Wikilookup allows you to easily add popups and info cards from Wikipedia (and other wikis) to your posts.
Features
- Easily mark words and terms in your posts to pop information from Wikipedia articles
- Easily add a stylized card in your post and pages that displays information from Wikipedia article
- Pull from multiple language Wikipedias and dictate the default language for your blog content
- Pull information from other wikis easily, like specialized wikis and game wikis
- Robust settings allowing you to control the text and general behavior of the popups and cards
- Support displaying content in Right to Left languages
This plugin was developed for and tested on WordPress 5.0 and above.
Automatic installation
- Go to your Dashboard
- Click on Plugins -> Add new
- Search for "Wikilookup"
- Click on "Install now"
- Click on "activate"
The plugin works out-of-the-box with the given shortcodes
[wikipopup]term[/wikipopup]
and [wikicard title="term"]
.
Please visit the plugin settings for more display options, and to set up any external sources you may want.
Manual installation
For manual installation, download the plugin and upload it to your site. See
instructions on how to manually install a plugin here.
Updating
Automatic updates should always work. However, as always, please ensure you backup your site, just in case.