VS Contact Form vs VS Knowledge Base

About With this lightweight plugin you can create a contact form. Main features of the plugin: Free and lightweight Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor Display your form with block, shortcode or widget Fields for Name, Email, Subject and Message Privacy consent checkbox Customize your form via the settings page or with attributes List form submissions in your dashboard Built-in anti-spam features Documentation at WP plugin page Active support from developer at WP forum How to use After installation go to the editor and add the VS Contact Form block or the shortcode [contact] to a page. This will display your form. Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Contact Form widget. Customize your form via the settings page or with attributes. Settings page The settings page is located at Settings > VS Contact Form. Attributes Settings and labels can be overridden by adding attributes to the block, shortcode, or widget. This can be useful when having multiple contact forms on your website. Misc: Add custom CSS class to form: class="your-class-name" Change email address for sending: email_to="your-email-address" Send to multiple email addresses (max 5): email_to="first-email-address, second-email-address" Change “From” email header: from_header="your-email-address" Change subject in email: subject="your subject" Change subject in auto-reply email to sender: subject_auto_reply="your subject" Field labels: Name: label_name="your label" Email: label_email="your label" Subject: label_subject="your label" Message: label_message="your label" Privacy consent: label_privacy="your label" Submit: label_submit="your label" Field placeholders: Name: placeholder_name="your placeholder" Email: placeholder_email="your placeholder" Subject: placeholder_subject="your placeholder" Message: placeholder_message="your placeholder" Field error labels: Name: error_name="your label" Email: error_email="your label" Subject: error_subject="your label" Sum: error_sum="your label" Message: error_message="your label" Message – more than 1 link is not allowed: error_message_has_links="your label" Message – links are not allowed: error_message_has_links="your label" Message – email addresses are not allowed: error_message_has_email="your label" Banned words: error_banned_words="your label" Privacy consent: error_privacy="your label" Messages: Displayed when sending succeeds: thank_you_message="your message" Displayed in the auto-reply email to sender: auto_reply_message="your message" Example: [contact email_to="your-email-address" subject="your subject" label_submit="your label"] When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets. Example: email_to="your-email-address" subject="your subject" label_submit="your label" Display form submissions in dashboard Via the settings page you can activate form submissions being stored and displayed in your dashboard. After activation go to menu item “Submissions”. Your form submissions will be listed here. SMTP SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is an internet standard for sending emails. By default, WordPress uses the PHP mail() function for sending emails. But when using SMTP there’s less chance your form submissions are being marked as spam. You must install an additional plugin for this, such as WP mail SMTP. Cache If you’re using a caching plugin and want to avoid conflicts with the contact form, exclude your contact page from caching. This can be done via the settings page of most caching plugins. Have a question? Please take a look at the FAQ section. Translation Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs. More translations are very welcome! The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference. Credits Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!

About With this lightweight plugin you can create a knowledge base that contains your categories and posts. Main features of the plugin: Free and lightweight Support for Block Editor and Classic Editor Display your knowledge base with block, shortcode or widget Custom post types are supported (such as WooCommerce product categories and products) Customize your knowledge base with attributes Documentation at WP plugin page Active support from developer at WP forum With this plugin you can also create a FAQ or wiki in the same way as a knowledge base. How to use After installation make sure you already have some categories and posts. Go to the editor and add the VS Knowledge Base block or the shortcode [knowledgebase] to a page. This will display your knowledge base. Or go to Appearance > Widgets and use the VS Knowledge Base widget. Default settings categories: 4 columns when using block or shortode 1 column when using widget 2 columns in small screens Order by name Ascending order (A-Z) Empty categories are hidden Parent and subcategories are displayed separately Default settings posts: Order by date Descending order (new to old) All posts are displayed Customize your knowledge base with attributes. Attributes You can customize your knowledge base by adding attributes to the block, shortcode or widget. Add custom CSS class to knowledge base: class="your-class-name" Change the number of columns: columns="3" Disable the columns: columns="0" Include certain categories: include="1,3,5" Exclude certain categories: exclude="8,10,12" Display empty categories too: hide_empty="0" Change the number of posts per category: posts_per_category="5" Reverse the order of posts: order="ASC" Display posts by title: orderby="title" Display posts in random order: orderby="rand" Disable category link: category_link="false" Display category description: category_description="true" Display post counter: post_count="true" Display post meta (date and author): post_meta="true" Display View All link: view_all_link="true" Change label of View All link: view_all_link_label="your label" Change label of post without title: no_post_title_label="your label" Change the “no categories are found” text: no_categories_text="your text" Example: [knowledgebase include="1,3,5" hide_empty="0" post_meta="true"] When using the block or the widget, don’t add the main shortcode tag or the brackets. Example: include="1,3,5" hide_empty="0" post_meta="true" With the columns attribute you can set the number of columns between 1 and 4. In small screens max 2 colums. You can disable the columns in favour of your own styling. The columns attribute will be ignored when using the block or widget. Because you can set the columns via the block or widget settings. Post tags Besides displaying posts by category you can also display posts by tag: taxonomy="post_tag" Custom post types It’s also possible to display categories and posts from a custom post type (such as WooCommerce product categories and products). To display these categories and posts you should add 2 attributes: “taxonomy” and “post_type” WooCommerce: Product categories and products: taxonomy="product_cat" post_type="product" Include product category image: taxonomy="product_cat" post_type="product" woo_image="true" Display by tag instead of category: taxonomy="product_tag" post_type="product" Have a question? Please take a look at the FAQ section. Translation Translations are not included, but the plugin supports WordPress language packs. More translations are very welcome! The translation folder inside this plugin is redundant, but kept for reference. Credits Without help and support from the WordPress community I was not able to develop this plugin, so thank you!