Iks Menu – WordPress Category Accordion Menu & FAQs vs Yada Wiki

Iks Menu is a WordPress plugin that provides powerful customizable system and has loads of settings for creating WordPress accordion menus and FAQs. Showcase: Skins & Animations Showcase: FAQs Showcase: WooCommerce Categories Sidebar Menu Documentation: User-friendly with screenshots Iks Menu is the best choice for sidebar menu and not only. This plugin allows you to select custom WordPress menus, any taxonomy (categories, post tags, WooCommerce product category, etc.) and automatically created FAQs post type as a source for accordion menus. It also provides images support both for custom menus, taxonomies (also supports WooCommerce categories images) and FAQs. You can show your menu using WordPress widgets, shortcode or PHP code. And you do not need to learn coding to use Iks Menu! Just set all the settings using a specially designed super-fast live editor with instant changes and no pages reloading! It will speed up your developing process. Iks Menu has more than 15 starter skins (6 FREE) – so it’s super easy to use for beginners and very customizable for advanced users. Plans Iks Menu has 2 plans: FREE and PRO (Buy PRO plan here). FREE Version Features Supports Taxonomies (Categories, Tags, WooCommerce products, any other) Supports Custom WordPress Menus (created in “Appearance” > “Menus”) Supports FAQs with Groups (created in special custom FAQs post type) Supports images for all sources of menu Supports showing posts for a taxonomy source Fast and usable menu editor with instant preview! Customize appearance for any part of menu (colors, fonts, margins, paddings, heights and widths without any coding) Customize appearance for multiple states (like Hover, Current and Children) Supports exporting and importing settings to reuse it again (all settings or just for appearance) Provides various unique settings for your menus Provides 6 free awesome looking skins out of the box: start using skins with clean design right now with just one click. Supports keyboard accessibility: “Tab” & “Enter” navigation + “Focus” state for all elements in menu … Just take a look at screenshots to see all features! PRO Version Features All features from the FREE plan Settings “Initial Expansion” to expand some items, when page loads Expand and collapse animations for submenus Ability to display Posts count “Custom styles” setting Setting to use parent-elements as sub-menu toggles Toggle: 50+ icons and 5+ animations for expanding 20+ skins … Take a look at pricing Settings Using taxonomy menu you can configure the next settings: Hide empty terms – Whether to hide terms not assigned to any posts. Order by – Field to order terms by. Order – Whether to order terms in ascending or descending order. Hierarchical – Whether to include terms that have non-empty descendants (even if ‘hide_empty’ is set to true) Include terms – Comma/space-separated string of term ids to include. Exclude terms – Comma/space-separated string of term ids to exclude. Search – Search criteria to match terms. Will be SQL-formatted with wildcards before and after. Child of – Term ID to retrieve child terms of. Parent – Parent term ID to retrieve direct-child terms of. Childless – True to limit results to terms that have no children. This parameter has no effect on non-hierarchical taxonomies. Usage 3 variants of how to use Iks Menu (plugin includes user-friendly publishing guide inside the plugin) Widget – Use it directly in widget area Shortcode – Use it anywhere with shortcode PHP code injection – Use it anywhere in your theme with PHP code Help Get help anytime 24/7 – Ask your question and we will help you anyway See documentation for plugin – Super detailed docs for better understanding of how plugin works FAQ (Answers to popular questions) – See special chapter in documentation Does not suit for you? – Suggest a new features for plugin and we will provide it as soon as possible

Yada Wiki provides a wiki post type, custom tags and categories, an index, and a table of contents option. The plugin allows you to link your wiki pages together using the wiki page titles. Note: As of Yada Wiki 3.6, for current users who have been manually adding HTML tags or special characters to their shortcodes, for security reasons these must be filtered on save. An exception was added for the EM tag because I saw support tickets where users said they were using this tag. If you have been manually editing the shortcodes then you may want to test before installing version 3.6. There are two easy to use shortcode buttons available on the editor toolbar. Rather than try to remember the shortcodes and their values, it is recommended that you use these buttons to generate the shortcodes for you. The “Add Wiki Link” Button: When you click the first button, the add wiki link button, a pop-up opens where you enter the title of the wiki page you are linking to in the “Link” text box. You can optionally enter text into the “Show” text box that you want to show for the link, or leave that blank to just show the title. There is the ability to manually add an “anchor” parameter for on-page links. Please see the documentation for more information on this. When you click “OK”, a shortcode is inserted into your edit window at the cursor location. For example to link to a wiki page called “How To Make Iced Coffee” but show the text for the link as “How To Make My Favorite Drink”: [yadawiki link=”How To Make Iced Coffee” show=”How To Make My Favorite Drink”] You use Wiki Link shortcodes to create the structure of linked pages. The “Add Wiki Listing” Button: The Add Wiki Listing button gives you three options for adding some collected output. Output TOC Page The first option inserts a shortcode that will output your “TOC” page. With Yada Wiki, you can create a special wiki page with the title of “TOC” that will serve as the table of contents for your wiki. You can use wiki links and style the table of contents as you like in the post editor. Selecting this option allows you to embed the TOC page in another page. For example: [yadawikitoc show_toc=”true”] Output Wiki Category The second option inserts a list of the wiki pages for one of your wiki categories. You can optionally choose to output the list by title or by creation date. For example: [yadawikitoc show_toc=”true” category=”Drinks” order=”title”] Output Index The third option inserts a grid of your wiki pages or categories. The output is in a responsive table-like grid and you can choose the number of columns. For example, to output wiki pages: [yadawiki-index type=”pages” columns=”4″] An example for listing a single wiki category by title: [yadawiki-index type=”category-name” category=”States” columns=”3″] An example for listing all wiki categories by title: [yadawiki-index type=”all-categories-name” columns=”3″] Note that in the index listing the category hierarchy only goes down one level deep from to the top. Sidebar Widgets: There are two Yada Wiki widgets. One for showing the TOC page and a list of article titles for a given category in the sidebar and the other for showing recent wiki articles. Please see the FAQ section for information about using the sidebar widgets. Documentation: Documentation is available at https://www.webtng.com/yada-wiki-documentation/ The FAQs below also have good information. Video Walk-through: This video provides a walk-though of all of the features: ** Translations ** The plugin is available in: * English * Spanish Acknowledgements The user @JulianSMoore has been very helpful in suggesting improvements and reviewing changes. Thanks to the user @simplyletgo who contributed the recent wiki post widget.