MinervaKB Lite vs SocraNext

WordPress Knowledge Base plugin MinervaKB is flexible and powerful WordPress knowledge base plugin. It helps you to create a simple, yet powerful helpdesk or FAQ solution. You can add articles, organise them into topics and build a home page with AJAX live search for your customers to find their answers quickly. Use box or list layout with predefined design and styles. Dedicated search results page is also present. Using plugin as opposed to dedicated knowledge base theme also helps SEO of your main site greatly, as you don’t need to move your help content to subdomain. You can check the demo here: Minerva Knowledge Base Lite demo MinervaKB Lite key features: Powerful, yet easy to use Fast live AJAX search Beautiful design Unlimited articles and topics Drag n drop topic selection on home page List and box view Font Awesome icons selector for articles and topics Fully responsive Intuitive options panel Estimated reading time in articles Views count in articles Dynamic breadcrumbs Customizeable URL slugs (via post type setting) Recent topics and articles widgets Nested topics support Dedicated sidebars for home, topics, tags, search results page and articles pages Easy localisation from options panel Uses custom post types, so your content is not locked to plugin Developer friendly – lots of actions in templates Styles options Quick, tested on many commercial sites and with many different themes Clean code Plugin is developer-friendly. We use many actions in templates and you can even copy template files to your theme and override plugin templates! To do so, create minerva-kb folder in the root of your theme and copy files from plugins/minervakb/lib/templates there. But this is optional, as you can modify templates via actions. In case you need to use this plugin in language other than English, no localisation plugin or additional effort is required, as all the strings used on client-side are available to edit in options panel. We tested MinervaKB Lite on many free and premium themes and it works surprisingly well with most of them. So it should work with any theme coded according to WordPress standards and respecting WordPress template hierarchy. If you like this plugin and find it useful, you really should check the PRO version at MinervaKB – Knowledge base for WordPress with Analytics. It has all the features of Lite plus: Built-in Analytics dashboard 7 beautiful search themes Articles ratings and feedback KB home page builder Dynamic table of contents in articles with ScrollSpy Content restriction by user role Related articles Articles drag-n-drop reorder Extended styles and typography options Dynamic topics (most liked, most viewed, recent) Custom settings for each topic, such as images, colors and icons Content shortcodes, like tip, related links, warning and others Search on article and topic pages Options, options and more options. You can configure almost everything from options panel Google Analytics integration Professional quick support Regular updates and bugfixes …many more

What the plugin provides – Custom Post Type socranext_post for AI-optimized articles (default URL slug artikelen-sn, configurable via the SocraNext platform). – Custom Taxonomy socranext (hierarchical) for categorizing those articles. – Template-based rendering for single/archive article views (plugin templates via template_include). – Admin screens under SocraNext (Overview, Articles, Categories). FAQ management is handled via the SocraNext platform. – Cache flush on (de)activation to correctly register permalinks. Display The plugin renders views via bundled templates for: – Single SocraNext articles and archive list. Structured Data – The FAQ display includes FAQPage JSON-LD to help search engines and AI systems better understand the Q&As. – SocraNext articles output their own SEO title, meta description, Open Graph tags and Article JSON-LD (independent of third-party SEO plugins; mirrored into Yoast / AIOSEO / Rank Math when present). REST API (for platform integration) Under the namespace socranext/v1, routes include: – GET /pages and GET /pages/{id} – list site pages (for adding/showing FAQ widgets). – POST /toggle – enable/disable the FAQ widget per page. – POST /store-aio-information and GET /aio-information/{page_id} – store/retrieve per-page FAQ data. – POST /blog and POST /store-blog-custom – create articles and store global custom HTML/CSS/JS for article display. – POST /collection-slugs – sync the configurable articles URL slug from the SocraNext platform (rewrite flush + cache purge). – GET /articles-list-custom – retrieve configuration for list views. – POST /llmstxt and GET /llmstxt – publish and read llms.txt / llms-full.txt content from the SocraNext platform; served at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt on the site. Note: without an account/connection to app.socranext.ai, the auto-generation routes are typically not used, but the created post types, taxonomy, and pages remain available for display. Privacy & external services – The plugin does not call external APIs on its own; the integration is typically initiated by the SocraNext platform to your website. – Websites: product site https://socranext.ai and platform https://app.socranext.ai. Prefix & naming policy All plugin identifiers use the unique prefix family “SocraNext”: Functions, hooks, options, AJAX actions, REST namespace, script/style handles: socranext_* (lowercase) Constants: SOCRANEXT_* (uppercase) Human-facing labels and PHP namespaces (if used): SocraNext (PascalCase) We avoid reserved prefixes like wp_, _, and __ for custom identifiers. Existing options and routes already comply; no migrations are required.