Beschreibung
HelpPress is a powerful and easy-to-use WordPress knowledge base plugin. No complicated configuration, templating, or code updates. Just install and you immediately have a fully-functional self-help system for your customers.
Features
- Theme Compatible: Compatible with almost any theme right out of the box. No templating required.
- Responsive Design: Works on almost any device or screen size your customers may be using.
- Live Search Results: Suggests relevant articles to your users live as they enter search terms.
- Customizable URLs: Customize the URL slugs for all the major sections of your knowledge base.
- Easy Content Organization: Organize knowledge base articles by category, tag, and post format.
- Breadcrumb: Includes a built-in breadcrumb to help your users keep track of where they are.
- Custom Templates: Override default templates with your own to better match your site.
- Extendable: Includes dozens of actions and filters to allow for ultimate customization.
- Lightweight: Coded with performance as a priority so it won’t slow down your site.
Screenshots
Installation
- WordPress Plugins Directory: Navigate to Plugins Add New in the WordPress admin and search “HelpPress.” Click Install and then Activate.
- Zip Upload: Navigate to Plugins Add New Upload Plugin in the WordPress admin. Browse to the .zip file containing the plugin on your computer and upload, then activate.
- Manual FTP Upload: Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/
. Navigate to Plugins in the WordPress admin and activate.
FAQ
-
I’m getting a „Page Not Found“ or 404 error. What do I do?
-
Navigate to Settings
Permalinks in the WordPress admin and click Save. -
How do I add my knowledge base to a menu?
-
Navigate to Appearance
Menus in the WordPress admin. Ensure „HelpPress“ is checked in the Screen Options tab in the top-right corner of the screen. You will now see an expandable HelpPress box on the left side of the screen that contains a custom link that you can add to a menu. -
Does HelpPress work with Plain Permalinks?
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Yes, but the slug settings will have no effect.
Rezensionen
Mitwirkende & Entwickler
„HelpPress Knowledge Base“ ist Open-Source-Software. Folgende Menschen haben an diesem Plugin mitgewirkt:
MitwirkendeÜbersetze „HelpPress Knowledge Base“ in deine Sprache.
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Änderungsprotokoll
3.1.4, November 24, 2020
- Tweak: Update compatible WP versions.
3.1.3, October 16, 2019
- Fix: Missing taxonomies on article edit screen by adding
show_in_rest
.
3.1.2, October 15, 2019
- Fix: Plugin settings action link.
- Fix: Orphaned column icon images.
3.1.1, October 15, 2019
- Fix: Ensure SVN repo has the correct files.
3.1.0, October 15, 2019
- Tweak: Update compatible WP versions.
- Tweak: Base asset minification on
SCRIPT_DEBUG
instead ofWP_DEBUG
. - Tweak: Enable Block Editor on articles by adding
show_in_rest
to CPT registration. - Tweak: Put PHP classes in global
helppress
container. - Tweak: Don’t run PHP includes through filter — could only lead to trouble.
- Fix: Double slash in asset URLs.
- Fix: Disable direct access to all PHP includes.
- Fix: Improper option default escaping.
3.0.0, October 6, 2019
- New: Rework Settings page to be powered by CMB2 instead of Titan Framework.
- New: Create
HelpPress_Plugin
class to manage plugin instantiation. - Tweak: Minor updates to code styling.
- Fix: Ensure that rewrite rules are always regenerated after post types have been registered on plugin activation.
2.0.1, April 9, 2019
- Tweak: Updated contributors and bump up compatible WP versions.
2.0.0, February 11, 2018
- New: Add option to display the knowledge base on the front page.
- New: Allow for unlimitted articles/page setting (-1) and disable pagination if chosen.
- New: Add
helppress_disable_option_{option_id}
filter to disable UI of individual setting fields. - New: Add
helppress_disable_css
filter to forcibly disable output of HelpPress CSS. - New: Add
helppress_disable_page_template
filter to forcibly disable using the page template setting, even if option exists in DB. - New: Add
helppress_is_paginated()
helper. - New: Add
helppress-taxonomy.php
template file as default forhelppress-category.php
andhelppress-tag.php
. - New: Add
helppress_disable_theme_compat_mode
filter to disable post resetting and content filtering — needed for custom theming. - Tweak: Enqueue minified assets unless
WP_DEBUG
istrue
. - Tweak: Various text capitalizations and strings.
- Tweak: Upgraded jQuery Autocomplete script.
- Tweak: Rename
helppress_is_kb_page()
tohelppress_is_kb()
. Kept old function as alias for backwards compatiblity. - Tweak: Don’t load plugin if WordPress or PHP is below required version.
- Tweak: Remove included POT file in liue of GlotPress.
- Tweak: Improved performance of demo content import.
- Fix: Only show permalinks notice to users that can manage options.
- Fix: Use knowledge base title for menu archive link.
1.4.2, November 13, 2017
- New: Add link Settings page to the plugin’s action links.
- Fix: Fix user permissions for admin menu item and „View Live“ link.
1.4.1, November 7, 2017
- Tweak: CSS enhancements for breadcrumb styling.
- Fix: Exclude admin area from context helper functions.
1.4.0, September 25, 2017
- New: Add option to use page template as knowledge base template.
- New: Added search form to the top of the article items and article templates.
- Tweak: Use dashicons for menu icon.
1.3.0, September 19, 2017
- New: Added dozens of action hooks to the front-end templates.
- Fix: i18n strings for the
helppress_category_article_count()
.
1.2.1, September 14, 2017
- New:
helppress_category_article_count()
template tag to output number of articles in a given category. - Tweak: Updated styling for search field, button, and suggestions dropdown.
- Tweak: Yoda conditionals to conform to PHP coding standards.
- Fix: Decode HTML entities in search suggestions.
1.2.0, September 13, 2017
- New:
helppress_get_kb_context()
helper function. - Tweak: Search results and category/tag archive content templates now pull from new
parts/helppress-content-article-items.php
template. - Tweak: Wrap content templates in new
#helppress
div. - Tweak: Generally more defensive CSS and consistent margins.
- Tweak: Update archive category title headings from
h2
h3
. - Fix: Responsive archive columns CSS.
1.1.1, September 9, 2017
- Fix: Various bugs.
1.1.0, September 9, 2017
- New: Added built-in demo content installer. Will offer to install demo content if no published articles exist and demo content has not been previously installed.
- Tweak: Added
helppress_article_post_formats
filter for allows post formats for articles. - Fix: Fixed missing search suggestions class file.
1.0.2, September 9, 2017
- New: Show category and tag columns in admin post table.
- New: Added inline DocBlock-style documentation to functions and classes.
- Fix: Pagination for the knowledge base archive when no categories are present.
1.0.1, September 7, 2017
- Fix: Various bugs.
1.0.0, September 6, 2017
- Initial release. So. Exciting.