Wiki Embed lets you embed mediawiki pages in to your site, sites like Wikipedia
As of April 2026, Wiki Embed is a WordPress wiki plugin with 100 active installations and a 3.8/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Top alternative: BuddyPress Docs.
This plugin will pull content from any Media Wiki website (Such as wikipedia.org).
It strips and reformats the content, allowing you to supply some arguments to dictate how this works.
How does it work?
On your WordPress page or post. You embed a shortcode, something like
[wiki-embed url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress' tabs no-contents no-infobox ]
Once you save the page you will have the content of the wiki embed into you page. Kind of like a youtube video.
Only the page will look like as if it is part of your site. Any changes that are made on the wiki will be reflected on your site, once the cache has expired and a new version of the page is requested from the wiki.
Why would you want to do that?
You can build a better navigation structure to your site, while crowd sourcing t…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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