Extensions

The built-in blocks cover what every wiki needs. An extension is a bundle of blocks for something more specific: a dossier banner, interactive maps, a crafting calculator.

You do not install one from inside the editor. Extensions ship with the platform, and your wiki chooses which are on.

What an extension gives you

A new wiki starts with everything on, so the palette is full from the first page. Turning things off is for later, when you want a shorter list.

Turn one on or off

1. Open your wiki and click Manage.
2. Click Extensions.
3. Use the switch next to the one you want.

Take the blocks off your pages first, then turn the extension off. And if a block has stopped rendering, the extensions screen is the first thing to check.

Using an extension block

Add it like any other block, then open Properties. The settings come from what the block itself declares, so every option gets a proper control: a picture field gets the media library, a colour gets a picker, a data column gets a list of your columns.

Most extension blocks are data blocks. Many need the page bound to a row before they render anything.

The editor draws each one as it will publish, so what you see on the canvas is the block. One that has no data to draw says so in its place rather than leaving a gap, which means a blank spot is a block you have not fed yet, not a broken one.

A few ship a fuller editor of their own, opened with a button at the top of the panel: a map with its markers, a calculator with its recipes.

What they cannot do

Missing one you need? Check whether Lua already covers it first. Most requests turn out to be a calculation rather than a new kind of block, and Lua is editable in the browser where an extension is not. See Do you need an extension?