14 Best WordPress Wiki Plugins Compared - 2024

The RDP Wiki Embed WordPress plugin is the first free plugin of our WordPress Wiki plugins list. How it works is that this plugin will take content from any MediaWiki website and then embed it into your pages and posts. The RDP Wiki Embed plugin can also look for all the link to various wiki sites listed in the security section.

This will then force the “content on the current page to be replaced with the content that was found at the wiki website when the link is clicked”. You site visitors will also be able to read wiki content without leaving your WP site. In order to embed the wiki code on your site you will have to use the simple shortcode this plugin comes with.

Next up we have the Yada Wiki plugin. Yada Wiki will provide you with things like: a wiki post type, custom tags and categories, a table of contents option and an index. This plugin comes with two easy to use shortcode buttons that are on the editor toolbar this will allow you to easily generate the shortcodes by clicking the button instead of having to remember it and its values.

The two different button of the Yada Wiki plugin are the Add Wiki Link button and the Add Wiki Listing Button. When you click the first button a popup opens where you will be able to type the title of the wiki page you are linking to or you can enter the link instead. With the other button, it will give you three different options for adding some collected output. There is a sidebar widget as well that has the Yada Wiki widget that shows the TOC page and a list of different article titles for a specific category in the sidebar.

You can also check out this video for more info.

We now have the KnB Lite wiki plugin. This is the free version of the KnB plugin that was mentioned earlier on our list. This is a knowledge base and FAQ plugin that will give you control of your knowledge base items. You will be able to show categories and display it on up to four columns on any part of your WordPress site.

Just like the paid version, this one is responsive as well so your content will look great no matter what kind of device your user is using to access your site. And it is cross browser compatible as well so it will work on most popular web browsers such as: Chrome, Safari and Firefox. With the KnB Lite plugin you will have the ability to create shortcode by using the powerful shortcode generator that comes with this plugin.

Other Features of KnB Lite Include:

• Post Format icon support
• You can customize the display to match your current theme
• Search form

We have come to the tenth of our WordPress Wiki plugins with another free option, the WelcomeWiki Lite plugin. With this plugin you will have the ability to embed a complete MediaWiki page or a part of a MediaWiki page into your WordPress, and even non-WordPress, site. This plugin can embed various content from any pages that follow MediaWiki protocols including both Wikipedia and Wikivoyage.

The WelcomeWiki Lite plugin is implemented by using one of two different shorcodes. The WelcomeWiki Lite Form shorcode can also be used in either a post or a page “to build a web form based manifestation of internal operations”. The web form can generate a generic js script which can embed into any web page regardless of its framework.

The WP KnowledgeBase plugin is an easy to use plugin that can help you build a knowledgebase on your website. It is also super easy to customize and can work with any WP theme. This plugin has a fully responsive design so this plugin will be able to format itself to fit any size screen no matter how big or small it may be.

There is a super handy drag and drop element which will make ordering your articles and categories much easier than you could have ever imagined. The WP Knowledgebase plugin is available in a wide variety of languages such as: Dutch, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, different varieties of Spanish, and much more. It can also work with most major web browsers like: Safari, Firefox and Chrome.

Other Features of the WP KnowledgeBase Plugin Are:

• Editable slug
• Integrated breadcrumb
• Various sidebar widgets
• Customize your catalog presentation

The Tag Wiki WordPress plugin will allow you to add a different wiki page for each tag that you have on your website. The Tag Wiki plugin has its own URL, content and it even has its own customizable template which is great for those of you who like to customize every element and detail on your website.  The wiki page for each tag can be very helpful to your visitors because you can use it to write overviews of the topic, or give links to related tags or write summaries about the tag.

For example, if you have a travel blog and have a section for Best Beaches and then you might have tags for different beaches around the world and you can share articles for each beach under this general category of Best Beaches. There is also a shortcode to make it easier ‘to insert wiki links to your tags from anywhere on your site’.

The WordPress Wiki Encyclopedia plugin is a fantastic plugin that is not just for creating an encyclopedia but it is also a glossary, wiki, and dictionary plugin so you can create and manage a knowledge base to combine with your WordPress site. This plugin is completely translatable and comes with a .pot file so you can translate your content.

There is also support for the WPML plugin to make your site multilingual. A cool perk of this wiki plugin is that each glossary gives search engines more content which will give better rankings for you. This could help draw more people to your site and increase your traffic.

Other Features of the Encyclopedia WordPress Plugin Are:

• Intuitive interface
• Automatic association of related items
• SEO conform URL structure for all kinds of pages
• Supports item comments