Help:Templates
Summary
Templates are used for various functionality from organizing the main page of a wiki to inserting data. Content that uses templates range from infoboxes, navigation boxes, and licenses and various number of custom templates like DiscordCompact / DiscordWidget.
Related:
Manual
Start
First start by setting up your template documentation pre-made templates. This will be needed for our {{Documentation}}
template that is used on all templates. To create a new template, click "New page" from the sidebar, select "Template" from the dropdown, then enter the name and click Create. Alternatively, place {{ExampleName}}
on your article, then click on the red link with the text Template:ExampleName
.
Template
Let's start by creating a simple template that places the wiki's game name as a hyperlink. Follow the instructions above to create the template page, and name the template Gamename
. Next, place this syntax into your template, replace "Game Name" with the wikis game, and press "Save page."
<includeonly>[[Game Name]]</includeonly><noinclude>{{Documentation}}[[Category:Templates]]</noinclude>
Output
As seen in our test template that you created. We originally had
MP5 is a [[Weapons|weapon]] featured in [[Game 1]].
Now we can replace Game 1 with
MP5 is a [[Weapons|weapon]] featured in {{Gamename}}.
Doc Template
Now head to {{ExampleName/doc}}
or Template:ExampleName/doc
and create a Documation template.
This template places the game name {{Gamename}} as a hyperlink for article pages. <noinclude>[[Category:Template documentation|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>
Finally visit the main template and purge the article Template:ExampleName?action=purge
so that the documentation can show.