Chris Reynolds

<p>The main purpose of this plugin is to provide a page to display documentation. Not a Wiki <em>per se</em>, as it’s not intented to be collaborative (although it can be), rather, it just uses Custom Post Types to separate documentation articles from the rest of your content. This plugin came as a result of my undying hatred of MediaWiki.  I know BBCode and HTML and PHP and CSS and still the wiki markup just baffles me.  I can never remember how to do the <em>simplest</em> things, like create a freaking link.  Really?  All I want to do is throw a <code><a href="..."></code> in there.  If you’re looking at this plugin, you know what I’m talking about.  When this plugin was written the WordPress plugins available for what I want to do either <em>aren’t</em> what I want to do, or don’t work with the latest version of WordPress.  Hence this plugin.</p>
<p><em>WordPress Wiki That Doesn’t Suck</em> uses custom post types.  And that’s pretty much it.  It creates a new custom post type (<code>wpwtds_article</code>) that can be accessed from the <em>Wiki != suck</em> menu it adds to your sidebar (!= is “not equal to” in coder jargon).  Wiki articles are posted with the <code>wiki</code> slug, so your URLs will look like <code>http://mydomain.com/wiki/my-cool-article</code>.</p>
<p>To display your wiki articles on a page, you can either use the included template files (in the <code>/templates</code> directory), or you can use the <code>[wpwtds]</code> shortcode that’s been added in 0.9.</p>
<p>You can see WPWTDS in action at http://museumthemes.com/wiki/ and http://eventespresso.com/support/documentation/</p>


WordPress Wiki That Doesn't Suck

Guido

<h4>About</h4>
<p>With this lightweight plugin you can create a knowledge base that contains your categories and posts.</p>
<p>Main features of the plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>Free and lightweight</li>
<li>Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor</li>
<li>Display your knowledge base with block, shortcode or widget</li>
<li>Custom post types are supported (such as WooCommerce product categories and products)</li>
<li>Customize your knowledge base with attributes</li>
<li>Documentation at WP plugin page</li>
<li>Active support from developer at WP forum</li>
</ul>
<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 make sure you already have some categories and posts.</p>
<p>Go to the editor and add the VS Knowledge Base block or the shortcode <code>[knowledgebase]</code> to a page. This will 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>2 columns in small screens</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>Customize your knowledge base with attributes.</p>
<h4>Attributes</h4>
<p>You can customize your knowledge base by adding attributes to the block, shortcode or 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>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>Disable category link: <code>category_link="false"</code></li>
<li>Display category description: <code>category_description="true"</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>In small screens max 2 colums.</p>
<p>You can disable the columns in favour of 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.

WordPress Wiki That Doesn't Suck vs VS Knowledge Base