Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-25041755-20140612084534/@comment-4018164-20140612092105

In a nutshell, to create a template, create a new page that its title starts with Template:. For instance: Template:Welcome In order to use that tempalte (on this example, Template:Welcome, add to a page the template's name (without the Template: at the beginning) wrapped with double curly brackets, like this: Then whatever text was added to your template will also appear on that page.

You can also add parameters to a template- parts that can be modified when used on other pages. For example: Hello, and welcome to the wiki!

I am, and feel free to contact me if you're looking for some help. The parameter is the number wrapped with triple curly brackets. In order to set a text instead of it, add the template to the page in the following way: Which results (i've added a border so it looks clearer): Hello Harry Potter, and welcome to the wiki!

I am Ryunik, and feel free to contact me if you're looking for some help. The first parameter is replaced with the first text after the pipe sign after the template's name when used on a page- on this case, the first text was Harry Potter, so the  will be replaced with it.

After the second pipe sign there is a text that will replace the second parameter, and so on.

Another option is to specify parameters by names, which is done very similarly: Hello, and welcome to the wiki!

I am, and feel free to contact me if you're looking for some help. And to get the same result as the previous example, it should be used like this:

At last, if you want to have a parameter, but if the page that uses it doesn't have text to replace it, you can also define a "default" value. This is an example: Today is very ! If you specify a parameter like this: The text would say Today is very hot!. But if no parameter is specified, like this: The result would be Today is very cold!, because the word "cold" is used as the default value of the parameter (follows it by a pipe sign).

Do you talk about Special:Promote? If so, click the "Admin" link at bottom wiki bar (if you're an admin on that certain wiki) and press the Promote button at the top (with a star icon). Here you can specify: When you're done, hit "Publish". If someone goes to Wikia's home page, and your wiki is among one of the random wikis' icons, pressing its icon would display the data that you've inserted in Special:Promote.
 * A description about your wiki (under What's your wiki about?).
 * A headline for your description (under Headline).
 * An image (which will be displayed on the left of the description).
 * Some more images (which can be viewed as a slideshow).

By section, do you talk about a headline like: == Heading == Or a homepage section, kinda like this one?