GD Knowledge Base
The knowledge base plugin you have been waiting for
Complete knowledge base system supporting all themes, with different content types, FAQ, products, live search, feedbacks and ratings, built-in analytics and more.
Current release
First released
8 years, 3 months agoSystem Requirements
Optional
Multisite
Individual network websitesThe Knowledge Base
Build your documentation using articles, user guides, faq, references, connect them to products and taxonomies terms for better content organization
The Content
Organize your documentation into longer-form user guides, articles (general tutorials and posts) and references (developers related content).
FAQ
For providing users with quick help based on questions and short answers, the plugin provides very popular Frequently Asked Questions content type.
Products
If you have multiple products you need to provide a knowledge base for, the plugin allows you to define products, and assign content to products.
Attachments
Add one or more files to any knowledgebase post, and they will be listed at the end of post content and available for download.
Classification
The plugin includes several taxonomies for better organization and filtering of articles, user guides, faq, references and knowledge base products.
Custom Permalinks
The plugin includes a powerful and unique system of customizable permalinks for logical filtering of content based on the taxonomy terms and products.
Additional features
Very useful set features for enhancing the user experience and interaction to help and help you make the knowledge base better, to help you save support time
Addons Architecture
The plugin has addons architecture built-in to allow you to expand the plugin using additional and optional (free and premium) addons.
Dashboard
The plugin has a dashboard showing an overview of all the content types and products with options for quick navigation.
Live Search
Search box using AJAX to get instant results to any query, with optional filters to include or exclude content types and bbPress forum content.
FAQPage Rich Snippet
The plugin has full support for Google Rich Snippet FAQPage, and it automatically generates it for all the FAQ entries.
Various Meta Boxes
The plugin adds several metabox for each knowledge base content post or product with a lot of additional settings you can control for the content.
RTL Styling Support
The plugin has clean and simple styling all around, with the support for Right to Left languages through extra CSS file.
Auto Table of Contents
The plugin automatically generates the Table of Contents list by detecting headings in the content to navigate the post’s content quickly.
Content Analytics
Track content views, ratings, feedback comments, and search queries to get statistical data on how your users use the knowledge base.
Import posts into KB
The plugin has an import tool that can copy existing posts you might have from other post types into the desired content type.
Blocks, Shortcodes, and Widgets
The plugin has a wide array of blocks, shortcodes, and widgets to integrate into every aspect of WordPress.
11 Blocks
Blocks are taking over from both shortcodes and widgets, and GD Knowledge Base Pro has many blocks to replace most of it’s shortcodes and widgets.
21 Shortcodes
An easy way to add some extra features (notes, table of contents), to embed content anywhere, with support for visual editing via Shortcake UI plugin.
11 Widgets
Widgets can add live search form, TOC, quick links, filtered list of all posts and products, related posts and products, and taxonomy terms.
WordPress Integration
The plugin is made to work with all WordPress themes, and it provides basic styling and templates to create a consistent visual presentation for all plugin elements.
Theme Compatibility
The plugin has a theme compatibility system that makes it possible for this plugin to work with any WordPress theme without any theme modification.
Fully Responsive
Default styling includes the simple responsive grid used by default plugin templates to provide full responsive support to the knowledge base.
Fully Customizable
The plugin uses templates to display data, and all templates can be replaced through the theme to allow you maximum flexibility for customization.
bbPress Integration
The plugin is compatible with bbPress for assigning support forums to knowledge base products and integration into the topic submit form.
Topic form Search
The plugin can add a live search form to the new topic form, allowing your users to search first for the answer before opening a new topic in the forum.
Product to Support Forum
You can select one bbPress forum for each product, which will be linked as a ‘Support Forum’ from all product pages, archives, or widgets.
Related Product Widget
If the support forum is linked to the product, when browsing that forum or its topics, you can use a related product widget to link to the product.
Content Feedback
Get feedback about the content from your users, including the option to contact users back about the feedback to improve the content.
Content feedback
Simple ‘helpful’ / ‘unhelpful’ rating method, enhanced with feedback comments so you can collect information on the quality of the content.
Feedback Panel
Admin panel for reviewing all the feedback comments received for all the knowledge base content, including the option to remove content.
Feedback Notifications
The plugin has many options to configure email notifications sent to the administrator when new feedback (with or without comment) is added.
Feedback Contact
If the user consents to the contact about the feedback, you can use the Send message popup to contact the user for more information.
Privacy & Security
Feedback has extra options for protecting feedback forms from spam and providing a privacy policy related to getting an email from visitors.
Search Log
The plugin logs all searches, and it keeps the information about where the search came from and if it was successful or not.
WooCommerce Integration
Integrate GD Knowledge Base into WooCommerce, and add FAQs, articles, references, and user guides to your WooCommerce Shop products.
Connect KB products to WooCommerce products.
Add one or more products from the WooCommerce shop to the Knowledge Base products. Content for knowledge base products will link to WooCommerce products.
Connect WooCommerce products to KB products.
Each WooCommerce product can be connected to one Knowledge Base product. This is done directly from the product editing main products meta box.
WooCommerce products enhanced with FAQ tab.
If the WooCommerce product has FAQ entries (connected to the Knowledge Base product), a new FAQ tab is added to the WooCommerce products page tabs.
WooCommerce products with Knowledge Base tab
A new Knowledge Base tab is added to the WooCommerce products page tabs if the product has articles, user guides, or references.
List shop items on the KB product page
If a knowledge base product is connected to one or more WooCommerce products, you can list these products on the knowledge base product page.
Restrict KB access to shop product buyers
For knowledge base content with access set to restricted, you can enable WooCommerce purchases to allow users to see restricted content.
Knowledge Base and Support
Support Forums
If you need help with the plugin or to report problems, use support forums.
Support ForumRequest Demo
Do you have doubts about whether this plugin is right for you? Test it first.
Request DemoPlugin Translations
Plugin's basic language is English. The plugin is translation ready, with empty POT file with all the string included in the plugin directory.
The plugin also includes full or partial translations for:
Dansk (Danish), Deutsch (German), Deutsch Schweiz (German, Switzerland), Español (Spanish, Spain), Español de Argentina (Spanish, Argentina), Español de México (Spanish, Mexico), Français (French), Français de Belgique (French, Belgium), Français du Canada (French, Canada), Hrvatski (Croatian), Italiano (Italian), Nederlands (Dutch), Polski (Polish), Português (Portuguese, Portugal), Português do Brasil (Portuguese, Brazil), Русский (Russian), Српски (Serbian), Svenska (Swedish).
It is possible that plugin has some minor spelling issues, mistypes words and other issues. Please, report any problems you find, and they will be fixed, and POT file updated when needed.
You can join the translations project for this plugin, and help with translating it to your native language. You can read more about it here: Plugin Translations.
Translations on Dev4Press.comPlugin Accessibility
Web accessibility is increasingly important factor in web development, and with the accessibility support you are making sure that people with disablities are able to use your website. Developing for accessibility is one of the priorities on Dev4Press, and we are using WCAG guidelines and approved tools to test our plugins and improve accessibility for on both admin side and the front end (for plugins with front end controlls and features).
Keep in mind that there still might be some accessibility issue with the plugin, and if you find any, please report them via support forum, and such report will be given highest priority, and issue will be fixed as soon as possible.
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