WordPress FAQ Plugin (CMFAQ) - Plugin Options

Editing Plugin Options

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To edit general plugin options in the WordPress FAQ plugin, click Options in the plugin tab.

Navigation to the plugin options - FAQ Plugin WordPress — Navigation to the plugin options

In the plugin options tab, you can edit several aspects of the plugin:

Plugin options tab - Best FAQ Plugin WordPress — Plugin options tab

Default Page

Default CM FAQ page - Choose the page that will display the FAQ Index Page for displaying all categories.

Setting up the default FAQ index page - WordPress FAQ Plugin With Search Bar — Setting up the default FAQ index page

Edit Slugs

These options make your links look nicer and SEO-friendly by adding FAQ or similar to the slug.

CM FAQ questions slug - Set the slug for FAQ questions.
CM FAQ categories slug - Set the slug for FAQ categories.
Include category slug in question URL - Include the category taxonomy part in the question URL.
CM FAQ tags slug - Set the slug for FAQ tags.

Slug options - FAQ Search WordPress Plugin — Slug options

The plugin handles URLs as follow:

Section	Path	Example
Category	/category_slug/category	www.site.com/cm-faq-category/wordpress
Tag	/tag_slug/tag	www.site.com/cm-faq-tag/basic
Question	/question_slug/question	www.site.com/cm-faq-question/what-is-wordpress

TIP: SEO-Friendly Links

The option Include category slug in question URL allows you to include category and question in the same URL. The structure will be /question_slug/category_slug/question.

So, from the example above: http://site.com/cm-faq-questions/wordpress/what-is-wordpress

Question Limit

Front questions limit - Change the number of questions shown on the index page. if there are more questions is a specific directory a link will show up at the bottom of the list.

Limiting the amount of questions on the front page - Q&A WordPress Plugin — Limiting the amount of questions on the front page

For example, specifying "3" shows 3 questions under each category:

Example on the front-end - Frequently Asked Questions Plugin WordPress — Example on the front-end

Answer word limit

Answer word limit - Choose how many words are displayed in the answers shown when you click on a category.

Limiting the answer preview length - WordPress FAQ Schema Plugin — Limiting the answer preview length

For example, specifying 55 words shows this amount of text in the answer section.

Example on the front-end - Accordion FAQ WordPress Plugin — Example on the front-end

What to show as answers

Show as an answer on a category/tag page - Choose what should be displayed as answers on the category/tag pages. You can choose between:
- Nothing
- Answer
- Excerpt
  Note: this option was added in version 1.8.0 instead of the option Show answer excerpt in QA-list.

Choose what to show as an answer - WordPress Searchable FAQ Plugin — Choose what to show as an answer

Preserve HTML-tags

Preserve HTML-tags - If enabled, HTML-formatting of content will be kept in the QA list view.

Preserving HTML-tags - WordPress Plugin for Expanding FAQ — Preserving HTML-tags

Show Related Questions

Show related Questions - If enabled, then related questions will be shown when two or more questions have the same tag.

Showing related questions - WordPress FAQ Plugin — Showing related questions

Learn more: WordPress FAQ Plugin (CMFAQ) - Tags and Related Questions

Show Tags Cloud

Show tags cloud - Shows a tag cloud on the front-end.

Enabling tags cloud - FAQ Plugin WordPress — Enabling tags cloud

Example of the tags cloud - Best FAQ Plugin WordPress — Example of the tags cloud

Learn more: How To - Show Tag Cloud

Show Search Bar in FAQ Pages

Show search bar - Shows the search bar inside FAQ pages.

Enabling a search bar - WordPress FAQ Plugin With Search Bar — Enabling a search bar

Search bar on the front-end - FAQ Search WordPress Plugin — Search bar on the front-end

Show First Line of Content

Search suggestion with content - Choose whether to show the first line of an answer in the search results.

Enabling search suggestion with content - WP Responsive FAQ With Category Plugin — Enabling search suggestion with content

Question Order

Questions order by - Choose how to sort the questions:
- by Publish Date
- by Voting
- by Title
- by Modify Date
Questions order - Choose the direction of ordering - Ascending or Descending.

Questions order settings - Q&A WordPress Plugin — Questions order settings

Noindex

Categories and Tags noindex - If enabled, meta noindex will be appended to page head on categories and tags pages.

Statistics

Plugin statistics - If enabled, statistics about displaying and voting will be collected.

When the option is enabled, a new menu item appears for checking the statistics:

Navigation to the statistics page - Accordion FAQ WordPress Plugin — Navigation to the statistics page

Learn more: WordPress FAQ Plugin (CMFAQ) - Statistics

Chat GPT

Since the version 1.8.0, the plugin allows to automatically generate answer to questions with the help of ChatGPT. Learn more about this integration and its settings in this guide: WordPress FAQ Plugin (CMFAQ) - ChatGPT Integration

REST API

Note: this section with options was introduced in version 1.8.1.

This features allows to:

give ability to API call FAQ items by category and label.
give ability to API call a specific number of FAQ items and paginate through the FAQ items.

REST API settings - FAQ Search WordPress Plugin — REST API settings

Enable REST API - If enabled then you can access questions using REST API.
REST API Key - Enter the REST API key.

Examples of REST API URLs:

[Show all questions]
https://your.site/wp-json/cmfaq/v2/questions?key=[REST API Key]

[Filter by category]
https://your.site/wp-json/cmfaq/v2/questions?key=[REST API Key]&category=[CATEGORY SLUG]

[Pagination]
https://your.site/wp-json/cmfaq/v2/questions?key=[REST API Key]&per_page=3
https://your.site/wp-json/cmfaq/v2/questions?key=[REST API Key]&per_page=3&page=2

Resetting Plugin Options

Above the options tabs is a link to show plugin reset options.

Clicking on this link shows buttons to restore plugin options to default and remove all category icons.

Reset options - WordPress FAQ Plugin — Reset options

To remove specific category icons, go to the category page and click "clear."

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