MinervaKB Lite vs Yada Wiki

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

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.