GD Knowledge Base

Pro

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.

11blocks
24shortcodes
12widgets
Current release
Version: 6.1
Date: 2023.07.31
First released
8 years, 3 months ago
System Requirements
PHP: 7.3
WordPress: 5.7
or ClassicPress: 1.5
Optional
bbPress: 2.6
WooCommerce: 6.0
Multisite
Individual network websites

The 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.

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Knowledge Base and Support

Knowledge Base

To get help for this plugin, start with FAQ and the Knowledge Base.

Knowledge Base

Support Forums

If you need help with the plugin or to report problems, use support forums.

Support Forum

Request Demo

Do you have doubts about whether this plugin is right for you? Test it first.

Request Demo

Plugin 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.com

Plugin Accessibility

Plugin Accessibility Status

Front End: Yes
Admin Side: Yes

Report Accessibility Issues

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.

More Features

Settings Import and Export

All Dev4Press premium plugins have a set of easy-to-use tools to export all plugin settings into files with JSON serialization. And you can export settings from that file. This way, you can keep your settings safe or transfer settings from one website to another.

Browser Compatibility

All our plugins are compatible with all popular internet browsers. This includes Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, all tested across different operating systems and desktop and mobile devices.

Regular Updates

All Dev4Press premium plugins are constantly developed and will receive regular updates to fix reported bugs, fix any security issues, and enhance and improve every aspect of plugins. And using our Updater plugin, you can update directly from WordPress.

Complete Localization

All Dev4Press free and lite plugins have a WordPress standard PO/MO translation system implemented, making it easy to translate into any language. Depending on the plugin, translations can be split into two or more files for easier translation handling.

Excellent Support

One of our primary goals is to provide the best support possible. This includes an active support forum, priority support (for Agency license), and an ever-expanding knowledge base and FAQ to ensure you get all the information you need for our plugins.

Secure and Clean Code

All Dev4Press premium plugins are coded using best coding practices, with code tested for all potential security problems. We are constantly working on maintaining full WordPress compatibility and the highest level of security for all our products.

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