User:ThatIsAPirate/Classic Editor Guide 1

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Classic Editor is another way of editing on FANDOM. It provides a whole new interface and can be a bit confusing at first. That’s why I’ve provided everyone with a guide on how to use Classic Editor.

Many FANDOM users prefer Visual Editor. This usually depends on what wiki you make your first FANDOM edits on. There are few wikis that will have Classic Editor as their main editor, instead of Visual. Note that Classic and Source are basically the same thing, though Classic is a bit more advanced.

To use Classic Editor, you can either set your preferences (underneath your profile picture), or you can follow these steps:
 * 1) Click on the arrow next to the the “Edit” button.
 * 2) This will take you to a drop-down menu. Select Classic Editor.
 * 3) Bam! You are greeted with a whole new way of editing.

Off the bat, you’ll see that this is nothing like the default Visual Editor. The Visual Editor shows you what the page looks like as you’re typing. The Classic Editor will not. Instead, everything is words and symbols. Notice, images will not appear when editing on Classic Editor.

Another difference is that, when clicking “Publish,” you will not be greeted with a Summary box. Instead, the Summary box will be near the “Publish” button. You can also preview what your page will look like on different platforms.

This Guide will be showing you how you can use Classic Editor to your advantage!

Headers
To use a header, simply type two equal signs on either side of your desired header text. Headers are used to divide pages into sections and make it more organized. Currently, you are reading the “Headers” section. To make a header, do this: == Headers == You will get what you see above.

Example #1
Let’s begin with learning how to use links. To use a link, you must first know the page you are linking too. For this example, I’ll be linking to the Black Knight Garridan page. To link a page, add two brackets around the page name you are linking, like this: Black Knight Garridan This will give me this: Black Knight Garridan.

Example #2
To change what a link appears on a page, add a “|” directly in between the name of the page and the second set of brackets. For example, Garridan will become this: Garridan. Note: the link will STILL take me to the Black Knight Garridan page, despite being seen on the page as “Garridan.”

Example #3
If you need to link something to a specific section of a page, add a “#” before the name. Let’s say I want to link to the Files section of this blog. Type to do so. Make sure that your page has a header though, otherwise it won’t work. Header links also work with other pages too. If I want to link to the Trivia section of the Winterfest page, add the page name before the “#” like this: Winterfest You will get this: Winterfest.

Example #4
You can combine this with the second example of links we did above to get this: Trivia of the Winterfest Page. Here is the code for that: Trivia of the Winterfest Page

Example #5
The examples above only work if you know a page inside the wiki. If you want to use a link from outside of FANDOM, use only ONE bracket instead of two. Copy and paste the link inside between the two brackets (in this example, I’ll be using the Official Fortnite Home Page), add a space, and type what you want to see, like so: Click Here! You will end up with this: Click Here!

Files
Files work simultaneously with Links. Just like links, you need two brackets. Put the name of the file in between the brackets, and add “File:” after the first set, like so: You can use the “|” symbol again to change certain aspects about your image. To change the size, do this: You can swap out the “100” for whatever size you want your image to be. If you’d like, add another | and write center, left, or right to change where the image appears on the screen. For example, to get a 100px image of Jules in the middle, I would do to get

You can even link an image by adding “|link=Jules.” Than, when you click on the image, it’ll take you to the Jules page. Feel free to try it with the image above!

Text
To get bold text, add  around the text you want bold, like this: Bold Text to get Bold Text'''. This can be particularly useful when you’re introducing the name of the topic for the first time in a page, such as the Ollie page.

Similarly, you can use two apostrophes instead of three to italicize your text.

Below are some more neat techniques:


 * You can underline text by adding a at the beginning and a at the end of your text.
 * You can strikethrough text, which adds a line over the text, by replacing the ”u” from above with an “s”.
 * To get a coded text, add at the end. This will give you a.

Font Colors
You can change the color of your text by adding this code:  Replace “TEXT HERE” with whatever text you want. For this scenario, my text will be “Fortnite.” After using said code, you will end up with this: Fortnite. To change the color of the font, replace red with the color of the font you want. Below is a list of some colors you could use:
 * Orange
 * Yellow
 * Lime
 * Green
 * Blue
 * Cyan
 * Purple
 * Pink
 * Red
 * Crimson
 * Black
 * White
 * Azure

Those are only a small amount of what you can use. You can add different beginnings to the colors to get different shades and variants, such as DodgerBlue or IndianRed. If you know the Hex code for an unnamed color, feel free replace the color with the code. For example, this code: this text will give me this text. Use this for more colors!