Article Tutorials

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!

How to move an article to a different world

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

How to check where an article is mentioned

Here's how you can check which articles contain links that point to a specific article.

How to embed the dictionary widget from the language template

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.

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!

How to categorize an article

How to send world updates to Discord using the Webhook

Guide to the Article Advanced Edit Interface

How to change an article's author

How to enable focus mode

How to password-protect your articles

How to create an article on the fly

How to duplicate an article on World Anvil

How to Use Article Templates

How to create logged in & follower-specific content

How to embed diplomacy webs into your articles

How to embed family trees and bloodlines in your articles

How to embed secrets in your articles

How to delete an article

How to create an article