Reference

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WordPress Knowledgebase Plugin

Reference is a WordPress Knowledgebase plugin that helps you manage your Knowledgebase articles easily. Create articles and organized each of your articles base on their topics.

Reference have a 'Breadcrumbs' feature that gives your users a secondary navigation scheme that reveals the user's location in your Knowledgebase.

The Reference plugin, uses the 'WordPress Menu System' in giving you convenience in creating 'Table of Contents' for your Knowledgebase. 'Sticky Table of Contents' feature that adds convenience to your users when navigating your articles.

Also, it has a 'Comment Feedback' feature that allows you to gather votes from your users, that gives you information if your articles are useful to your users or not. It also allows you to display your 'Topics' in three columns, two columns or one columns.

Current Version: 1.0.3

Features

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• Breadcrumbs
• Drag and Drop Menu using the WordPress Menu System
• Table of Contents
• Sticky Table of Contents
• Syntax Highlighting Shortcode
• Ten Syntax Highlighting Styles
• Comment Feedback
• Column Display
• Reference Shortcode

Installation

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1. You can clone the GitHub repository: https://github.com/codehaiku/reference.git
2. Or download it directly as a ZIP file: https://github.com/codehaiku/reference/archive/master.zip

Manual:

1. Download and unzip the "reference.zip" plugin.
2. Upload the entire "reference" directory to your '/wp-content/plugins/' directory.
3. Activate the "Reference" plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
4. Go to ‘Settings’ > ‘Reference’ to configure the setting of the plugin.

Settings

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Archive Slug (Advance)

This section handles all settings related to the slug of Knowledgebase archive pages.

Note: You need to update or resave the “permalink” settings if you had change any settings under this section.

1. Slug setting:

   • This option allows you to change the slug of your post archive page.

   • Default Value: dsc-knowledgebase

2. Category Slug setting:

   • This option allows you to change the slug of your taxonomy category archive page.

   • Default Value: dsc-knb-categories

3. Tag Slug setting:

   • This option allows you to change the slug of your taxonomy archive page.

   • Default Value: dsc-knb-tags

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Archive Name (Advance)

All settings related to the name of the knowledgebase archive pages.

1. Singular setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the singular name of your Knowledgebase archive page.

   • Default Value: Knowledgebase

2. Plural setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the plural name of your Knowledgebase archive page.

   • Default Value: Knowledgebase

3. Category Singular setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the singular name of your Knowledgebase category archive page.

   • Default Value: Knowledgebase Category

4. Category Plural setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the plural name of your Knowledgebase category archive page.

   • Default Value: Knowledgebase Categories

5. Tag Singular setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the singular name of your Knowledgebase tag archive page.

   • Default Value: Knowledgebase Tag

6. Tag Plural setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the plural name of your Knowledgebase tag archive page.

   • Default Value: Knowledgebase Tags

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Knowledgebase Content Setting

All settings related to the content of Knowledgebase pages.

1. Columns setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the category columns.

   • Default Value: 3

   • Max Value: 3

2. Syntax Highlighting setting:

   • This setting allows you to enable the syntax highlighting for your displayed codes which are encapsulated by the [reference_highlighter] shortcode.

   • Default Value: Enabled

3. Syntax Highlighting Style setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the style for displaying your codes that is encapsulated by the [reference_highlighter] shortcode.

   • Default Value: dark

4. Comment Feedback setting:

   • This setting allows you to enable the comment feedback for your Knowledgebase (Articles) pages.

   • Default Value: Enabled

5. Table of Contents setting:

   • This setting allows you to enable the Table of Contents for your Knowledgebase (Articles) pages.

   • Default Value: Enabled

6. Sticky Table of Contents setting:

   • This setting allows you to enable sticky Table of Contents for your Knowledgebase (Articles) pages.

   • Default Value: Enabled

7. Breadcrumbs setting:

   • This setting allows you to enable the Breadcrumbs for your Knowledgebase (Articles) pages.

   • Default Value: Enabled

8. Breadcrumbs Separator setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the separator for your Knowledgebase.

   • Default Value: /

9. Category Excerpt setting:

   • This setting allows you to change the maximum characters for the category description.

   • Default Value: 55

10. Posts per Page setting:

    • This option allows you to change the maximum knowledgebase to show in a page.

    • Default Value: 10

Note: If this setting is set to 0 it would get the "Blog pages show at most" value in the "Settings" > "Readings" page.

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Templates

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Use all the 'Reference Template Files' below to integrate and accommodate the 'Reference' plugin in your theme. Just create the listed template files below in your 'wp-content' > 'themes' > '{theme_name}' folder.

For the Used Template Tags, refer to the 'Template Tags' section.

Note: To customize the 'Template Files' of the 'Reference' plugin, you need to create the mentioned 'Template Files' below in your current activated theme.

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1. archive-dsc-knowledgebase.php file:

   • This template file is used to display the Knowledgebase archive page.

   • Used Template Tags:

     • reference_breadcrumb()
     • reference_archive_categories()
     • reference_knowledgebase_count()
     • reference_navigation()

2. single-dsc-knowledgebase.php file:

   • This template file is used to display the single Knowledgebase page.

   • Used Template Tags:

     • reference_breadcrumb()
     • reference_display_comment_feedback()

   • Used Actions:

     • do_action('reference_has_table_of_content_before')
     • do_action('reference_single_content_before')
     • do_action('reference_single_content_after')
     • do_action('reference_has_table_of_content_after')

3. taxonomy-knb-categories.php file:

   • This template file is used to display the category Knowledgebase archive page.

   • Used Template Tags:

     • reference_breadcrumb()
     • reference_category_thumbnail()
     • reference_search_form()
     • reference_child_categories()
     • reference_knowledgebase_count()
     • reference_navigation()

4. knowledgebase-none.php file:

   • This template file is displayed if there are no posts to display.

   • Used Inside:

     • archive-dsc-knowledgebase.php file
     • taxonomy-knb-categories.php file

   • Used Template Tags:

     • reference_search_form()

5. knowledgebase-search.php file:

   • This template file is used to display the searched Knowledgebase article.

   • Used Template Tags:

     • reference_breadcrumb()
     • reference_search_form()
     • reference_no_search_result()
     • reference_navigation()

Shortcodes

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This section explains the available shortcodes for the 'Reference' plugin.

For the Used Template Tags, refer to the 'Template Tags' section.

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[reference_loop] shortcode:

This shortcode is used to display Knowledgebase articles and child categories based from the topics (category) that were specified in the shortcode parameter and the Knowledgebase search in a page or post.

• Shortcode Parameters:

  • categories Used this parameter to specify the categories of the Knowledgebase you wanted to display.

  • posts_per_page Used this parameter to limit the number of 'Knowledgebase' (articles) to be display.

    • Default: 10

  • columns Used this parameter to define the columns you want to display the child categories (child topics).

    • Max columns: 3
    • Default: 3

  • enable_search Used this parameter to enable or disable the display of the 'Reference Search Field.'

    • Default: yes

  • show_category Used this parameter to enable or disable the display of child categories (child topics).

    • Default: yes

• Used Template Tags:

  • reference_loop_category()

• Shortcode Usage:

  • [reference_loop categories="WordPress, BuddyPress" posts_per_page="10" columns="3" enable_search="true" show_category ="true"]

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[reference_highlighter] shortcode:

This shortcode is used to encapsulate a 'Code' and detects the used language automatically to highlight the code syntax based on the used language.

Shortcode Usage: [reference_highlighter]<?php echo 'hello'; ?>[/reference_highlighter]

Template Tags

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reference_breadcrumb()

Displays the reference breadcrumb for Knowledgebase pages.

Was used in:

• Knowledgebase Archive
• Knowledgebase Category Archive
• Single Knowledgebase
• Knowledgebase Search

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reference_archive_categories()

Displays the Knowledgebase child categories for the Knowledgebase archive page.

Was used in:

• Knowledgebase Archive

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reference_knowledgebase_count()

Displays the number of Knowledgebase in a 'Category Archive' page. Otherwise, display the total number of Knowledgebase in the 'Knowledgebase Archive' page.

Was used in:

• Knowledgebase Archive
• Knowledgebase Category Archive
• Knowledgebase Search

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reference_navigation() Displays the pagination.

Was used in:

• Knowledgebase Archive
• Knowledgebase Category Archive
• Knowledgebase Search

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reference_display_comment_feedback() Displays the Comment Feedback.

Was used in:

• Single Knowledgebase

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reference_category_thumbnail() Display the category thumbnail. This is used in the content header section.

Was used in:

• Knowledgebase Archive
• Knowledgebase Category Archive

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reference_search_form()

Display the Reference search form that allows you to search Knowledgebase.

Was used in:

• Knowledgebase Archive
• Single Knowledgebase
• Knowledgebase Category Archive
• Knowledgebase Search
• Reference Loop Shortcode

reference_child_categories()

Display the child category of a category in a the 'Knowledgebase Category Archive' page.

Was used in:

• Knowledgebase Category Archive

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reference_no_search_result()

Display the number of Knowledgebase result in a search. Otherwise display a message that there were no Knowledgebase found.

Was used in:

• Knowledgebase Search

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reference_loop_category()

Display the child category of the defined categories in the Reference loop shortcode parameter.

Parameters:

• $categories
  • (array) The name of the categories to include
• $columns
  • (int) The number of columns
• $show_category
  • (string) Show or hide the category lists.

Was used in:

• Reference Loop Shortcode

Actions

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These actions are used in the Single Knowledgebase page

• do_action('reference_has_table_of_content_before')

  • The said action opens the container for the Reference table of contents and allows you to hook before the Reference table of contents.

• do_action('reference_single_content_before')

  • The said action opens the container for the content area and allows you to hook after the container of content area.

• do_action('reference_single_content_after')

  • The said action closes the container for the content area and allows you to hook after the container of content area.

• do_action('reference_has_table_of_content_after')

  • The said action closes the container for the Reference table of contents and allows you to hook after the Reference table of contents.