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[Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-03-17 I searched the forum and Extend for glossary or FAQ plugins, but couldn't find any. So, if one of our plugin developers might need the functionality at some point in time as well, I'd gladly help with conception, testing and documentation. It would be cool to manage several glossaries/faqs and be able to place them wherever. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - nitsuj - 2011-04-26 I was just searching for the same thing. I'm really surprised that no one has created one yet. Since almost every website seams to have an FAQ area, would it be worth adding this functionality to the core? [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mikeh - 2011-04-26 I'll give it a shot, it would benefit me in a few different ways. What kind of features would be desired? [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - Oleg06 - 2011-04-26 I also need a FAQ plugins [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-04-26 mikeh Wrote:I'll give it a shot, it would benefit me in a few different ways.That would be brilliant! mikeh Wrote:What kind of features would be desired?What comes to mind here right now is: FAQ
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Will add to this if more things pop up. Thanks for taking this on, mikeh! \o/ [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-04-26 nitsuj Wrote:Since almost every website seams to have an FAQ area, would it be worth adding this functionality to the core?I think it makes for a good plugin addition. I know it can seem tempting to include lots of (seemingly) "must-have" modules, but those really start to bloat up the software after a while. Thanks to Chris' work, installing a plugin is a pretty easy process. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mikeh - 2011-04-28 polyfragmented Wrote:nitsuj Wrote:Since almost every website seams to have an FAQ area, would it be worth adding this functionality to the core?I think it makes for a good plugin addition. I know it can seem tempting to include lots of (seemingly) "must-have" modules, but those really start to bloat up the software after a while. I have already started on it Please expect up to a week until completion. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-04-28 mikeh Wrote:I have already started on it Please expect up to a week until completion.You rock! \m/ [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mikeh - 2011-05-04 mikeh Wrote:I have already started on it I ran into a couple snags. It could be up to another week before I finish this plugin [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-05-04 Mate, take your time. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - Rene - 2011-05-05 A FAQ plugin would be brilliant! I had the same plan and this ( http://getsimple.dare-is.nl/faq/) is what I have so far ... Put next jQuery code in header Code: $('#faqs span').each(function() { Put next code in CSS Code: #faqs { position:relative; margin-left:10px;} Create new page (example 'FAQ'), press button code and copy/paste next HTML code into it ... Code: <h1>Frequently Asked Questions</h1> The only thing you have to do is to alter the text. Not brilliant, but it works for sofar. Next step was to put text into a XML file. Hope some code is usefull for Mikeh. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-05-05 Rene, nice idea and indeed seems to basically work just fine. Way to go! [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mikeh - 2011-05-06 Rene Wrote:A FAQ plugin would be brilliant! Thanks! I like what you did with the jquery and I will incorporate that coding! Thanks for your help [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - jlm - 2011-05-06 Hello, I think I followed the procedure, but I can not run this code. Sorry. Can you upload the theme "Innovation" with embedded code. This could help people with no knowledge on php thank you [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mvlcek - 2011-05-06 @Rene, @mikeh, @polyfragmented, thanks for the input, however, I think you missed an important point:
How would you enter an FAQ, if you just had paper? Maybe format the questions as headers and the answers as anything else. It could be long answers with bullets and images and so on. And if you use headers for questions, why not structure the questions in multiple levels, e.g. questions for the I18N plugin, questions for the I18N Search plugin, ...? But how can the user specify that a page is a FAQ: the easiest way I see is to enter a special tag, e.g _faq. The rest was easy - well not SO easy - but I have created a simple FAQ plugin. It's not much longer than what Rene suggested. Just some Javascript to style the questions and to put answers longer than one element in a container. And if you have Javascript disabled, you will just see the questions and answers as normal headers and text - still readable. And here is an Example. Any questions, suggestions, etc. please in the FAQ plugin topic http://get-simple.info/forum/topic/1876/faq-plugin/ [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - Rene - 2011-05-06 jlm Wrote:Hello, @jlm Chris C wouldn't like me to upload an altered Innovation theme but I've attached a simple working example of the code i've posted before. Hope this help, otherwise use the FAQ plugin posted by mvlcek. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mikeh - 2011-05-06 mvlcek Wrote:@Rene, @mikeh, @polyfragmented, It would have been nice if you could have expressed your interest in making this plugin so I did not have to waste my time. Anyway, the way you made it work using regular page creation was interesting. good thinking! [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mvlcek - 2011-05-06 mikeh Wrote:It would have been nice if you could have expressed your interest in making this plugin so I did not have to waste my time. Sorry about that. Based on the posts I assumed you are working on a full-blown plugin as described by polyfragmented and running into difficulties :-( Yesterday afternoon I read this topic and thought about a slightly different approach and if it would work well enough. Two hours later I had a working version and submitted it to Extend after a bit of finetuning. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-05-06 Mikeh, if you still want to continue work on your implementation, I'm still game. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mvlcek - 2011-05-06 polyfragmented Wrote:FAQ Some more ideas:
[Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - mikeh - 2011-05-06 mvlcek Wrote:mikeh Wrote:It would have been nice if you could have expressed your interest in making this plugin so I did not have to waste my time. no problem, my post was not well-thought-out. [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-05-07 Added a feature idea to my original post above. Link to individual questions [named anchors, auto-generated (e.g. faq-name_01)] [Request] Glossary and/or FAQs - polyfragmented - 2011-05-08 Added a feature idea to my idea post. Make collapsing optional so a FAQ can be displayed fully |