Template:GuestbookWidget

Be the first to share a memory.

Drop {{GuestbookWidget}} into any memorial page's Guestbook section. It works on whichever page it's placed on — no page name to fill in — by transcluding "<This page>/Guestbook" and rendering a native submission form (built by MediaWiki:Common.js) instead of linking out to a VisualEditor edit.

Important: do NOT pre-create the "PersonName/Guestbook" subpage — leave it to be created by the first real submission. The above shows a friendly placeholder instead of a redlink until then.

The visible form (name / message / a tribute-icon row / photo upload / submit) is rendered client-side by MediaWiki:Common.js into the empty .guestbook-form-widget div above, and submits via the Action API (action=edit, appendtext) directly onto this page's

"/Guestbook" subpage as a

A Visitor

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entry — the same storage format the old VisualEditor-based flow used, so this only changes how entries are submitted, not how they're stored or rendered.

Posting requires being logged in — logged-out visitors see a "log in or create an account" prompt instead of the form fields.