v2.4.0 — Knowledge Base, FAQ, and Contact Page modules

Extends the portal builder (v2.3.1) with three public content modules. Each has full admin CRUD, public portal views, and a section toggle in Settings → Client Portal. When a section is enabled, its corresponding nav link is automatically injected into the portal top navigation and footer.

Knowledge Base

• Categories and articles with slugs; URLs /kb, /kb/{category}, /kb/{category}/{article}
• Article view counter, excerpts, published/draft state, sort order
• Full-text search across article titles and content
• Related-articles section on each article page
• Admin: categories CRUD, articles CRUD with category filter and search

FAQ

• Flat question/answer items with sort order and published/draft state
• Public accordion view at /faq using Alpine x-collapse
• CTA linking to client support at the bottom

Contact Page

• Public form at /contact: name, email, subject, message (server-side validated)
• Submissions stored in contact_messages with IP and timestamp
• Admin inbox at /admin/contact-messages with unread counter and read/unread filter
• Opening a message marks it as read automatically

Portal builder additions

• Three new section toggles: Knowledge Base, FAQ, Contact Page (all default off)
• Portal layout auto-injects nav links for enabled sections so visitors see them in the topnav and footer without the admin manually adding custom nav links

Admin sidebar

• New Content dropdown group containing KB Categories, KB Articles, FAQs, and Contact Messages

Database

• 3 new migrations: kb_categories + kb_articles, faqs, contact_messages
• All destroy endpoints use current_password:staff validation, matching the pattern established in v2.3.1