Get ready for a host of helpful UI updates to improve your WA experience, and details for our online worldbuilding Summer Camp challenge… because June is PREP MONTH! ✨ New right sidebar menu The new sidebar on the right gives you access to all the account-level options, such as the Community portal, the News, the […]

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May’s here (already!), and while Adventure April ended, a new worldbuilding competition has begun! Plus, check the Worldbuilding Awards winners for an incredible dose of worldbuilding inspiration. 🗓️ May events Here’s everything going on this month! 🎒 Hitchhiker’s Guide to Your World: We challenge to write an in-world travel guide: if someone was to visit […]

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April’s here, so let’s take a look at all the development updates and community news for this month, including the return of Adventure April, our adventure writing challenge! ⚙️ World dashboard configuration Customize your world dashboard! Select which widgets you want to see and where, and you can add a custom background image too. To […]

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This article is a guest post by author Trip Galey. Trip is a writer, a doctor of the academic persuasion, and a researcher of all things pursuant to bargains, exchanges, and compacts of a faery nature. It is inadvisable to attempt to make a deal with him. He has been, in the past, a reluctant […]

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We recently released a new way to organize your articles inside your categories, and today we bring a new update! With this feature drop, you can now customize exactly what you see when you open World Anvil and access your world dashboard. Customize your Dashboard Our big update last November saw the revamp of Dashboards, […]

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It’s March, which means it’s time for Worldbuilding Con, our weekend-long online convention for Game Masters! Plus, we’ve got news about challenges, and, as usual, about upcoming developments on World Anvil too. ✨ Advanced article management When opening the Article Manager and editing a category, you’ll find a new tab called “Article Management”. There, you […]

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With today’s update, we’re upgrading the article management interface! We got a ton of feedback for improvements to the new Article Manager, so this is our new iteration based on that. What does this update add? The Article & World Manager still works the same as always, but now includes a new Article Management mode […]

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This month, we have powerful quality-of-life improvements, an awards ceremony, and we’re launching the 6th Worldbuilding Awards too! Let’s take a look at what we’ve been busy with in the past few weeks, and what’s coming in the next months. 📝 Quick article creation while writing! When using the Visual Editor, you can now create […]

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Our powerful new search is now live on World Anvil… with new features! You can now browse the content in your world from anywhere—scroll secrets, mull over maps, and trawl through your timelines—and open it up, or copy links into what you’re currently working on. What’s new in World Anvil’s search? If you’re an Alchemist, […]

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The manual save button is back on World Anvil! Throughout the years we’ve heard and read your feedback about this, and we thought that with the recent updates to the article edit interface, now was the perfect time to bring it back. After a testing round with our lovely Alchemists, here’s everything you need to […]

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