Plugin / Very Simple Knowledge Base

Description

About

This is a lightweight plugin to create a Knowledge Base, Bulletin Board, FAQ, Wiki or Link Portal.

Add the shortcode on a page or use the widget to display your categories and posts.

While adding the shortcode or the widget you can add several attributes to personalize your knowledge base.

You can also list categories and posts from a custom post type (such as “product” or “event”).

How to use

After installation create a page and add the shortcode to display your categories and posts:

• For 1 column: [knowledgebase-one]
• For 2 columns: [knowledgebase-two]
• For 3 columns: [knowledgebase-three]
• For 4 columns: [knowledgebase]

In mobile screens 2 columns (except the 1 column knowledge base).

Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the widget to display your categories and posts.

Default settings categories:

• Ascending order (A-Z)
• Empty categories are hidden
• Parent and subcategories are listed separately

Default settings posts:

• Descending order (by date)
• All posts are displayed

Shortcode attributes

You can add attributes to the 4 shortcodes mentioned above.

• Include certain categories: include="1,3,5"
• Exclude certain categories: exclude="8,10,12"
• Display empty categories too: hide_empty="0"
• Display category description: description="true"
• Change number of posts per category: posts_per_page="5"
• Display posts in ascending order: order="asc"
• Display posts by title: orderby="title"
• Display posts in random order: orderby="rand"
• Display number of posts (post count) count="true"
• Display post meta (date and author): meta="true"
• Display View All link: all_link="true"
• Change label of View All link: all_link_label="your label here"
• Change label of post without title: no_title_label="your label here"
• Change CSS class of knowledge base: class="your-class-here"

Examples:

• One attribute: [knowledgebase posts_per_page="5"]
• One attribute: [knowledgebase-two include="1,3,5"]
• Multiple attributes: [knowledgebase include="1,3,5" hide_empty="0" meta="true"]

Widget attributes

The widget supports the same attributes. You don’t have to add the main shortcode tag or the brackets.

Examples:

• One attribute: posts_per_page="5"
• Multiple attributes: include="1,3,5" hide_empty="0" meta="true"

Post tags

Besides listing posts by category you can also list posts by tag: taxonomy="post_tag"

Custom post types

You can also list categories and posts from a custom post type (such as “product” or “event”).

To list these categories and posts you should add 2 shortcode attributes: “taxonomy” and “post_type”

You can for example list WooCommerce products:

• List products: taxonomy="product_cat" post_type="product"
• List products with product category image: taxonomy="product_cat" post_type="product" woo_image="true"
• List products by tag instead of category: taxonomy="product_tag" post_type="product"

Link Portal

To display a list of website links you can install the Page Links To plugin.

While creating a post you can set a redirect to an URL (website) of your choice.

When you click the post link in the frontend of your website it will redirect you to this URL (so the post will not open).

Browser support

The knowledge base might not display properly in IE8 and older because I have used CSS selector “nth-of-type”.

Question?

Please take a look at the FAQ section.

Translation

Not included but plugin supports WordPress language packs.

More translations are very welcome!

Credits

Without the WordPress codex and help from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so: thank you!

Enjoy!