights to study, change, and/or distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

EncycloShare

Write encyclopedia articles for the world from your blog! Plugin makes adding your articles to encyclosphere aggregators as easy as pressing a button.

Encyclopedia / Glossary / Wiki vs EncycloShare