FAQ

Installation Instructions

Thank you for your interest in FAQ WD.

Minimum requirements.

• WordPress 3.9+
• PHP 5.x
• MySQL 5.x

Perform a new installation

After downloading the ZIP file of the FAQ WD plugin,

1. Log in to the administrator panel.
2. Go to Plugins Add > New > Upload.
3. Click “Choose file” (“Browse”) and select the downloaded zip file of the faq plugin.
   For Mac Users
   Go to your Downloads folder and locate the folder with the FAQ WD. Right-click on the folder and select Compress. Now you have a newly created .zip file which can be installed as described here.
4. Click “Install Now” button.
5. Click “Activate Plugin” button for activating the FAQ WD.
6. If the installation does not succeed, please contact us at info@web-dorado.com.

How can I add an FAQ question?

Add frequently asked questions in add FAQ section.
Title. Provide the main question within the title of the custom post.
Description. Provide the detailed answer to the question.

How can I create and manage a category?

Here is how you can add categories for the FAQs.
Name. Define a name for the FAQ category.
Slug. Provide the slug which will be used for the user-friendly URL display of the category questions.
Description. Provide details about the category and its main specifications.

WordPress FAQ WD allows you to reorder the categories. All you need to do is use the drag and drop option to easily order the FAQ categories. The options will be saved automatically.

Is it possible to edit the appearance of FAQs?

Paid version of WordPress FAQ WD plugin provides Themes Options. In this section of the plugin you can make changes to the default themes add create new themes (commercial version).

General Settings
The FAQ WD WordPress Plugins allows you to change options, such as search box, expand/collapse, read more and others. You can change the general width, text colors, font sizes and set margin.

Categories
This subsection of the FAQ plugin allows you to change category-related settings. You can change anything from text color, background color, font size, to border sizes, etc. The same applies to the category description, which in addition to the first list can also have margin and padding values. The selected category can have a different color as well as border.

Can I modify the settings of the plugin?

Question Settings
The plugin has the possibility to change question-related settings. You can change the space between the question, text color and hover color, background color, font size, as well as set borders and define its parameters. If the questions are numbered you can set the font size and color for the numbers. The default navigation arrows can be replaced with custom buttons when uploading the images.

Answer Settings
In this subsection you can change answer-related settings, as well as parameters of comments, views, date display and votes (likes). You can change the text color and hover color, background color, font size. In case of the answer you can set margin and borders and define their parameters.

General Settings
There are a number of settings you can configure for WordPress FAQ WD. You can choose to display sharing, commenting options, as well as date and the number of views.

Display social sharing buttons in the question page. Check the box to display social sharing buttons (Facebook, Google plus and Twitter).
Display date in the question page. Check the box to display the FAQ creation date.
Display the number of views in the question page. Check the box to display the number of the FAQ views.
Display the number of comments in the question page. Check the box to display the number of comments related to the question.
Enable Comments. Choose whether to enable commenting or not.

How can I publish the FAQs on pages or posts?

Follow the instruction to include the FAQ lists in a post/page using FAQ shortcode.

Go to the Page/Post, where you want to add the FAQ, click on the FAQ icon (question mark) within the standard editor, a pop-up will open up, where you can set the FAQ options.

Categories
Check the categories you want to display within the page. The category titles will be displayed as separate tabs. If category titles are disabled, the questions will be displayed in a sequence without category separation. The sequence of the categories will be based on the ordering set in Order section.
Select theme.Select the theme for displaying the FAQs.

Category Options
Show Title. Choose whether to display the title of the category or not.
Show Description. Choose whether to display the category description before proceeding to FAQs or not.
Category Numbering. Choose whether to provide numbering for the categories or not.

FAQ Options
Like. Choose whether to display like/dislike button
Hits. Choose whether to display the number of the views or not.
Date. Choose whether to display the date of the added FAQ.
User. Choose whether to display the name of the logged in user, who added the FAQ.
Expand all answers after the page is loaded. Check the box to enable this option.
Search. Check to display a search button for the FAQ search.