Posts Tagged ‘questions’

FAQs Config: Accordion Settings

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FAQs > Configuration > Accordion Settings

The Accordion feature give a unique look and feel to the WordPress FAQs plugin. It “rolls” or “opens and closes” a question and answer when the user clicks/hovers a question. There must be more than one question in a group to see the effect of this feature. As one question is opened, the current open one will be closed. Its beautiful!

Questions Bullet

This sets the color/style of the question bullets and the default is set to Black. You may change this to one of the colors listed below as a different color may fit in better with you website.

  • Black
  • Blue
  • Green
  • Orange
  • Pink
  • Purple
  • Red
  • Star
  • White
  • Yellow

Sliding Accordion

This is set to “Yes” by default which mean the accordion feature is automatically active on installation of the plugin. If you do not want to use the accordion feature then set this to  “No” to turn it off.

Active Question

When ‘Sliding Accordion’ above is set to ‘Yes’, this setting will become available. The question/item will open automatically when this is set. “1″. Enter “0″ to leave all closed. Any numeric value is a valid option that can be filled in the text field. So if you want the 10th question to be automatically opened, you’ll fill in “10″.

Sliding Event

The default option is “Mouse Click”. The other option is “Mouse Over”. This effect the event that triggers the opening/closing action.

FAQs: Translation

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You have the ability to translate the WordPress FAQs plugin in your preferred language. The translation process is rather simple and the only mandatory requirement is that you fluently understand English and another language. This article will guide you through the process if translating the WordPress FAQ plugin using an application called poEditContinue Reading “FAQs: Translation” »

FAQs v1.3.5 Release Notes

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WordPress FAQs plugin v1.3.5 Release Notes

  • ADDED: Multiple notification recipients with comma separated email addresses in ‘Configuration’.
  • FIXED: Accordion in IE8
  • ADDED: FAQ icon in TinyMCE editor to insert shortcodes
  • ADDED: DS Windows DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant
  • CHANGED: Change apply_filters(‘the_content’, “”) to wpautop()
  • UPDATED: jQuery UI Accordion library has been updated.
  • CHANGED: Use improved menu pages
  • CHANGED: Icon to Mac OS X style
  • ADDED: Redirect to save a group before adding any questions if no groups are available.

WordPress FAQs plugin

Description

The WordPress FAQs plugin gives you the ability to easily embed frequently asked questions in an organized manner into your WordPress website. Additionally the plugin allows user interaction with the submission of frequently asked questions to FAQ groups. The plugin is fully configurable and each group can be configured individually, turning on/off submission, searching and other features.

System Recommendations

  • WordPress 2.9 or higher
  • PHP 4.2 or higher
  • MySQL 4 or higher

Installation

  1. Ensure that you have WordPress installed.
  2. Download the WordPress FAQs plugin from the downloads management section in a ZIP archive (you may need to login to your Tribulant Software account in order to access your download).
  3. Extract the ZIP archive named wp-faq.zip in order to be presented with a single folder named wp-faq.
  4. Upload the wp-faq folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation. If you are upgrading, overwrite all existing plugin files from an older version.
  5. Access the “Plugins” panel in your WordPress Dashboard once logged in as administrator.
  6. Activate the FAQs plugin if it isn’t already active.
  7. Access the “FAQs” administration menu item and the submenus to manage the FAQs.

Quick Start Guide

Activation

  • Go to ‘Plugins’ in your WordPress Dashboard.
  • Go to ‘FAQ’s’ and click the activate link.

Configuration

  • The menu item FAQ’s will appear in your menu.
  • Go to ‘FAQ’s’ > Configuration.
  • Read carefully through the configuration and select the options that best suit what you want.
  • Click on ‘Save Configuration’ at the top of the page when you are done.

Groups

  • Go to ‘FAQ’s’ > ‘Groups’ > Click on ‘Add New’ at the top of the page.
  • Here Insert a title, sub menu titles and various settings you can select to create your groups or posts on your webpage.
  • Click ‘Save Settings’ once you are done.
  • Click the dropdown menu > select activate > Click Apply.

Questions

  • Note: The user would type in a question and the administrator could supply an answer, in which the administrator can put the question into the relevant groups.