MinervaKB Lite vs Ultimate FAQ Accordion Plugin

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

Having an FAQ section or knowledge base on your site is essential to make sure you are not losing customers and to reduce your support load. With the Ultimate FAQ plugin and its simple UI, you can quickly create FAQs and add them to your site using the included blocks, patterns or shortcodes. It works with WordPress’s built-in editor as well as third-party editors like Elementor and is translation-ready, with many already available here. All this in an accordion layout that is automatically responsive and adapts your FAQs to any site! 👩‍💻 Demo | 🌟 Premium | ℹ️ Support Key Features Add an unlimited number of FAQ entries, categories, tags and pages. Display your FAQs anywhere with the included Gutenberg blocks and shortcodes. FAQ accordion layout that automatically adapts to fit in any site and on any device. Works with third-party editors like Elementor. Easily translate FAQ entries using WPML, Loco Translate, Polylang, etc. With many translations already available here! Automatically adds FAQ and FAQPage structured data. Advanced FAQ and category sorting and ordering options. Zero coding! Get Set Up in No Time! When you first activate the Ultimate FAQ plugin, it will automatically run a walk-through, which will help you create your FAQs and add them to a page. Google Optimized The plugin includes full FAQPage and FAQ schema structured data markup, in LD+JSON format. So, when your page is indexed, Google will know it’s an FAQ page and can list it accordingly in search results. Multiple Languages? We’ve got you covered! Your FAQs are created using a post type. This means it works out of the box with language plugins like WPML, Loco Translate and Polylang. There are also many community translations already available here. And, of course, we include an up-to-date .pot for good measure, in case you like to create your own custom translations for your FAQs. FAQ Customization Options We’ve included (in the free version!) advanced customization features that let you choose what elements show for each FAQ (e.g. categories, tags, author, date, etc.), set the order of your FAQs and categories, fine tune accordion behavior, add your own custom CSS and more! FAQ Statistics Statistics and view counts are automatically enabled, so you can easily keep track of which FAQs are the most popular. FAQ Comments We’ve included the ability for you to enable comments on FAQs, giving you a platform to communicate with your users/customers and help improve not only your knowledge base, but your overall product or service. The FAQ comments make use of WordPress’s built-in comment engine, which means seamless integration and you can use WordPress’s comment and moderation settings to fine tune the experience. Use AI to Generate FAQs You no longer need to manually create all your FAQs. Let the plugin do the heavy lifting for you! We now offer Open AI integration, via which the plugin will automatically generate new FAQs for you. You just need to specify which page or post should be used and the plugin will automatically create the FAQ based on the content of it. You can also choose to automatically assign an FAQ to a category. You then get a chance to review the generated content before publishing it to your site. Premium AI-generated FAQs In the premium version you will get access to create up to 20 AI-generated FAQs at a time as well as to specify multiple pages and/or posts from which the content should be pulled to generate the FAQs. Privacy note: The plugin sends post or page content to our server, which is forwarded to Open AI when using the AI FAQ generation feature. No other data is sent to external sources. Powerful FAQ Search (Requires Premium) Have a lot of FAQs? Our powerful search engine eliminates the need for your customers to scroll through endless FAQ entries to find the info they need. Add the FAQ search form anywhere on your site via block, pattern or shortcode. It uses asynchronous requests to search your whole database of FAQs in real time, without having to reload the page. It comes with an option to display your FAQs on page load, so you can use one block for everything. No duplicates. No mess. Super easy for your users! Enable the highlighting and auto-complete options for an even better FAQ search experience. WooCommerce FAQ Support (Requires Premium) With our built-in WooCommerce integration, you can easily add FAQs to your product pages. Adds an FAQs tab to product pages. Uses the same adaptive FAQ layout for seamless integration with any theme. Options to automatically or manually add FAQs to a product. Automatically: Just create an FAQ category that matches the name of a category or product from your WooCommerce. Manually: Go to the WooCommerce product edit screen and add the FAQs you want. Let People Submit Their Own FAQ Ideas (Requires Premium) Want to give your customers the power to make your knowledge base better? Add an FAQ submission form anywhere on your site using the included block or shortcode, so people can give new FAQ ideas and even optionally include a suggested answer. Need More? We’ve Got You Covered with the Ultimate FAQ Premium Version! Enhance your user experience by customizing the Ultimate FAQ plugin to your exact needs with the following premium features: Additional FAQ layouts 15 icon sets for the FAQ toggle symbol WP Forms Integration that automatically loads matching FAQs as people type in the form. Drag and drop FAQ ordering Social media sharing for your FAQs FAQ animation options Add custom fields to your FAQs (e.g. links, text areas, dates, files, etc.) SEO-Friendly FAQ pretty permalinks FAQ export and import via spreadsheet Export all FAQs to a PDF (e.g. to create a user manual) Advanced FAQ styling options FAQ labelling options For further information and purchasing options, please visit our WordPress FAQ plugin homepage. Want to Try Out the Ultimate FAQ Premium Version for Free? We’re happy to offer a free 7-day trial of the premium version of the Ultimate FAQ plugin, which you can use to test out features like the FAQ search form, custom fields and styling options!** Customize Your FAQs with the Included Template System The Ultimate FAQ plugin front end is built on a series of templates that can be customized by creating your own version of the template files (to modify and/or overwrite the existing ones). This gives you a powerful and non-destructive way to customize the look and functionality to your exact needs. More info about this can be found in our documentation. For FAQ help and support Ultimate FAQ documentation Our FAQ pages here and here Ultimate FAQ installation guide and information about the walk-through Ultimate FAQ tutorial videos The Ultimate FAQ support forum Our Support Center