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Article Tutorials

Articles are the powerhouse of your worldbuilding. Learn to write, manage and format your articles on World Anvil, to take your worldbuilding to the next level, whatever you're building.

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Guide to the Articles & World Manager

Manage your articles and categories, edit your world settings, and even edit your articles in a full-page editor—all from a single place!
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How to Create an Article with Your Keyboard

Use keyboard shortcuts to create new articles without ever reaching for your mouse!
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How to Enable Manual Save on Your Articles

Control exactly what saves when!
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Guide to the Articles & World Manager

Manage your articles and categories, edit your world settings, and even edit your articles in a full-page editor—all from a single place!
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How to Create New Articles as Private by Default

Ensure all your new articles are private with this setting.
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How to Set Up Parent Articles

Parent articles are flexible tool to organize the smaller articles in your world.
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How to Set Who Can See Your Article

Engage your readers and players by giving them exclusive access to private content.
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How to Set Up Linear Navigation in Your Articles

When editing an article, you can set what the "next" and "previous" articles should be—known as "linear navigation". When viewing an article, the next and previous articles will be displayed at the bottom.
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How to Use & Edit Article Title Icons

Icons are a great way to identify different kinds of content at a glance. When creating a new article, an icon corresponding to the article's template will be automatically added to the left of the title. Here's how to edit, add, and remove them!
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Feature Guide to Editing Articles

Articles are the core of your worldbuilding on World Anvil; they hold all the written information about people, places, and things in your world! Here's a quick guide to mastering the edit interface.
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Anatomy of an Article

Learn about the different parts of a World Anvil article and how to make things appear where you want them to!
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Feature Guide to the Autolinker

If an article mentions multiple other articles, use the Autolinker to link all of them with a single click! Here's how it works.
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Feature Guide to Articles

This guide walks you through the main aspects of World Anvil’s Articles, and will get you started on your worldbuilding quest!
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How to Embed the Dictionary Widget from the Language Template

Learn how to create a dictionary for your conlang as part of a Language article, and how to embed it anywhere in your world!
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How to Use a Spellchecker

Spellcheckers are really important to make sure you catch all those typos that manage to sneak their way into your writing! Here's how to make sure your spellchecker works with World Anvil.
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Tips on How to Use the Article Scrapbook

On World Anvil, articles are the powerhouse of your worldbuilding. Each article has a scrapbook, where you can write anything you want. The scrapbook is only visible to you and your world's editors. Here are a few tips on how you can use the article scrapbook!
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How to Set Up Automatic Article Trees

You can create connections between articles to automatically generate charts that represent them. These charts are automatically generated based on specific drop-down fields in the article editor and are displayed at the bottom of the article.
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Guide to Custom Article Templates

Custom article templates are very useful if your world has many articles with a similar structure. With a custom article template, you can change the layout and default content of the default templates.
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How to Check Where an Article is Mentioned

Here's how you can check which articles contain links that point to a specific article.
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How to Password-Protect Your Articles

Protect your articles with a password to create exclusive content for those who know the secret code!
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How to Create an Article from Anywhere

Learn the basic steps to create a new article on your world.
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How to Delete an Article

Learn how to delete any of your articles forever.
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How to Embed Secrets in Your Articles

Learn how to add secret information in your articles.
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How to Embed Family Trees and Bloodlines in Your Articles

Learn how to display your family trees in your articles!
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How to Embed Diplomacy Webs into Your Articles

Here's how you can embed a diplomacy web in any article.
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How to Create Logged in & Follower-Specific Content

Encourage your readers to join your world's community with this tool!
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How to Use Article Templates

What are the different type of article templates? Here's how each template work, and the template-specific features you can use!
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Guide to the Old Version Edit Interface

Learn all about the old version of the article edit interface, with all the features it includes to power up your articles!
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How to Enable Focus Mode

Focus on your writing when working on articles with article edit focus mode!
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How to Change an Article's Author

If you have a collaborative world, use these steps to change the author of an article.
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How to Move an Article to a Different World

Here's how to move an article to a different world you own!
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How to Send World Updates to Discord Using the Webhook

Learn how to send notifications about article updates into your Discord server.
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How to Categorize an Article

Here's how to organize your articles in categories, the basic organizational units of your world.
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How to Use the Full-Width Article Footer

Article content is divided into two columns: the left one, where the main content goes, and the right one, used for complementary content. Here's how to set up the full-width footer to span both columns!
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How to Use the Visibility Toggles

With visibility toggles, you can make areas of your articles private or public at a moment's notice without even editing the article.
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How to Duplicate an Article on World Anvil

Learn how to duplicate an article to create a copy in your world.
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