Reuse without copying

Updated 2026-08-13

The second time you build the same thing, reuse instead. There are three ways, they are not interchangeable, and picking wrong is how a wiki ends up with fourteen nearly-identical cards that all have to be edited by hand.

Which one you want

Same look, different contentCopy the style. The two are unconnected afterwards.

Same thing in several placesA saved block. One definition, and editing it changes every use.

Same page shape, filled from dataA shared layout. The right answer for every weapon, enemy and recipe.

Same start, then edited freelyA template. It gives a new page its blocks and gets out of the way.

Copying a style

Select a block you like, Copy style, select another, Paste. The design travels: colours, spacing, corners, typography. The content does not.

It is the quickest of the three and the one that goes stale. Nothing connects the two blocks afterwards, so use it for a handful, not for forty.

Saved blocks

A saved block is a piece of a page stored under a name and dropped onto any page: a call-to-action, a warning box, an infobox shell.

A saved block is stored once and used anywhere. Edit the saved one and every page using it changes; fork a copy when one page needs to differ.

Build the block until it is right.
With it selected, choose Save as a block and give it a name.
It joins the palette, and you drop it on pages like anything else.

The point is the connection: edit the saved block and every page using it changes. That is what a text nobody wants to update in nine places should be.

When one page needs its own variation, fork it there. Forking makes an independent copy on that page only, and the other uses carry on following the original.

Because editing a saved block changes pages you are not looking at, on a wiki that reviews edits that change goes through review like any other.

Templates

A template is a page-shaped starting point. Make a new page from it and you get its blocks, already arranged. From that moment the page is its own.

TemplateEditing it does not reach back into pages already made from it.For pages that start alike and then diverge: a patch note, a guide article.

Shared layoutEditing it changes every page built from it.For pages that stay alike because they are the same kind of thing.

Templates live under Manage › Templates, and are built in the same editor as everything else.

The rule of thumb

Ask what should happen when you change it later. If every use should follow, you want a saved block or a shared layout. If not, a copied style or a template.

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