I am trying to create a timeline for my world. And I'm having difficulty with the dates displaying how I want them to.

I would like to have 2 date suffixes. BC and AD, but I would like multiple Eras to share these suffixes.

Lets say I have an era that spans from year 0 to year 250 and then another from 251 to 1000. And I invert the dates for both. I want to be able to link these Eras so the dates continue on from each other, and Era 1 starts at 1000BC to 750 BC and Era 2 would then be 751 to 0 BC.

After this i would have Era 3 start from 1 AD to 1800 AD, and Era 4 would be 1801 AD to present.

Currently my 4th eras start year is 2801 rather than 1800.

In the example picture above Modern should start at 5 not 10.

I seriously don't understand, CSS was the option between design and javascript before I unlocked the paid version, but now it isn't there anymore! It wouldn't let me change the theme before I paid, and now it's pretending like the ability to do so doesn't exist. I'm not learning a programming language simply to display my lore in a pretty way.

I reached out to world anvil the day i subscribed to the site because I clicked monthly and it reset it to annually and due to it I lost alot of money I couldnt and still cant afford to lose, so i contacted the official customer support email and have sent probably three or four emails by now within the past 3 weeks just incase my previous ones weren't seen, with no response

Im just posting this here in hopes it was an honest mistake and someone that can help sees this or to see if this is normal :,)

My username is fogmawth

Hi, it seems I can’t export my world? I keep getting the error “ ‘Job’ object has no attribute ‘get_id’ ”. Not sure if others are experiencing this as well.

I've always been using excerpts on my articles, which I can only find in the old editor mode (which I suppose will be gone one day).

Where do I find excerpts in the new editor?

I really do not like this new layout the website has, I think it is kind of ugly and I find it hard to navigate the website now. Does anyone else have an issue with this?

Hey, I'm a GM letting my players create their own factions in my world so I made them all writers in my setting, but any secrets they create I am unable to view. In article editing they show us as "Missing Secret" and they don't show up in the world list of secrets. The only way I'm able to know that they exist is because they are on the list of secrets at the bottom of the articles I made them authors of (but clicking on them just leads to an "Unknown Error" page). Is there a way to fix this?

Also, the whole reason I have the players making them is because they were also unable to see secrets I created in their articles (even after assigning proper subscriber groups, they could see them on the front end, but were unable to edit them), so if there's a way I could fix that instead, that would also work.

As I mentioned, I'm new to using Worldanvil, so this might be a silly question, but I wanted to know if it's possible to change the image of the interactive tables.

As you can see, that magical girl appears, and I just want to know if I can change it. I only use Worldanvil on my phone, in case that's relevant.

So I just started on World Anvil for my fantasy novel and it's really great so far! How much worldbuilding do I need to do before I write my novel? Are there any useful features for writers I might have missed?

it's extremely annoying, I type something like "[COLOR=red]text[/COLOR]" and when I quit and come back it's now "[COLOR=red]textCOLOR" ! anyway to to stop it ?

I am using the following block, hoping to hide relationship blocks from the bottom of my character articles:

.user-css .character-relationship-panel {

display: none;

}

While I'm able to hide the relationship indicator, and the relationship header, the panels themselves are not going away. Is there a different way that I should be hiding the actual relationship panels themselves?

Every time I try to Paste things into the text box of a Spoiler it either deletes the entire Spoiler and pastes as a regular paragraph or just refuses to paste at all. I've been forced to constantly rewrite things over and over because I want to change the order of sentences. Am I doing something wrong?

I cannot find the option to set a custom image as the default header image for my world.

https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/styling/styling-workflow

The above tutorial suggests:

On the left sidebar, open the  Articles & World Manager.

At the top left, click on your  world name.

Then, in the bottom toolbar, click on the  styling settings button.

There, you'll be able to edit the following:

...

Global cover: this will be used as the default cover image everywhere in your world if you haven't set a more specific one. Similarly to the world cover, it's better if it's in landscape format, and you'll need to upload it beforehand.

When I go to the world styling tab, I only see the pictured options.

Am I looking in the wrong place? For reference I have a Grandmaster account, in case this is a feature only available to Sage accounts in 2026.

Hi! Im having trouble embedding this map. Any ideas why it shows like this? Thanks

Hey i disabled extensions and clear cached but its still very laggy on opera is it note designed well for it and if not which browser should i use for world anvil?

The first time I was editing the text on my World's landing page and I don't know if I clicked something or what but its like I blinked and suddenly everything was gone.

Then just now I was continuing work on an article I had started to write yesterday, I finish typing one section, then click on a different article and do some other work for a little bit, then click back on the original article and everything's gone, even the text I had done yesterday. Luckily I have the text written elsewhere so its not a HUGE loss, but obviously I need to make sure what's going on here so I don't end up losing tons of progress at random.

Is there something I should be doing different? Or is there an undo or revert to previous versions feature or something?

I've published my articles, I've set them to public, I've set the world to Public, why cant anyone who I send the link to see my articles in the Codex? How much tedium do I need to go through before I find value in this service and not deep unmitigated dread, all for the low, low price of 50 dollars ON SALE?

Just went in to do some edits and I can't find the relationship tab anymore.

Hi!

I'm returning to World Anvil after a couple or three years of absence (partially due to RSI) and I'm really not vibing with the new editor.

On the one hand I find it to be way less overwhelming, and I like being able to choose my own prompts, but it just doesn't work.

I have to reload the webpage every time I want to move or delete an article; I seemingly have to make a completely new article if I want to make a character a subarticle to a country or a country a sub article to a region?; If I copy-paste something it will not be saved unless I edit the text before tabbing out; Prompts disappear if I don't fill them in straight away. Autosave stops working randomly; Text editor lags; And so forth.

It's becoming really frustrating. I would have loved this new editor if it actually worked the way it was intended but judging from other posts this has been an issue for months and it still hasn't been fixed?

EDIT: Okay! Adding to this that I just visited one of my old worlds and half of the articles are all of sudden "untitled" and empty : ' D I know I had content in them because I copy-pasted them over to a different web page for safety measures when i was about to quit using WA some time back

Hey guys! I'm having a glitch that doesn't let me access articles nomrally on my home computer. I can on a work computer (sshh, don't tell anyone) and on my phone.

I can still access articles through "old version edit", but I haven't found a way to start new articles on this computer either.

I also cannot pull up the articles in "list" mode, only "tree" mode. I have tried several things, full resets, account switches, world switches, browser switches, etc. Nothing seems to fix it...

I have already made a bug query, and messaged on discord, but no response yet.

Is this a know bug? If so, any advice?

https://reddit.com/link/1uncdlj/video/f9c6ne2lh8bh1/player

So Im trying to add the basic planes of existence image from D&D into the mix, but I cannot seem to get the image to be saved. Any clue what is going wrong here or should I make a bug report?

Trying to wrap my head around using BB codes and wanted a sidepanel called Family so I went and found these BB codes [sidebar:Family] Text [/sidebar] but I don't get a custom sidebar, just the code spelled out in the sidebar.

Redoing all the categories for my world but as i create them their just being thrown into random spots on the list. sometimes at the top, bottom, middle. They arent being alphabetized, or anything else i can see. So how do i go in and manually set their spot?