You can already easily insert YouTube videos and Google Gadgets into your wiki using the Plugin menu (click Edit >> Insert plugin). Now, we’ve made it easier to extend your wiki by inserting HTML and JavaScript into your wiki. Use HTML/JavaScript to add outside widgets to your wiki Custom HTML/JavaScript allows you (or your admins)Continue reading “New feature: Extend your wiki with embeddable HTML / JavaScript”
Category Archives: New features
Introducing PBwiki Public Editing
Our new feature for public wikis who want global participation and editing on their wiki. Public editing allows anyone to immediately gain access to your wiki — users only have to click “edit” and create a PBwiki account. This is great if you want everyone to have access and you don’t want the added stepContinue reading “Introducing PBwiki Public Editing”
So many choices – what's the best way to invite your users?
Wikis work best as a collaborative site where many people have access to read and contribute. Your job is to find people to contribute to the wiki — our job is to make it super simple for you to invite them. Check out the many ways PBwiki 2.0 has made it easy to add folksContinue reading “So many choices – what's the best way to invite your users?”
New free feature: Wiki color schemes
Starting today, color schemes on all 2.0 PBwikis are free! Earlier, color schemes were a Premium feature. But since we’ve heard more and more of you asking to use colors to customize your wikis, we realized it makes sense to offer them to everyone. With the release of the new settings panel, we’reContinue reading “New free feature: Wiki color schemes”
Introducing the new Settings Panel on all 2.0 wikis
Yesterday, we rolled out a new settings panel for all PBwiki 2.0 wikis, making it easier to control the settings on your wiki. See details about the new settings panel. (Note: Don’t miss out on new features! We’ll be releasing new features for 2.0 wikis, so if you haven’t converted to PBwiki 2.0 yet, pleaseContinue reading “Introducing the new Settings Panel on all 2.0 wikis”
New feature: Classroom accounts for students without email addresses
For the last several months, we’ve been researching and designing a new way to add users to wikis without email addresses — notably, K-8 students. Today, we’re happy to announce a new feature, Classroom Accounts, which will let you add users without email addresses. In consultation with dozens of educators, we’ve created a system thatContinue reading “New feature: Classroom accounts for students without email addresses”
New Feature: Improved Settings Panel
Right now the improved settings panel is being rolled out to all education wikis, all others will see this new setting next week (Aug 18, 2008). Today wiki administrators will see an improved settings panel — with a new interface and easier navigation. The new setting panel has three categories: • Use the ‘Basic Settings‘Continue reading “New Feature: Improved Settings Panel”
New and improved RSS feeds for your 2.0 wiki
We’ve just rolled out improvements to PBwiki RSS feeds. What are RSS feeds? RSS feeds are a great way to stay up-to-date when you have lots of things you’re interested in. You can subscribe to a feed and have new information show up automatically as soon as it’s available. PBwiki has offered RSS feeds forContinue reading “New and improved RSS feeds for your 2.0 wiki”
Search 2.0: Now Better, Faster, Stronger
Mmm, dogfood. Here at PBwiki, we make use of our own product pretty extensively. And having used an internal PBwiki for some three years, we’ve accumulated a pretty large collection of material! This makes it ever more important that we be able to search it and find what we’re looking for. So we’ve dramatically overhauledContinue reading “Search 2.0: Now Better, Faster, Stronger”
New Feature — Re-arrange Your Sidebar Modules
Have you ever wanted to re-arrange your Sidebar on the right side of your wiki? At PBwiki, we just love adding new features. There are enough wiki jockeys here in at PBHQ that it guarantees we’ll have differing opinions on how things should work — that’s one of the reasons we work hard to fitContinue reading “New Feature — Re-arrange Your Sidebar Modules”
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