HTML WARDen (a wiki)

Page started: 2025-06-09
Page published: 2025-06-12
Updated: 2025-07-18
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HTML WARDen is a PHP wiki system. It uses HTML as the storage format.

Here’s the source repo.

Highlights:

Scroll past the screenshot below for my "making of" HTML WARDen article series, The Wiki Weekend (and beyond!!!)

screenshot of the htmlwarden split-screen editing interface

The Wiki Weekend …​and beyond!

This was a weekend project. Here’s my write-up of the whole project with ideas, false-turns, screenshots, and even some live code demos!

tiny display of the files in the repo

If you read all of that, you’ll know everything you need to build your own wiki system!

HTML WARDen is named after Ward Cunningham (wikipedia.org) creator of the original WikiWikiWeb (wikipedia.org).