
MANUSCRIPTS IS NOW IN OPEN BETA
The following is the current workflow for Manuscripts after being tweaked a bit from the initial release.
- You can no longer publish a Manuscript…
- But you can publish Chapters (folders)
- A manuscript is published once the first chapter is set to “published“.
- Once a chapter or a manuscript is published, everyone who is following YOU will get a notification that a new chapter or manuscript has been published.
- When someone likes a part of your manuscript, you’ll get a notification.
- Follow the owner of a Manuscript from the Manuscript page.
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NOTE 1: You are no longer able to publish a “text” (scene). Instead, you will have to put it into a folder (chapter) and publish that.
NOTE 2: This WILL affect the already published manuscripts (you will have to publish your chapters individually).
Clarification: This change does not affect privacy (public/private state). It is the equivalent of the Draft/Published for articles.
…if you are looking for something really cool to listen to and probably the most awesome person that you MUST be following!
Bookmarking Manuscripts

Related Items
BBCode
[manuscriptpart:<Manuscript ID>]

Quick article save
Articles Interface III
Near the end of the month, Dimitris deployed a major update. Say goodbye to the old cluttered articles interface and discover…
- Lighter simples, cleaner interface
- Autosave
- New Focus mode
- Same page Preview
- Same page Article search and Preview
- Referenced in (find where the article is referenced in other articles)
- SO MUCH more and x16 Faster!
If you haven’t since the update, make sure you have done a hard refresh on your browser so both CSS and JS files will update.
ARTICLE TABLE OF CONTENTS Tag
- This tag automatically scans your article, identifying all headers
- It creates an indented list of the headers.
- Clicking on the header will instantly scroll you down to that header.
KNOWN ISSUES
This will not work nicely if you ALSO have the following:
- [toc]
- [articleblock]
- Relations (character/organization)
- Org charts
It will work, but it will also list the header/categories of the Global ToC so try to refrain from using both. You won‘t need it so much anyway now that you have the static navigation.
This is still in BETA, so if you find any issues please let Dimitris know at the #development-discussion channel in the Discord!
Article Word count on autosave
User Profiles v.2.1
- Follow your friends, not just their worlds!
- Comment others’ profiles
- View a much better display of worlds, characters, manuscripts
- List of your best articles (by likes and views)
- Display of your latest public work pinned at the top of your profile
- STATS: Likes (of all your articles+manuscripts as a total)
- STATS: Views (of all your articles, manuscripts, and profile) as a total
- List of all the things that you have recently liked on your profile, the people that you are following, and who follow you
There is much more to come! Dimitris also announced some cryptic advice: “Follow your friends!”
Follow Dimitris for “stress testing” reasons…
Note: The stats update every several hours, so do not stress if you are seeing 0 followers.

New API Endpoints
Here are the newest API endpoints:
GET world/{id}/images
GET image/{id}
**Manuscripts**
GET user/{id}/manuscripts
GET manuscript/{id}
GET manuscript/version/{id}
GET manuscript/version/{id}/export (Quick shortcut)
**Articles**
GET /worlds/{id}/articles – Now returns draft articles as well
GET /world/{id}/articles – Now also returns is_wip (Work in progress) and (is_draft) Draft/Published
GET /article/{id} now renders containers if the user has access to them.
WORLD ANVIL SHOWCASE PAGE
Available for everyone to see and on top of World Anvil‘s homepage!!! This page will be kept updated and kickin‘ with regular updates and additions.
We call all guild members to send your BEST work at #guild-showcase or twitter marked as “#worldanvilshowcase” (Don’t forget to mention us too!)
World Navigation Sidebar
- Table of Contents
- Maps
- Timelines from ANY page of your world.
This is available for guild members Journeyman+. All 25 of the themes also have a proper World Navigation sidebar base styling!

Community Social Features
Toggle Social Features

Private Comments
- Articles
- Profiles
- Manuscript Chapters
Private messages are visible to their authors and the owners of the world, profile, or manuscript. This can be a great avenue to give honest feedback or give secret information to your gamemasters (owners of the world).
New Character Sheets
Pathfinder 2e
- Updated Styling to fit all screens
- Minor visual changes for clarify
- Fixed issue with Crafting being calculated as WIS skill (now INT)
- Added ability to add Feats as Freeform text ( no need to add blocks for them)
- Clarified some of the descriptions on the sheets form.

Pathfinder 1e – settlement

The Burning Wheel System

UI Changes

- Less visual clutter
- Scalable to add more in the future without adding clutter
- More space friendly for mobile devices (more coming towards that soon)
- You can use the ESC key to collapse or expand the menu
- Also cute!

‘Quality of Life’ Improvements
- Link to Community pages is now visible on the sidebar for mobile and small devices.
- Turn Artemis off by pushing the ESC (escape) key.
- Global Search AND Explore search for Masters+ now also searches through:
- Sidebar Panel Top
- Sidebar Panel Bottom
- Top Sidebar
- Bottom Sidebar
- Footnotes
- Fullfooter
- When you choose a parent category for an article you can now see the parent category of that category as well.

- Zoom in and out of family trees!

Just coming back to update my D&D campaign and autosave/no refresh is HUGE feature improvement for writing articles… the amount of improvement in this update are immense. Thank you so much to the team for all the great updates.
Thank you for the kind words Wade! Hope you enjoy updating your D&D campaign even more! 🙂