Steve Grunwell

Van Patten Media

<p>It’s common practice for digital agencies to build a WordPress site/theme then simply hand it off to the client for day-to-day updating. The developers work hard to strike a balance between replicating the designer’s vision and making the theme easy for the client to use. As the design becomes more complex the developer faces questions: Will the client remember to wrap this in a <code><blockquote></code>? Can we count on the content manager remembering to add <code>class="btn"</code> to that link?</p>
<p>It can be equally frustrating from the client side. You don’t want to deal with learning HTML but you want your content to look just as well formatted as the stuff the agency put in at launch. The agency sent over a formatting/style guide but it never seems to be around when you need it.</p>
<p>WP Client Reference attempts to solve these problems by embedding client documentation directly into WordPress. Now agencies can include style guides, tutorials, FAQs, and more without worrying about content managers on the client side not knowing how to format that complicated call-to-action. It’s also useful for any type of team to keep track of information (with versioning) right within WordPress.</p>
<h3>Special Thanks</h3>
<p>Thank you to duckgoesoink for catching the Knowledgebase/User conflict fixed in 0.41.</p>


WP Client Reference

Create a reference guide for clients right in the WordPress administration area.

Arun Basil Lal

<p>Easy Curated Lists plugin lets you easily display a hand-selected list of posts, pages, products or any post type using a shortcode.</p>
<p>To create a curated list, simply grab the ID’s of the posts, pages or products and then use the shortcode <strong>[easycuratedlists]</strong> in the following format.</p>
<pre><code>[easycuratedlists id='1,12,25']
</code></pre>
<p>You can also optionally specify <code>h2</code> or <code>h3</code> title for your list by adding it to the shortcode.</p>
<pre><code>[easycuratedlists id='1,12,25' h2='My Curated List']
</code></pre>
<h3>Use cases for Easy Curated Lists</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create a list of posts, pages or products.</li>
<li>Add related posts in between articles.</li>
<li>Create a knowledge base / documentation.</li>
<li>Create an article series that is meant to be read in order.</li>
<li>Create a getting started page with links to popular articles for new readers of your website.</li>
<li>Create a list of articles to display in a widget on the sidebar or footer.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Easy Curated Lists Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Effortless to use with zero configuration. Just provide the list of ID’s and optional heading. </li>
<li>Minimal overhead for your server. </li>
<li>Does not write to the database. Clean install and uninstall. </li>
<li>Should be compatible with most page builders and themes. </li>
<li>Mix and match posts, pages, products or any other post type in a single list. </li>
</ul>
<p>I am excited to know how you are using Easy Curated Lists. Please let me know through the forums.</p>
<h3>Dev Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>The generated list is an unordered HTML list bounded by <code>ul</code> tag.</li>
<li>A class <code>easycuratedlists</code> is added to the list. You can use this to style your curated lists. </li>
<li>GitHub repository: <a href="https://github.com/arunbasillal/easy-curated-lists" rel="nofollow ugc">arunbasillal/easy-curated-lists</a></li>
</ul>


Easy Curated Lists

Display a curated list of posts, pages, products, or any post type using a shortcode.

WP Client Reference vs Easy Curated Lists