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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.

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<p>With ThriveDesk live chat plugin provides one-on-one conversations with your customers, which means that you can address their concerns efficiently and start closing more sales.</p>
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<h3>💬 Live Chat Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Real Time visitor tracking</li>
<li>Chatbots</li>
<li>Proactive messaging</li>
<li>Offline messaging</li>
<li>Lead collection</li>
<li>Automated replies from the knowledge base</li>
<li>Contact forms</li>
<li>Links</li>
<li>File sharing</li>
<li>Zoom and Google Meet integration</li>
<li>Analytics & Insight</li>
<li>Seamless integration with other CRM</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul>
<p>Available on:</p>
<ul>
<li>IOS App</li>
<li>Android App</li>
</ul>
<h3>Helpdesk & Support Ticket Plugin for WordPress</h3>
<p>Manage all customer conversations through ThriveDesk’s Shared Inbox (aka Ticket System). Shared Inbox is where all your tickets, live chat, and queries are directed, and the team collaborates to provide a better customer support experience.</p>
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<h4>🌟 Helpdesk Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Shared Inbox</li>
<li>Workflow automation</li>
<li>Team collaboration</li>
<li>Merge conversation</li>
<li>Assignments</li>
<li>Collision Detection</li>
<li>Tagging</li>
<li>Canned replies</li>
<li>Spam filtering</li>
<li>Auto-responders</li>
<li>Auto BCC</li>
<li>Default Status Update</li>
<li>Private notes</li>
<li>Reply Undo</li>
<li>Powerful Search</li>
<li>Notifications</li>
<li>Contact history</li>
<li>Previous conversations</li>
<li>Satisfaction survey</li>
<li>Reporting</li>
<li>And much more…</li>
</ul>
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✅ Easier performance-tracking<br />
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✅ Credible reporting<br />
✅ Better integration<br />
✅ Seamless customer experience</p>
<h3>CREATE STUNNING KNOWLEDGE BASE TO SCALE CUSTOMER SUPPORT</h3>
<p>Reduce ticket inflow, avoid repetitive incident logs, facilitate self-service on the portal, and improve resolution times with a repository of articles that can help the customers find answers to their problems.</p>
<p>Knowledge Base is a self-service system that works perfectly with the Live Chat and Ticket system.</p>
<h3>WooCommerce Integration</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Easy Digital Downloads</li>
<li>Gravity Form</li>
<li>Fluent CRM</li>
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<li>WPForms</li>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
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<li>Slack</li>
<li>SureCart</li>
<li>Freemius</li>
<li>Custom Apps</li>
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<h4>📈 Reporting Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Conversations reporting</li>
<li>Company reporting</li>
<li>Happiness score</li>
<li>Leaderboard</li>
<li>Agent performance</li>
<li>Much more…</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to ThriveDesk’s external services to provide live chat, helpdesk, and knowledge base functionality. Here are the details of the external services used:</p>
<p><strong>ThriveDesk API Service:</strong><br />
– <strong>Service:</strong> ThriveDesk API (https://api.thrivedesk.com)<br />
– <strong>Vendor:</strong> ThriveDesk Inc.<br />
– <strong>Purpose:</strong> Used for managing conversations, tickets, knowledge base content, and live chat functionality<br />
– <strong>Required/Optional:</strong> Required for core plugin functionality<br />
– <strong>Data sent:</strong><br />
  – PII: Customer names, email addresses, conversation content, support ticket details<br />
  – Telemetry: Plugin settings, API usage statistics, response times<br />
– <strong>When:</strong> Data is sent when users interact with the live chat widget, create support tickets, or when administrators manage helpdesk settings<br />
– <strong>Terms of Service:</strong> https://www.thrivedesk.com/terms/<br />
– <strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> https://www.thrivedesk.com/privacy/</p>
<p><strong>ThriveDesk Application Service:</strong><br />
– <strong>Service:</strong> ThriveDesk App (https://app.thrivedesk.com)<br />
– <strong>Vendor:</strong> ThriveDesk Inc.<br />
– <strong>Purpose:</strong> Used for plugin configuration, assistant management, and accessing the main ThriveDesk dashboard<br />
– <strong>Required/Optional:</strong> Required for plugin setup and configuration<br />
– <strong>Data sent:</strong><br />
  – PII: Administrator email addresses, organization details<br />
  – Telemetry: Plugin authentication tokens, configuration settings, usage analytics<br />
– <strong>When:</strong> Data is sent during plugin setup and when accessing ThriveDesk dashboard features<br />
– <strong>Terms of Service:</strong> https://www.thrivedesk.com/terms/<br />
– <strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> https://www.thrivedesk.com/privacy/</p>
<p><strong>ThriveDesk Documentation Service:</strong><br />
– <strong>Service:</strong> ThriveDesk Knowledge Base (https://thrivedeskdocs.com)<br />
– <strong>Vendor:</strong> ThriveDesk Inc.<br />
– <strong>Purpose:</strong> Used to fetch and display knowledge base articles and documentation<br />
– <strong>Required/Optional:</strong> Optional – used only when knowledge base features are enabled<br />
– <strong>Data sent:</strong><br />
  – PII: None<br />
  – Telemetry: Search queries, article requests, page views<br />
– <strong>When:</strong> Data is sent when users search for help articles or access the knowledge base<br />
– <strong>Disable:</strong> Can be disabled by turning off knowledge base integration in plugin settings<br />
– <strong>Terms of Service:</strong> https://www.thrivedesk.com/terms/<br />
– <strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> https://www.thrivedesk.com/privacy/</p>
<p><strong>Bunny Stream Video Service:</strong><br />
– <strong>Service:</strong> Bunny Stream (https://iframe.mediadelivery.net)<br />
– <strong>Vendor:</strong> BunnyWay d.o.o.<br />
– <strong>Purpose:</strong> Used to embed promotional and tutorial videos in the plugin interface<br />
– <strong>Required/Optional:</strong> Optional – used only for displaying help videos in admin interface<br />
– <strong>Data sent:</strong><br />
  – PII: None<br />
  – Telemetry: IP address, User-Agent, Referrer URL, Video viewing timestamps, Playback analytics<br />
– <strong>When:</strong> Data is sent when the plugin admin interface loads embedded videos<br />
– <strong>Disable:</strong> Videos can be disabled by administrators and do not affect core functionality<br />
– <strong>Terms of Service:</strong> https://bunny.net/tos/<br />
– <strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> https://bunny.net/privacy/<br />
– <strong>Verified:</strong> January 2025</p>


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