Athena Transition Guide

Table of Contents

Quick Start Guide Interface Compare

Old Athena

Old Article Edit

Old Category Edit

Homepage & Styling

Comments

The new Athena, or the Articles and World Manager, does most of what the old one could do and then some. The official Guide to the Articles & World Manager covers a lot of that. The problem is, if you're used to the old version, it can be hard to find all those same features in the new one, and nobody likes searching around for buttons.
The point of this guide is to help you skip past that and get to writing. The first part is what you need to know to get to work right away. The second part is a more comprehensive comparison of where various options live now. Everything here is accurate to my knowledge as of January 27.
Note: The old pages aren't going away for at least two more years (per Dimi). I still recommend trying to use it, and giving the WA dev team feedback from at the top right of the WA page.

Quick Start Guide

I just returned to WA after months away, how do I get back to writing as fast as possible?

— You, maybe

New Articles

• Use Article at the bottom of the Tree menu to create an uncategorized article, or
• Hover over an existing category or article and use to create a child article.
• New! Articles no longer refresh upon naming them.

Completing Stubs

• Use the top-left dropdown to filter to Stubs (< 50 words), or
• Use for more sorting and searching capabilities, such as finding stubs of a specific template.
• For challenge articles, use in the bottom menu to reset the create date.

General Writing

Use PROMPTS to add template-specific prompts and content sections (Sections tab on the old editor).

• Add all prompts to the current article with PROMPTS and . Unused fields turn off when you navigate away.
• The "Article Expanded Prompts" option in your Features menu toggles making all prompts visible all the time.

General Browsing

Use next to your World name to Toggle State Indicators to show icons for published and privacy, similar to the old interface. You can click these icons to toggle that state without opening the article.

• Bonus: From your Features menu, you can enable WIP indicators that will show for WIP and for Done.
• New! It's easy to accidentally click on state indicators in the article list. Be very careful around challenge time!

Finishing

Publish your article by clicking the yellow circle to turn it pink. Toggle privacy with the padlock icon. When Private, you'll see an icon to set subscriber groups.

• The Socials menu is where you'll notify followers, send to discord, and add to homepage (previously add to recent).
• To submit to a challenge, use . This is also where you'd un-submit an article.

Quick Tips

Old Edit

Access the old article edit with .

Animations

Disable the slide-out of Athena and slide-down the Notebook from your Features menu. Enable the option to Disable animations (I know).

Open in New Tab

Open most things in a new tab with middle mouse button, right click + open in new tab, or .

Stats

To see multiple article stats in a table view, use Brigid .

Troubleshooting

If something's weird, use next to your world name to refresh or hard reset.

Arranging

Drag and drop requires click and hold, and should be reliable.

Icons

Icon codes are only accessible in Old Edit.

Known* Issues

*Check bug reports for the most up-to-date information.

Extra Spaces

The new interface adds extra line breaks. Work around it by either removing line breaks in the editor or do a final save in the old edit. Report, duplicated in 1, 2, 3

New! Broken View World

Naming or renaming an article will break the View World button in the left sidebar by putting the article title in place of your World name. Report

Interface Compare

Old Athena

Left Panel

Category Menu

• Get this view by changing the dropdown to categories only
• Create a top-level category with Category (top-level category), or
• Hover over an existing category to create a sub-category with .
• To reorganize categories, click, hold, then drag. This should be more reliable than the old version was.

Type Menu

• Change the dropdown to template type and select your template, or
• Expand and open advanced

List Menu

• No longer available:
  • featured articles
• Now in the top-left dropdown:
  • recent
  • uncategorized
  • untagged
  • stub
  • storyteller seeds (now notes)
  • most liked
  • most viewed
• Now in :
  • unpublished (filter, change draft & published to draft)
  • most commented (change dropdown to list, then filter, then order by comments)
  • largest (order by word count)
• New additions:
  • most viewed categories,
  • view as,
  • more filtering options,
  • ability to filter a list more

Filter Menu

• This is where you could previously filter articles by subscriber group
• Click to have this same option along with many others

Center Article List

Recently Updated Articles

• Dropdown to recently updated, can pin it to make it your default

Category Contents

• Tree view shows all articles under that category
• Selecting a category will also show its contained articles
• Can click, hold, then drag articles to change parent and rearrange within the category

Child articles

• These are articles whose parent is another article
• In Tree view, the parent article should have to it to expand to see the child articles

Draft/published & public/private indicators

• Can click on an article to see them by the title, or
• beside your World name to toggle on in the list. Be warned that these indicators are also clickable to change those states. Makes it quick and easy to change, but could make it happen accidentally

Buttons

• Most are now under when hovering over an article or category
• This includes delete, copy mention, copy block, open in old edit, view in world, and more
• Create a new article from the +article button (uncategorized) or the button on an existing category or article (sets the existing one as the parent of the new one)

Quick article stats

• Could previously click an article to show its stats, or enable an expanded view that did so for all articles in the current view
• Now if you sort your articles by a stat, such as most liked, you'll see that value beside the article. However, there's currently no view that shows all basic stats on your articles.
• To see all such stats, you need to open an article. Word count is at the bottom, most other stats are in the socials menu.
• Otherwise, use Brigid.

Right Side Panel

Category edits

• Can toggle category public/private with state indicator or by opening the article.
• Open the category to change subscriber groups, name, content.
• New! Use on a category to copy various codes.
• New! There currently is no way to reset article ordering (alphabetizes contained articles), nor to modify Position. Categories no longer have an Old Edit button, so you need to manually browse to https://www.worldanvil.com/world/athena if you need to access these features.

Article edits

• Changing draft/published, public/private can be done with state indicators or by opening the article
• Must open the article to change name, tags, subscribers, icon, parent
• Excerpt is now in
• Notifying is now in , with add to recent now called add to homepage.
• Linear navigation (previous/next article) is in , Advanced.
• Position isn't part of the new interface (yet?), click and drag should be reliable but you may still need to rely on position, especially if you already have it set for other articles in that category. To access it, open the article in the old version

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Old Article Edit Interface

Tabs

Prompts and Sections

• All available from PROMPTS
• Your preference to expand all prompts by default has carried over to the new interface. If you previously had that enabled, all prompts will be added to your articles by default.
• To change this setting, go to your features menu
• If you disable this, you can always add all prompts to a specific article using PROMPTS and .
• With auto-expand disabled, any unused prompts are automatically removed when you navigate away.
• There currently is no way to set a default set of prompts or sections you always want enabled. Something like it may be added.

Design tab

• CSS, classes, excerpt, mouseover in
• Cover image is set by clicking on it up top, by the article title.
• SEO not currently available.

Navigation

• Parent article/category set by clicking by the article title.
• Linear navigation is in , Advanced
• Position isn't currently available.

Preferences

• Available in .

Secrets

• Articles & Secrets option is below the main content text box.

Right Side Panel

Submit to a Challenge

• Use to submit to, unsubmit from, or check requirements to submit to an ongoing challenge.
• This is also where you can now reset the article creation date for stubs (articles under 50 words).

BBcode reference

• When Euclid is your text editor, you can now access the bbcode formatting guide from in the bottom bar.

Special actions

• Change author, move to another world, in , Advanced
• Export in
• ??? Unsure if there's a way to apply a custom template. (Do you know? Share in the comments!)

Metadata

• Copy links: menus at the top right, bottom, or in the article list.
• Word count: Viewable at the bottom left with last saved date
• Tags, template, category, visibility: top of the article edit page
• World, author, create date:
• Last update date: , also the time since last saved at the bottom left (see above bug note)
• Favorites, comments:
• Publication Date, Last Notification Date: ??? Unsure if this is available. (Do you know? Share in the comments!)

Other

• Storyteller seeds (now called Notes) and related statblocks are under advanced options below the main content area.
• Not currently available:
  • scrapbook, the notebook might be meant to replace this
  • referenced in, this is the option to see all other articles from this world that reference your current one
  • SEO settings
  • Template-specific sections like Relationships for characters and Diplomacy for organizations

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New! Old Category Edit

Unlike the old article edit, we don't have easy access to the old category edit. In order to access it, you need to manually browse to old Athena at https://www.worldanvil.com/world/athena.

Tabs

Basic Details

• Name, icon, and parent category are set at the top of the category edit page.
• Excerpt and article redirect are in Setting, in the bottom menu.

Content

• Description and all custom content fields are visible as soon as you open the category.

Design

• All design (arranging and hiding sections) is now done with icons on the various content sections.
• You can also hide and unhide sections from in the bottom menu.

Display

• Visibility settings (display as a bookcover on the homepage and display the title) are now in the menu under Visibility.
• Set the category cover image by clicking on it behind the title at the top of the category edit page.
• Book-style cover and default article cover are now under . Addition CSS classes is just below them.

Access

• Privacy and subscriber groups are now handled with the buttons next to the article title.

Right Side Panel

Category Presentation Snippets

• You can copy the category link and category book widget from either at the top right of the category page, the left side of the bottom toolbar, or by hovering over the category in the list on the left.
• The category TOC and category link with custom title are accessed via the mention system (at least it is on Euclid, I'm assuming it's the same on Plutarch).

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Homepage & Styling

I can't access the old world configuration and world styling menus to do a proper comparison, so this part will be less specific than the others.

Homepage

• To edit general content on your homepage, open Athena and select your World from the articles list. All changes should auto-save, same as an article would.
• To edit subtitle and credits, open Settings from the bottom bar and scroll down to Advanced
• Widgets can be rearranged or turned off from the main page, and toggled from the Settings menu
• Most World settings are now here, including social media and privacy settings.
• Global Content, such as the copyright footer, is still in World Configuration.
  • Go to Advanced Settings will take you to World Configuration.
  • You can also still access it from the left sidebar, followed by

Styling

• Whitelabeling, World cover, global cover, and page background are now in the menu when editing your homepage.
• Theme, custom CSS, Bootstrap, and other options are still in the legacy World Styling Menu.
  • Similar to before, Go to Advanced Settings from the Styling menu will take you to the legacy one.
  • You can also still access World Styling from the left sidebar, followed by