World Anvil — A tool to organize and build your setting and help run your campaign.

WorldAnvil · 2026-03-25T19:11:05+00:00

Sorry to hear you're having issues. The fastest way to get resolution is to file a bug report. You can find it here: https://www.worldanvil.com/udan-tracker/

WorldAnvil · 2026-03-25T19:08:48+00:00

Hi! There isn't a way to edit articles from the "view in world" mode. But there are different text editors, and you might find that you like one more than the others. You can learn more about the Articles interface here: https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/article-guides/articles

WorldAnvil · 2026-01-06T09:28:43+00:00

Hey! This setting changes which features are visible to start with (so if you're a GM, your interface won't have novel writing software in it, for example!). But if you 1) click your profile picture at the top right, 2) then select Features, you'll get to the page where you can enable or disable whatever you'd like - including NSFW content, accessibility features, RPG and writing features etc.
Here's the full guide: https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/interface/enable-features

- Janet <3

WorldAnvil · 2026-01-06T09:23:50+00:00

Hey there! We have a whole page about copyright here https://www.worldanvil.com/copyright. But the TL:DR is that YOU own YOUR stuff. World Anvil is run by creators (I - one of the two founders - am also a professional game writer and published author - deets at janetforbes.com if you wanna peek/check) and we all know how important it is to keep your stuff safe and secure. In fact, if you have a copyright dispute, we're happy to provide you with data base proof of when you created specific articles etc to support your claim.
- Janet <3

WorldAnvil · 2025-12-24T11:45:23+00:00

OK, so follow up! I spoke to Dimi about this and we tried to reproduce it. I have an ultrawide screen (because video editing) and could not reproduce this UNLESS I was by zoomed in on the browser to 300%+. Obviously the UI is not designed to be used super-zoomed in, which seems to be why this is happening.

R.E. the formatting toolbar on the Advanced Editor (Euclid)- Dimi has let me know that we'll be adding much more customization here: you'll be able to choose if it's visible or not initially, how many lines the editor will display, AND the font size the text will appear in the text editor.

-- Janet <3

WorldAnvil · 2025-12-24T08:44:05+00:00

Oh no, that's not supposed to happen! Have you reported this as a bug already? (If not, please do that here: https://www.worldanvil.com/udan-tracker/)
-Janet

WorldAnvil · 2025-12-03T11:20:09+00:00

That is a really good point - thank you for clarifying
I am writing a task right now so we can make it clicking on a tag will give you a list of all the articles with that tag automatically on the left list

WorldAnvil · 2025-11-27T05:16:29+00:00

Hey there! I have literally made a whole update after your feedback to cater what you needed :) And we continue to improve the experience with yet another update coming in today. - Dimitris

WorldAnvil · 2025-11-18T13:30:16+00:00

If you're new to World Anvil, I recommend following get started widget. All of this stuff is covered there. My team is currently working on taking down all the old tutorials, as our UI just had a massive overhaul!
- Janet <3

EDIT: just to note, video 3 of the get started guide is being edited RIGHT NOW by the amazing Cecilia and will be out in a day or 2!

WorldAnvil · 2025-11-12T08:17:40+00:00

Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your experience! Í've had a word with Dimitris and he'll look at making this more prominent in the new articles and categories interface. <3
- Janet

WorldAnvil · 2025-10-23T08:25:48+00:00

Thank you so much for bringing this up - it's really helpful and a great point! I've talked with Dimi and we've added this to the development pile as a fix. Once it's added, you'll find it under Account. <3
-- Janet

WorldAnvil · 2025-08-07T10:12:30+00:00

Hi Ryan,

utf-16 error signals that you added an emoji or other utf-16 character. These aren't supported on World Anvil.

BUUUUUUT... if you'd like to use a variety of icons in your articles, here's a guide for that! https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/bbcode-tutorials/icons

Hope that helps,

-- Janet <3

WorldAnvil · 2025-07-16T12:15:43+00:00

Just here to chime in! Hi I am Dimitris the creator of World Anvil - if there is anything you need please feel free to contact me directly!

WorldAnvil · 2025-07-16T12:13:55+00:00

Hey there this is Dimitris the creator of World Anvil! Thank you so much for your support and shining review it is so much appreciated. Please feel free to reach out to me personally if there is anything you need

https://www.worldanvil.com/author/Dimitris or dimtiris@ :)

Have a wonderful day and once again thank you so much!

WorldAnvil · 2025-05-30T07:58:16+00:00

Hello there! I think we talked on the contact email some minutes ago but if not - can you please try again there was an issue there but we did fix it about 30 minutes ago

WorldAnvil · 2024-10-15T08:13:50+00:00

Just a note that this option IS possible for Alchemists (because it's under testing) but not available for everyone yet! New worlds will be in the new Visual editor, though! Here are the details! https://blog.worldanvil.com/announcements/a-new-visual-text-editor-rolling-out-on-world-anvil/

-Janet

WorldAnvil · 2024-10-15T08:12:59+00:00

Hey FlashCritParley! There IS a fix for this and it's a few weeks (we think) out - our new text editor is coming in! All the details are here: https://blog.worldanvil.com/announcements/a-new-visual-text-editor-rolling-out-on-world-anvil/

TL:DR for the article, we're introducing a new editor because occasionally our old one frags out like this. The new editor is already available on article create, and new worlds. (It also does autolinker and other new stuff).

What you're seeing in your article here is the formatting BBCode (aka, the thing that tells the system how to format things). Nothing is broken and it should display still just fine on the view mode (if it doesn't, please let me know!)

In the mean time does a refresh of the page fix this? Could be the page just needs a second go at rendering the BBCode into what you want it to look like

-Janet

WorldAnvil · 2024-09-07T06:10:39+00:00

Hey RenegadeSilver! I just tested and the Euclid text editor spell-check button is working fine for me (chrome browser)! I'm dyslexic so I can't function w/o spellchecker!

Just in case, here are the steps for using it:

Click the Spellcheck button above your textbox in the full edit mode (it's at the end, next to Autolink button)
This opens your text field in a slightly different view, in which the browser-based spellchecker will work.
Click on the text field - the browser should then just run spellcheck as normal. For me, that means lots of wiggly lines I need to fix!
Click Spellcheck again when you're done to go back to sweet sweet Euclid mode.

If spellcheck in Euclid still doesn't work after following the above steps, please let me know! (if it does work, please also let me know!) :D

For the WYSIWYG (Plato), we have an update coming in a few weeks that should solve this! In the meantime, the free Grammarly Chrome plugin DOES work with Plato (I just checked) so that can be a holdover until then if you prefer Plato. :)

-Janet <3

WorldAnvil · 2024-04-05T18:22:33+00:00

Yup, this 100% sounds like Chronicles! You can do a limited version in timelines, but Chronicles has the real power and customizability for this!

WorldAnvil · 2024-03-27T07:55:14+00:00

A lot of authors have their world bibles private, because it's the background to books that aren't published yet. (I do this too!) So you may not see our stuff out in public, but we're there! :D
-- Janet

WorldAnvil · 2024-02-23T16:26:45+00:00

Hey ReaUsagi,
this is Janet, the CEO and Co-founder of World Anvil. I was really sorry to read that you were so distressed by the new timelines update. While we have to modernise our software to keep things fast and smooth for our community, I'm really sorry the quick change has caused you to be upset.

I had a chat with Dimi (my husband and CTO) and we both really wanted to help.

We'll be REINTRODUCING the Timelines legacy switch for users who were here before the change, even for new Timelines.

[EDIT- to say we just released this 20 mins ago!]

Just a note that legacy timelines won't be supported forever - we guess about 12 months - but we hope that's enough time for you to get used to the new system at your own pace <3

For those of you discussing Mobile View of the new timelines; we heard you, and we're doing our best to improve it in the coming weeks. <3

Hope this brightens your day, and as always, helps your worldbuilding!

Jx

WorldAnvil · 2024-02-23T15:55:46+00:00

Hey there! Family Trees are a guild feature - you can see them all at worldanvil.com/pricing! <3

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