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<h4>About</h4>
<p>With this lightweight plugin you can create a knowledge base that contains your categories and posts.</p>
<p>To display your knowledge base you can use a block, a shortcode or a widget.</p>
<p>You can customize your knowledge base with attributes.</p>
<p>It’s also possible to display categories and posts from a custom post type (such as WooCommerce product categories and products).</p>
<p>With this plugin you can also create a FAQ or wiki in the same way as a knowledge base.</p>
<h4>How to use</h4>
<p>After installation add the VS Knowledge Base block or the shortcode <code>[knowledgebase]</code> to a page to display your knowledge base.</p>
<p>Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Knowledge Base widget.</p>
<p>Default settings categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>4 columns when using block or shortode</li>
<li>1 column when using widget</li>
<li>Order by name</li>
<li>Ascending order (A-Z)</li>
<li>Empty categories are hidden</li>
<li>Parent and subcategories are displayed separately</li>
</ul>
<p>Default settings posts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Order by date</li>
<li>Descending order (new to old)</li>
<li>All posts are displayed</li>
</ul>
<p>You can customize your knowledge base with attributes.</p>
<h4>Attributes</h4>
<p>You can customize your knowledge base by adding attributes to the block, the shortcode or the widget.</p>
<ul>
<li>Add custom CSS class to knowledge base: <code>class="your-class-name"</code></li>
<li>Change the number of columns: <code>columns="3"</code></li>
<li>Disable the columns: <code>columns="0"</code></li>
<li>Include certain categories: <code>include="1,3,5"</code></li>
<li>Exclude certain categories: <code>exclude="8,10,12"</code></li>
<li>Display empty categories too: <code>hide_empty="0"</code></li>
<li>Display category description: <code>category_description="true"</code></li>
<li>Change the number of posts per category: <code>posts_per_category="5"</code></li>
<li>Reverse the order of posts: <code>order="ASC"</code></li>
<li>Display posts by title: <code>orderby="title"</code></li>
<li>Display posts in random order: <code>orderby="rand"</code></li>
<li>Display post counter: <code>post_count="true"</code></li>
<li>Display post meta (date and author): <code>post_meta="true"</code></li>
<li>Display View All link: <code>view_all_link="true"</code></li>
<li>Change label of View All link: <code>view_all_link_label="your label"</code></li>
<li>Change label of post without title: <code>no_post_title_label="your label"</code></li>
<li>Change the “no categories are found” text: <code>no_categories_text="your text"</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Example: <code>[knowledgebase include="1,3,5" hide_empty="0" post_meta="true"]</code></p>
<p>When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets.</p>
<p>Example: <code>include="1,3,5" hide_empty="0" post_meta="true"</code></p>
<p>With the columns attribute you can set the number of columns between 1 and 4.</p>
<p>The knowledge base becomes 2 columns in small screens (except when number of columns is set to 1).</p>
<p>You can also disable the columns. This can be handy if you only want to use your own styling.</p>
<p>The columns attribute will be ignored when using the block or widget. Because you can set the columns via the block or widget settings.</p>
<h4>Post tags</h4>
<p>Besides displaying posts by category you can also display posts by tag: <code>taxonomy="post_tag"</code></p>
<h4>Custom post types</h4>
<p>It’s also possible to display categories and posts from a custom post type (such as WooCommerce product categories and products).</p>
<p>To display these categories and posts you should add 2 attributes: “taxonomy” and “post_type”</p>
<p>WooCommerce:</p>
<ul>
<li>Product categories and products: <code>taxonomy="product_cat" post_type="product"</code></li>
<li>Include product category image: <code>taxonomy="product_cat" post_type="product" woo_image="true"</code></li>
<li>Display by tag instead of category: <code>taxonomy="product_tag" post_type="product"</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Have a question?</h4>
<p>Please take a look at the FAQ section.</p>
<h4>Translation</h4>
<p>Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs.</p>
<p>More <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/very-simple-knowledge-base" rel="nofollow ugc">translations</a> are very welcome!</p>
<p>The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!</p>


VS Knowledge Base

With this lightweight plugin you can create a knowledge base that contains your categories and posts.

Achal Jain

IdeaBox Creations

Nirbhay Singh Rao

<p>Create powerful documentation for your products and services right in WordPress with features like <strong>Live Search</strong>, <strong>Breadcrumbs</strong>, <strong>User Feedback</strong>, Styling with Customizer, etc.</p>
<p>Whether you are building a small or large Knowledge Base, <a href="http://wpsmartdocs.com/?utm_source=repo-readme&utm_medium=smartdocslite&utm_campaign=repo-demo-link" rel="nofollow ugc">SmartDocs</a> will help you manage docs easily and help your customers find answers quickly, even in the in-depth documentation of your products and services.</p>
<p>SmartDocs <strong>keeps everything simple and minimal</strong>. You can get started with it in a few clicks without feeling lost and overwhelmed.</p>
<h3>Create Powerful Knowledge Base to EXCEL Customer Support</h3>
<p>With SmartDocs, you can easily create and organize content in an attractive and structured way. This will make it easier for your customers to find the piece of information they are looking for.</p>
<h3>Reduce Support Workload</h3>
<p>There is no doubt that well-maintained Documentation can reduce the support team’s workload tremendously, and with SmartDocs, you can achieve that in 5 simple steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install Plugin</li>
<li>Add Docs and Assign Categories to them</li>
<li>Setup basic style from the customizer</li>
<li>Tweak settings a bit to your taste and</li>
<li>Visit Docs Homepage</li>
</ol>
<p>You are done with a flawlessly working Docs page!</p>
<p>Let your customers find the answers to their questions quickly without interacting with the support representatives for known issues or queries. <em>It’s a win-win!</em> 🏆</p>
<h3>Top Features 🤘</h3>
<h3>1️⃣ FLAWLESS NAVIGATION</h3>
<p>With SmartDocs built-in templates, you can quickly set up Documentation and organize them using <em>categories</em> for users to start navigating them easily.</p>
<h3>2️⃣ POWERFUL SEARCH OPTION</h3>
<p>SmartDocs comes with a powerful search that will allow customers to navigate the doc based on the entered keywords. The search also supports other post types like posts and pages to show up in the search results. All easily adjustable via settings in one click.</p>
<h3>3️⃣ BUILT-IN-STYLING & CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS</h3>
<p>We understand the hassle of going through CSS and the painstaking time it takes to build beautiful designs. Hence, we have build styling controls right in the Native Customizer.</p>
<p>With our built-in customizer controls, you can set colors, background colors, font-sizes, etc., for built-in templates right from the customizer. Not to mention with <strong>Live Preview.</strong></p>
<h3>4️⃣ GET QUICK FEEDBACK</h3>
<p>Getting feedback from the customers is an essential part of the Documentation. SmartDocs provides built-in functionality for customers to rate docs as helpful or not helpful. This not only allows them to provide quality feedback but also helps you to understand if the content is serving the purpose or not.</p>
<h3>5️⃣ CUSTOM BREAKPOINTS</h3>
<p>Good Documentation should be accessible from every device, and SmartDocs understand it undoubtedly.</p>
<p>It is fully responsive and works perfectly on mobile, tablet, and desktop screens. You can even set custom breakpoints for your Documentation in the customizer settings if required.</p>
<h3>6️⃣ DEVELOPER FRIENDLY</h3>
<p><em>Do you like to fiddle with the code?</em><br />
We definitely do 😉 While managing Documentation for our existing plugins, we know how frustrating it can be for developers to change or modify simple things in code. Hence, we have researched and analyzed the plugins’ code design from a developer’s perspective to keep the code developer-friendly.</p>
<p><em>Rewrite, Modify, or Customize; whatever you want to do, you’ll find a way in SmartDocs to do it.</em></p>
<h3>PRODUCT BY IDEABOX  💛</h3>
<p>SmartDocs is developed and brought to you by IdeaBox Creations, the company behind many great WordPress plugins. Our motivated and customer friendly team is trusted by more than 200,000 customers worldwide.</p>
<p>We will love to see you build great Documentations & Knowledge bases with the SmartDocs plugin, and if there are any hiccups, we will be right here to help 👨‍🔧</p>
<h3>DOCUMENTATION AND SUPPORT</h3>
<ul>
<li>For Documentation and support, check out our <a href="https://wpsmartdocs.com/docs/?utm_source=repo-readme&utm_medium=smartdocslite&utm_campaign=repo-demo-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li>If you have any questions, visit our plugin’s support forum</li>
<li>For more information, visit our website at <a href="http://wpsmartdocs.com/?utm_source=repo-readme&utm_medium=smartdocslite&utm_campaign=repo-demo-link" rel="nofollow ugc">SmartDocs</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>LIKE SmartDocs? ❤</h3>
<p>We bet you do! Your appreciation is always motivating for our team.</p>
<ul>
<li>Join our Facebook Group.</li>
<li>Don’t forget to <strong>Rate us on WordPress</strong> and show your love.</li>
<li>Check out our <a href="http://wpsmartdocs.com/?utm_source=repo-readme&utm_medium=smartdocslite&utm_campaign=repo-demo-link" rel="nofollow ugc">website</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WHAT’S NEXT?</h3>
<p>If you liked SmartDocs, consider checking out our other WordPress plugins:</p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://wpfomify.com/?utm_source=repo-readme&utm_medium=smartdocslite&utm_campaign=repo-demo-link" rel="nofollow ugc">WPfomify</a></strong>: A Social Proofing tool helps in the website’s conversion by displaying recent sales and signup notifications.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://divimonk.com/?utm_source=repo-readme&utm_medium=smartdocslite&utm_campaign=repo-demo-link" rel="nofollow ugc">DiviMonk</a></strong>: A professionally designed templates library for Divi website builder with more than 250 templates.</p>


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