User blog:William Leonard/How to use the EpList template! (TUTORIAL)

EpList is a cool template that allows you to make a sweet layout for your fanon series episodes. Examples of articles that use Eplist templates are Sponged Together, The New Adventures of the IJLSA, and the List of Episodes page.

However, it can be difficult to set one up if you're not sure how it's done. Simply adding an EpList template to your article won't work - you need to add some other stuff to get your episode page to work.

That's where this comes in! This is a tutorial on how to get your EpList template set up, which also gives info on what each part of the template does, and even gives you ways to customize it!

So without further ado, let's jump into it!

SETTING IT UP
So if you just add an EpList template to your article on its own, you'll notice that it... well... doesn't look nice. That's because you haven't set up a layout for it yet.

That's where the wikitable comes in! This provides the meat to go onto the bones of your EpList template. To get it set up, simply paste this code into your document:

What does this stuff mean? Well to put it simply, it creates a table layout that spans the width of the page, adds a small border to each section, includes headings for each section ("Title Card", "#", "Title", and "Airdate" - but you can change these titles if you so desire), and colours the whole thing white (#ffffff). You can change the colours of each section however you like! But you'll need to get the hex colour code for the one you want to use (color-hex.com is a great site for this) and paste that in place of the '#ffffff' code.

Now that your layout's all set up, let's continue!

THE EPLIST TEMPLATE
This section will go through how the EpList template works, and how to set it up.

Let's take the first episode of Sponged Together's EpList template as an example!

The entire template is enclosed in ' ' tags, which tell Wikia that it's a template.

Each entry in the template is preceded with a ' ' sign. We'll go through what each entry means.


 * Card - This is where your title card goes! You'll need to upload it to Wikia first, and then paste the file name (including extension) into the Card entry. (If your episode doesn't have a title card, you can use 'none.jpg', a placeholder title card.)


 * Prod - This is the episode number; it goes underneath the '#' section of the layout.


 * Name - Your episode name goes here! This entry is set up so that anything you type here is automatically turned into a link, which you can use to create an article for the episode itself.


 * Date - The date your episode was written/released. This goes under the 'Airdate' section of the layout.


 * Desc - Here, you type in a description of your episode! It can be as long as you like, although it's best to just write a short synopsis of your episode here, and write the full plot in the episode's own article.

Each EpList template covers a single episode. To make a whole season, you'll need to paste the EpList template over and over again for each episode.

When you have enough episodes, type in ' ' to close the template. You're done!

EXAMPLE
This is an example of how a finished EpList template will look. Here, I've made a simple EpList template for a five-episode season.

This is how it will look as a published article:



That's all! I hope this has helped you get a bit more of a grip on how the EpList template works, and how to customise it to your liking.

Here's the basic code for the EpList template so you can make your episodes quickly!

Happy writing!

— William Leonard. 12:19, November 15, 2015 (UTC)

Episode 3 written by Vickers Vilbert. Originally episode 810 of SpongeBob's Greatest Adventures.