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1. 5 If you now check on your site you should have a link on your navigation with the Page name you entered Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 13 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin ose anes KNOW LEDGE 6 Click on the link and you should now see the questions you entered WORDPRESS PLUGIN We recommend you take a look at the section on Styling Your FAQ to tweak the look of the CSS to fit the WordPress theme that you re using About Home Simple FAC Simple FAQ Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 14 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SEE maNu KNOWLEDGE Creating a Paged FAQ Dashboard Paged FAQs are used when you want to have your Questions appearing on one page and your Answers on separate pages The main questions page will act as the parent page with all answers being F AC D 9 sti C child pages of the parent This feature was originally built with the intention of easily creating additional keyword targeted pages for any WordPress site This is _ particularly useful for Search Engine Optimization experts or Internet Marketers When properly used these additional pages can help with Write 1 EE Desig Post Page 2g _ building a good in2. Answering TNS QUESTION isis nienasuvaeianniaeesdinnweavedwauannessiinaswaswaibaanedioeunanndaee ETA AR AA OAA 24 Summarised EUSUS acacasisciucencaancesniandevacevavssssunicadunsekdeudussinadswseasaviusudedtnvdesundunbeddienseauansensauanseann 25 Boja o n E E E E E E E 26 EES AC CS E A EE E E A E E A EE E TE 27 EMALIO aaan EE EAEE 27 GAOU arna R E A aA 28 PAO FA ASI roa A E a 28 PEA TAG aaa AAE T E A A 28 FAQ Tastic Help Quick ReferencCe ccccccccseseeceneneneneneneneneneneneneneseesseeeueueueueueusnsnneeseseeaessnass 29 SUDDOFUNG FAQ Tastic Lil Giiiicissitincivnrincsateandawduersaviensudusiwavivenduawsadtuntuauanensdectiasteasavansaasannniuuss 30 DONON eae ceed sant san bansaeecmensc A 30 Upgrade TO FAO ha Stic FiO saves vencasenemnassennsntatahasaxisetnsacanepneneessnvsatedepisansestentanenisuievesnenietanenianisassiaueninas 30 TMP TC h rare srce arte cp arene A E AAE ecu a seas eetaaen secs erat 31 ANK TOU aa ates vast ict arnt ev wee anc po ci sg oan pe eens aie sane ans oneness 31 JOM PROJECT FAO WOO iesccinaanasetinsasienceamaneactaca AAAA AA AENA EEEN RA 31 FAO TasStiC Pl O sisatcnicivonssesencavunecasssndccensustananeusiaeaciissaudnnsdtnnieveecssumensnsncnstenmisanisucnastsensanarimensses 31 Acknowledgement S cssiiitetesnntsandrsicdecececssianscssunsesienswsndeanigendiniansditonesdieiesuisuenactsuuivicuastsesuesibins 32 Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic J
3. I m just going to quote what John Reese had to say about Frank Kern s Flycatcher pages someone else that should get an out of nowhere mention since we re talking about innovation is FRANK KERN Frank has created some KILLER concepts and ideas that many use today to make tons of money His flycatcher page concept was truly revolutionary for infoproduct research and creation He s done tons of other stuff too many that IM folks aren t exposed to John Reese s Warrior Forum comment Frank the flycatcher page was such a killer concept we made it easy to do in FAQ Tastic Pro Beta Testers Zax Dow 3D Title amp Logo Specialists Andre DeLano Pet Stain Removal Specialist Scott Hendison Internet Consulting amp Search Engine Expert Florian Paulus Major Thanks for helping to identify cyrillic character issues Special Thanks to Tracy Robinson JeffParishSection8 org amp Zax Dow ZaxWerks com for being the only 2 people in the world to make a donation to FAQ Tastic And finally to Jane McCarthy for her positive intentions and faith in the law of attraction and Saumil Patel an excellent Internet Marketer who brought me up to speed when I was first learning SEO and Internet Marketing Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 32 32
4. add the following code above the ist shortcode fag ask simple faq summary name Where name is the name of the Question Group you created earlier Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 25132 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin 552 m4Ne KNOWLEDGE 6 Click on the Save button Note Your changes are immediately viewable on the site as soon as your page is saved 7 Your page should now look a little bit like this with the questions entered neatly summarised at the top of your FAQ page Can add HTML to my answers How dol add a question to FAQ Tastic Can users ask questions CAN IT ADD HTML TO MY ANSWERS Rating H ng Yes you can add HTML to the answers box so you can add links as well Options Dashboard Howdy admin Log Out Help Forums FAQ Tastie WordPres h Plugin Visit Site wie Manage Design Comments Settings Plugins Users Posts Pages Links Categories Tags Link ge Import Expo FAQ Tastic Pending Questions amp Groups Options Help Messages E Note screenshot a to fit in this sant 1 Log into your WordPress administration panel and click on the Manage link on the main menu 2 Click on the FAQ Tastic link in the sub menu Click on the Options link in the FAQ Tastic sub menu Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Frie
5. 2 1 will look a little different but it s essentially the same thing Deactivate All Plugins Plugin Wersion Description Status Akismet 2 1 4 Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web Active service to see if they look like spam or not You need a WordPress com API key to use it YOu can review the spam it catches under Comments To show off your Akismet stats just put tphp akismet counter 7 gt in your template See also WF Stats plugin Sp dfait Audern eg 3 Scroll down and find the FAQ Tastic plugin 4 On the right hand side find the Activate button and click on it Inactive Activate Edit And you re done in 6 Unlike other WordPress plugins FAQ Tastic will automatically take you to the Help Quick meets Activate Edit Reference page for the plugin This page provides all WordPress shortcodes for using the plugin Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 6 32 T a FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAD Plugin KNOWLEDGE USER MANUAL March 2008 version 1 0 7 On the help page is a link to the FAQ Tastic administration interface click on it and we ll get 7 started with creating a Question Group el Posts Pages Links Categories Tags Pending Questions amp Groups Options FAQ Tastic Help Quick Refer FAQ Tastic is a plugin to create and manage
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7. Question Group 5 Click on the Publish button to save your changes Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 15 32 version 1 0 FRO lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SEE maNu KNOWLEDGE Creating A Paged Question Group Now that you ve create a new parent page we can now create the Question Group in Paged mode 1 Click on the Manage link on the main menu at the top 2 Click on the FAQ Tastic link on the sub menu Click on the Questions amp Groups link on the FAQ Tastic sub menu le el a nd ell Oe pa E E aE a ee Create Question Group as A group allows you to bring together alist of questions about a particular topic If you specif created for every question Group name _J attached page Nopage B add group E j non No page Publish an FAQ Simple FAQ Home About This will automatically create a page with the required ir play an FAC 4 Add the name you used in the FAQ list code you entered earlier 5 Use the dropdown menu and select the Page you created that contained the FAQ code 6 Click on the Add group button a al aN ee Search eee page 25 ao Name Attached page Questions Pending aged Fa Paged FAQ Ne OQ questions ER simple 3 guestions Create Question Group 7 As with the Simple Question Group the Name of your new group appears on the left Clicking th
8. Sent to the user when a simple question is answered The answerg 1 For Simple Question Groups once a visitor question has been approved a message will be sent to the user with the Approved simple question text in the email fanswert 2 For Paged Question Groups the Approved paged Approved paged Thank you T question message is sent to the user question Sent to the user when a paged question is answered 3 If you feel that the visitor question should be rejected an email will be sent to the user with the Rejected question text in the email All emails use the Message field when approving visitor questions This is so that you can add a specific message to further explain things to your site visitor see the Answering The Question section Rejected question Thank you Sent to the user when a question is rejected messages Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 27 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin Semanu KNOWLEDGE General Options 1 The Admin role is used to select the User role required to use FAQ Tastic Some companies only provide Editor access for some users so this feature provides the functionality to restrict the answering of questions to Editors and above General Options ee Admin role Adrministrator User role D E onore sad ki
9. just called it simple but you can use any text you like Tip Remember the name that you give to your group as you will be using it later Click on the Add Group button 6 Excellent You ve now created a new Simple question group Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 9 32 version 1 0 FAO Tastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin 5 522 KNOWLEDGE Editing A Question Group Search P Re page 25 na Attached page Questions Pending O questions 2 eS Crededt gow lestion Group Now you ve created a new Simple Question group we ll have a quick look at editing Question Groups 1 Click on the new link on the left with the name of your new Question Group In our example we called it simple your name may be different if you called it something else A new Edit Group pop up window should appear like the one below Edit group sf Name E seee OO Allow Lal ratings Saver Cancel X 2 Name allows you to change the name of the Question Group The Allow ratings checkbox is used to turn Ratings on and off on your site When you are happy with your options just click on Save or Cancel if you don t want to amend the default settings Deleting A Question Group 1 To delete a Question Group just click on the small red icon with a white bar in it on the right hand side of your newly created gr
10. marketer This was possibly the best thing that could ever happen as it meant that FAQ Tastic seeds were starting to be sown Zain s previous experience as an ex Developer at Emap Online and Freeserve as well as his Project Management experience in Wanadoo and Orange UK provided the perfect skill set to understand the technical challenges of building WordPress plugins as well as the enormity of the task at hand Being frugal to put it mildly Zain s initial reaction was to try and build the FAQ plugin himself However the low persistent voice in the back of his mind of Internet Marketing guru Rich Schefren which repeatedly asked him Are you working IN your business or ON your business made him re assess the situation and hire a WordPres plugin specialist more suited to the task Good call After a month of searching the perfect Developer see below was found and the FAQ Tastic project began Yet during the development of the plugin another voice was heard this time of marketing guru Eben Pagan who kept reminding him to move the free line And so it came to pass FAQ Tastic was delivered to the WordPress community for free and hailed as the ultimate plugin for building FAQs Zain is currently working on building easy to use professional websites using WordPress as a Cpntent Management System CMS He is also creating a range of WordPress training manuals and new plugins In his spare time Zain is the Admin on the Facebook
11. of FAQ Tastic we can now jump in and start creating Simple and Paged Question Groups Feel free to jump to the section you want if you already know the type of group you need Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 8 32 version 1 0 FAO Tastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin 575 20s Creating a Simple FAQ kdrmin Log Out Help Forums FAQ Tastic WordPress Write Manage Design Comments Settings Plugins Users Posts Pages Links Categories Tags Link Cate Export FAGQ Tastic Pending Westions amp Groups Options Help Question Groups a There age ne groups Note images have been torn to reduced to fit this manual Depending on whether you clicked on the adminstration interface link on the Help page you may or may not be on the FAQ Tastic Questions amp Groups page To get to the Questions amp Groups administration interface follow these steps 1 Click on the Manage link on the top of the WordPress admin 2 Click on the FAQ Tastic link on the subnavigation menu 3 Click on the Questions amp Groups link on the FAQ Tastic submenu Create Question Group A group allows you to bring together a list of questions about a particular topic If you created for every question Group name Attached page Mo page Add group 4 Type ina Group name into the input field In this example we ve
12. the sub menu Bele 3 You should now see a list of all the ae pages on your site E Date Title Click on the page that contains our new FAQ to edit it Cl 16 hours ago About 4 You should now be in the edit screen for your FAQ Cl 13 hours ago Home In the visual editor just type in Note name is the name of the group you i Visual HTML Page ny il il He a 4 fm B Z t i fag list simple fag ask simple al Click on the Save button on the page and let s see the results 6 Your page should now have an Ask Box added just beneath the list of questions see above The Question box is where the user types in their question Type in a question as we ll be looking at how to answer visitor questions soon 7 Add an address to the Email field this is optional Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 21 32 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SE MANeA version 1 0 KNOWLEDGE 8 Click on the Ask Question button to add the question to FAQ Tastic HOW DO I ADD A QUESTION TO Rating a a FAQ TASTIC You simply use the Question and Answer fields under the Questions amp Groups tab for FAQ Tastic HAIA Can users ask questions Users Can ASK Their Questions Lo gJ out WUE sera icanaskquestion cam Comments RSS Ask question
13. they just grab this guide they can get to know more about it even before they install it Join Project FAQ World We re currently in the process of setting up an ultimate FAQ resource called FAQ World Why not join us and send us the location of Your FAQ We ll happily list it on the FAQ Tastic website because we re aiming to have a biggest collection of FAQs available on the internet For you Search Engine experts and Internet Marketers out there think of it this way adding your FAQ to this resource will make it stronger and have excellent Page Rank value At FAQ Tastic com we re simply giving you the opportunity to get listed and have some link love go back to Your FAQ Click this link to visit the FAQ World project FAQ Tastic Pro Did you ever think that an FAQ plugin could help make you money No Would you believe us if we said it could Well at Knowledge Constructs we took the idea of FAQs to another level and have created a version called FAQ Tastic Pro This upgraded version could e Help to create eBooks Build Search Engine Optimized sections amp pages for your website Help you with good organic search results Insert Adsense code into each FAQ page E i im m E Ga a Make links to related question Control PR juice by providing nofollow attributes to related question links and do a lot more than FAQ Tastic Lite Visit our website to find out more abou
14. Press I may not have pursued FAQ Tastic as the idea had been done before So Thanks Dave I still owe you a beer Michael Fortin considered by many to be the 1 Internet Marketing Copywriter today for his review of FAQ Tastic Create Optimized Blog FAQs On The Fly 16th April 2007 Michel s kind words helped to spread the word of the plugin to a very large audience and made me realise how good the plugin really was Again without this initial endorsement FAQ Tastic could ve been a project gathering dust instead of the popular plugin that the WordPress community enjoys today Andy Jenkins amp Brad Fallon for creating StomperNet Key SEO concepts added to FAQ Tastic and FAQ Tastic Pro were all as a result of the practical internet marketing and search engine optimization techniques that StomperNet provided A special thanks to Andy Jenkins for being a really genuine honest and open person It s extremely refreshing to meet someone who really believes in helping people and in building products with of the highest quality Sherman Hu WordPress tutorial expert amp faculty member of StomperNet for his introduction to WordPress and all of his blogging tips and tricks and their application to Internet Marketing Dan Thies SEO Expert amp faculty member of StomperNet and much much more for his free SEO Fast Start eBook A few of Dan s ideas presented in his book made it into FAQ Tastic Pro Frank Kern
15. Skindred group He is also the Designer Developer Admin and WebMaster of the eagerly anticipated Skindred Fansite Zain s company Knowledge Constructs is currently in discussions to build the Official Skindred website fingers crossed eh Zain is also looking to retire from the world of Child Wrestling after suffering from dodgy knees after his humiliating last defeat at the hands of Sam The Tiger Bador pictured Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 3 32 gt FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin YEE MANeA version 1 0 KNOWLEDGE About The Developer of FAQ Tastic John Godley is an enigma He is the best WordPress Plugin Developer that I ve never met Since all correspondences have been entirely done via email we have the feeling that John may actually be an Artificial Intelligence software attempting to pass the Turing test The speed at which John completes tasks is exceptionally fast for the average and even highly skilled Developer perhaps too fast The solutions that John comes up with are also extremely logical perhaps too logical The integration of his plugins with WordPress are perfect perhaps too perfect The only tell tale sign that John may actually be a human Developer is the low prices he charges for his services Saying that this could possibly be the result of a faulty billing
16. algorithm coded into the Godley software Removing the Kudos 1 5 plugin and upgrading to L Oreal 2 0 could fix this issue John is also the author of a range of excellent WordPress plugins HeadSpace2 Redirection e Drain Hole e Sniplets e and many more Alledgedly John has recently escaped from the Guangzhou province in China He can be contacted on his website at UrbanGiraffe com Enough of this nonsense Let s get started Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 4 32 version 1 0 gt FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin YEE MANeA KNOWLEDGE What is an FAQ An FAQ is an acronym standing for Frequently Asked Questions The purpose of an FAQ on a website is to enable the site owner to provide the answers to common questions quickly and easily for site visitors FAQ s are an extremely useful tool for anyone or website that regularly has to answer visitor messages An FAQ can help to save a lot of time since site owners no longer have to contact individual visitors and can simply point them to the location of specific answers if the question has been asked before FAQ Tastic is an FAQ builder for WordPress Unlike other FAQ software FAQ Tastic does not simply generate a single page of answers it s is able to create multiple FAQs to enable a site to contain many logical categories of answers For
17. c Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 12 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SiR maNu KNOWLEDGE enabled 6 The Negative rating can be changed or reset if ratings are enabled Drag amp Drop Question Ordering Now that you discovered how to add and edit questions add a few to your new Question Group and let s play with re ordering your Questions emn r Questions for simple Questions can be re ordered by dragging and dropping 1 Click and HOLD on any green part of one question in your list 2 Just drag it and release it above or below other questions Can add HTML to my answers tz N 3 You ve now re ordered your questions _ How do add a question to FAQ Tastic wl select all delete selected Note re ordering your questions automagically makes the new order available on your site No need to save Publishing a Simple FAQ i l _ IMPORTANT This feature currently only Publish A Simple FAQ works with Simple Question Groups 1 Type in a Page name This will automatically create a page with the requireqy This name will be used for the Page Title and the Page Slug 2 Select the Simple Question Group you Question Group simple Y want to publish 3 Click on the Publish button Publish A new page has been created and the WordPress shortcode has been added automagically
18. d manageable groups Okay now you understand what a Question group is what else is there to know The 2 Types of Question Groups There are two types of Question Groups Simple and Paged Why Because they do slightly different things depending on how you want your questions and answers to be displayed on your site Here s a brief explanation e Simple Used when you want questions and answers on the same page e Paged Used when you want your list of questions to appear as a list of links on a main page and for each answer to be on separate pages Some of you are probably wondering why you would want or need to create Paged FAQs The reason is actually because of search engine optimization SEO Feel free to skip this next bit if you ve no idea about Internet Marketing or Search Engine Optimization Thankfully at Knowledge Constructs we understand basic SEO principles and know that the more pages you have for your site means more opportunities to add targeted keyword content to your site FAQ Tastic helps you to create pages quickly and easily and more importantly separate out your content into content users are actually looking for some of that may have gone over your heads Don t worry about it Bottom line FAQ Tastic can help you with getting good organic search results if used properly You could get on page 1 of Google but more about this when we release FAQ Tastic Pro Now that you understand the basics
19. e than most people would want it to do or need it for So why would we create another version of this plugin Quite simply FAQ Tastic Pro is aimed at Internet Marketers and Search Engine Optimization SEO experts that see the value in creating content easily and have a desire to build authority sites FAQ Tastic Pro takes the original idea of FAQs to another level and blows it out of the water The new version has been designed to help aspiring Internet Marketers create their own eBooks to helping professional bloggers monetize their blogs through to helping with building laser focused keyword targetted pages E im mm kn Visit the website if you would like to learn more about FAQ Tastic Pro Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 30 32 version 1 0 gt FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin 5ER yANe KNOWLEDGE Tell A Friend A simple thing you can do is to just tell other people about FAQ Tastic and FAQ Tastic Pro Either email your friends or use our handy FAQ Tastic Tell A Friend webform to tell your friends about what you ve discovered Link To Us Writing a review on FAQ Tastic and just telling all of your readers also helps Feel free to upload this User Manual to your own website to let them know what they re missing It s got a link to the download page at the beginning so even if
20. example common questions relating to a product could be separated into 1 questions about the product features 2 questions about how to use the product 3 questions about related products The ability to separate the questions into different groups helps the site visitor to find questions quickly as well as saving the site owner a great deal of time answering the same questions again and again Installing FAQ Tastic 1 Download FAQ Tastic Lite from FAQ Tastic com Click the link if you haven t downloaded it already 2 Unzip the contents of the package into a location you can remember 3 You should now have a Folder called FAQ Tastic 4 FTP File Transfer Protocol the whole FAQ Tastic folder to yourWPLocation wp contents plugins Where yourWPLocation is wherever you installed WordPress 5 You are now ready to Activate the plugin Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 5 32 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SEE maNu version 1 0 KNOWLEDGE Activating FAQ Tastic Dashboard admin Log Out Help Forums FAQ Tastic WordPress Plugin Visit Site m Write Manage Design Comments Settings Plugins Users 1 Log into your WordPress admin area and click on the Plugins link on the WP Dashboard 2 You should now be in your Plugins page which will look a bit like this in WordPress 2 5 Note Version
21. ic Join Project FAQ World 28 32 USER MANUAL FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin eren 2008 KNOWLEDGE FAQ Tastic Help Quick Reference As previously mentioned upon activating FAQ Tastic you will immediately be taken to the Help screen to get you started immediately with the plugin If you need a quick reference on the codes used for the plugin then this Help tab is particularly useful You can access it just by clicking on the Help link in the FAQ Tastic sub menu E an a a T O De r a L TA D Fages Links Categories Tags Link Categories Pending Questions amp Groups Options N a FAO Tastic Help Quick Reference Posts Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 29 32 version 1 0 gt FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SER nanes KNOWLEDGE Supporting FAQ Tastic Lite FAQ Tastic was originally built to handle multiple FAQs for a particular site We hired John Godley a simply amazing WordPress Developer see About the Creators to build us the required FAQ plugin and the resulting plugin that John produced was simply too good to keep to ourselves At the end of the project the decision was made to release FAQ Tastic to the WordPress community And it was extremely well received The number of reviews and inbound links from WordPress users has been phenomenal As have been the number of suggesti
22. is link will bring up the Edit group options where you can change the name or enable and disable ratings see Editing A Question Group 8 Unlike the Simple Question Group an Attached page link is created to allow you quick access to change the Paged FAQ page You can use this link instead of having to use several clicks in the WordPress administration interface to get to your FAQ page 9 Again as with the Simple Question Group you should now have a O questions link Click on this if to begin adding questions to this new Paged question group 10 The red icon to the right of the page is used to Delete question group Be careful when using this as it will remove the group and any associated questions Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 16 32 version 1 0 gt FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SE MANeA KNOWLEDGE Adding Questions to a Paged Group Search Per page 25 fe 1 Click on the O questions link to start adding questions to your new Paged Group Questions Pending F Note as you add questions the number will H O questi amy 2 increase 3 est OT it questions 2 Follow the steps as described in ee ste Manually Adding Questions and Editing Questions and Answers in Ma the Simple Group section 3 Once you ve added questions to your new Paged Question Group they are immediate
23. k Valid XHTML KFN optional used to notify you when the question has been answered wP 9 You should now see a Thank You message like the one below Thanks for submitting a question Your question has been added to a list of other submitted guestions to be reviewed and answered at a later date Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 22 32 version 1 0 FRO lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Dlugin 355R yANe KNOWLEDGE Answering Visitor Questions Now that we ve seen how easy it is for users to ask their questions let s run through how you can answer or reject them Pending Screen Log Gut Help Forums FAQO Tas ic NordPress Plugin Mas Wie Manage Design Comments ings Plugins Users Posts Pages Links Categories Tags Link Categoriesg xport FAQ Tastic Pending Questions amp Groups Options Help Note image torn to fit in this mangak 1 Log into your WordPress administration area and click on the Manage link on the main menu 2 Click on the FAQ Tastic sub menu link You should automatically be on the Pending screen Kitten Protection a k a Cat Tastic E O O ee 433 At this point you may have Kitten Protection a ka CAT Tastic encountered Kitten Protection a k a _Cat Tastic and be thinking WTF Please dont let FAQ Tastic Kitten Developers go hungry At ni So what is Kitten Protection It
24. kground 10 Checking on your site you should now see that approving the visitor question makes it immediately visible as soon as you save your changes e simple Can ves ese questions 3 in HOW DO I ADD A QUESTION TO Rating fs FAQ TASTIC You simply use the Question and Answer fields under the Questions amp Groups tab for FAQ Tastic l Approved User CAN USERS ASK QUESTIONS Rating pay sea Yes they can It s very simple and they just sed to type their question and Ask it i need to type their question and Ask i AT Summarised Lists Summarised list work differently depending on whether you have chosen to use Simple or Paged Question Groups In Simple mode the summarised list of questions act as anchor links that will help users to jump down quickly to the question and answer on the page In Paged mode the summarised list of questions act as links to separate pages with the answers on them Note in this mode the faq list name code works in the same way as the faq summary name code e ra Here s how you create them Page 1 Log into your WordPress administration area 2 Click on the Manage link on the main menu at the top of the screen B Z ape t i ee a fag summary simple al fag list simple Click on the Pages sub menu link Find the page you created for your FAQ and click on the link 5 In the WordPress Visual Editor
25. ld now have something that looks like this CAN ADD HIML TO MY ANSWERS Rating 1 as Yes you can add HTML to the answers box a so you can add links as well HOW DO I ADD A QUESTION TO Rating H0 ma FAQ TASTIC tk You simply use the Question and Answer fields under tis This answer is good Questions amp Groups tab for FAQ Tastic Advanced FAQ Tastic CSS Styling If you want full control over your FAQ Tastic styles and are confident amending the stylesheet directly then you can find the file here wp content plugins faqtastic view faqtastic style css For a complete list of FAQ Tastic styles please take a look at the reference section at the end of this User Guide Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 20 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SEE maNu KNOWLEDGE Adding a User Ask Box Now that you can create a Question Group f add questions to the group and know how wri Manage Design Comments to publish a Simple group easily to your site _ it s time to look at how we can allow your Posts pages a Categories Tags Link site visitors to ask their questions Tan aaa Danan 1 Log into your WordPress Man Loe F dages administration area and click on the Manage link on the top menu created earlier All Pages Published 3 2 Click on the Pages link on
26. ly available on your WordPress site Questions will now appear on your FAQ page with a list of questions on the main parent page see below What happens when I add a i iestion to Paged groups What happens when I add a question to Paged groups 4 Answers now appear on separate pages They are sub pages or children of the main FAQ page Note Depending on the WordPress theme you are using you may need to amend the stylesheet to display the sub pages properly as in this example Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 17132 version 1 0 FAQ fastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin Sras KNOWLEDGE Styling Your FAQs By default FAQ Tastic is built to work with the WordPress Kubrick theme but let s face is who uses Kubrick Since most people tend to use different themes the default FAQ may look a bit like this About Home CAN I ADD HTML TO MY ANSWERS Rating 0 ma Yes you can add HTML to the answers box a so you can add links as welll Uh oh C55 Issue Easily Fixed EDIT This section looks at how you can tweak the Cascading Style Sheets CSS to suit your theme Tr t The instructions here will suit most non technical Dashboard _ users of FAQ Tastic If you know how to amend _ your CSS as well as have access to files using FTP Ae 7 J you may want to skip this section and just read the FAQ Tas
27. multi At Knowledge Constructs we understand that not alg need one FAQ for beginners and another one for ad If you need to create several different FAQ s for ea Question Groups Ewery question and answer must belong to a Questiy administration interface Tastic allows two ty 1 Simple Question amp answer is displayed ong 2 Paged Questions appear on one page with Mote Perfect for creating additional keyword targetted c 8 The next bit is where the real fun begins Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 7132 version 1 0 gt FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin SEE MANeA KNOWLEDGE Question Groups But before we begin it s probably a good idea to understand what Question Groups are in FAQ Tastic and how they work What is a Question Group Quite simply it s a group of questions Okay maybe that s too simplistic FAQ Tastic is a multiple FAQ builder That means that it s possible for you to create more than just one FAQ on your site For example Suppose you had a website about cats and you d divided it into nice sections on cat care cat grooming cat health cat problems and another section on cat feeding Well you wouldn t want the same FAQ for all of those sections would you So basically FAQ Tastic helps you to create Question Groups so you can separate out your FAQs into logical an
28. n should give you a screen like the one below 1 neal ca question I Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 11 32 2 KNOWLEDGE _ How do add a question to FAQ Tastic l select all delete selected Add Question FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin 5320s version 1 0 Pending Questions amp Groups eee Help Your question has been created and added to the end of the list Questions for simple Questions can be re ordered by dragging and dropping Search Editing Questions and Answers entry i Now that you ve successfully added a question and answer let s have a look at how you can edit the Click on the new question that you ve added The Question textarea allows you to amend the question This is useful for long user submitted questions The Answer textarea helps to change and update your answers Author email is an optional field that is provided if a user supplies this information The Positive rating can be changed or reset if ratings are l Editing Question Question How do I add a question to FAQ Tastic ANSWED voy simply use the Question and Answer fields une al FAQ Tastic Positive rating oo al rating EM 520 core select all delete selected Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tasti
29. nd Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 26 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin SEE maNu KNOWLEDGE i ag Hea Messages 1 The Thank you message textarea box is used for providing the message when a visitor asks their question on your site Thank you message Displayed when a question is lt div id fag class thanks 73B16B color green paddi lt p gt Thanks for submittig lt p gt Your question has amp reviewed and answered at ad 2 The Failed message textarea is something that I still can t work out No really we built that and I ve got to ask John why it s correctly submitted there Failed message qiy id faq class thanks 4 Displayed when aaa color red padding Spx gt 4 3 If you have Ratings enabled on Cn ERS lt o2Thanks for submitt your Question Group you can lt p gt Unfortunately youri change the Rating message enough information Please tf 4 lt div Rating message Thanks for your vote E Displayed when a question is rated Click on the Save button when you are happy with the changes ao Email Options Email Options Dae _ FAQ Tastic can send out emails to your site visitors if they have _ provided a valid email address The options for your email _response can be changed under the Email Options section Approved simple Thank you f question
30. oin Project FAQ World 2 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin Semanu KNOWLEDGE About FAQ Tastic One of the common misconceptions about FAQ Tastic is that it is an FAQ builder for WordPress It isn t It s actually a multiple FAQ builder for WordPress It helps users to create as many FAQs as they need FAQ Tastic can create FAQs on a per section basis and so provide perfectly tailored sets of questions depending on each subject area Cool huh About The Creator of FAQ Tastic and this User Manual Zain Bador is a freelance WordPress SEO Expert and WordPress Theme Developer NLP Master Practitioner part time Child Wrestler and part time single father Having spent the last year studying Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing in StomperNet as well as being a student of Rich Schefren and Stephen Pierce Zain came up with the idea of FAQ Tastic after failing miserably at trying to find a decent product on ClickBank and making a massive 10US on marketing a tattoo eBook Sadly the exhilaration of actually being able to sell a product was marred when he realized the true cost of the PPC campaign that he d left running on Google Adwords After some deliberation and hiding away for a few weeks from the psychological trauma caused by losing vast sums of money lost in an area he didn t feel comfortable with Zain decided that bui ding a product was much better than trying to become an affiliate
31. on 1 0 On the Pending screen scroll down past the Kitten Protection section The Pending Questions section will list all the visitor submitted questions Pending Questions all have a pink background The checkboxes on the side can be used to delete any unnecessary or already answered questions however we d recommend rejecting the user question see below 3 Author email ycor icanaskquestion corm o i a Decide later K Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Click on the question that you want to view and approve reject Use the Question textarea to edit the visitor submitted question This is useful if you need to shorten the question Add you answer in the Answer textarea The Message textarea is used if the visitor provide their email address A message is sent together with the default message configured under the Options screen If the visitor has left their email address then it will be visible in the Author email field Click the Approve button to save changes made to the questions and answers Alternatively you can Reject the question Again the Message will be sent to the visitor if they have provided their email address Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 24 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin YEE MANo KNOWLEDGE 9 The approved answer will now appear with a green bac
32. ons as to how to make the plugin even better Unfortunately maintaining and constantly updating FAQ Tastic to keep up to date with changes in WordPress as well as building in new features all come at a cost A real physical cold hard cash cost It also comes with a cost of time for example this exceptional User Manual took more than 5 days to produce in terms of getting every screenshot and detailing every single step required We do this to provide YOU with the best experience possible and to make things as simple as possible In short we ve saved a great number of people time and effort simply by providing this plugin At Knowledge Constructs we would like to continue to maintain our exceptionally high standard and keep on enabling everyone who uses WordPress the ability to create simple and fantastic FAQs for their site But to do this we really need your help There are 5 things you can do help keep FAQ Tastic free for everyone Donations By far the best thing you can do is to make a donation Every dollar pound euro pick your currency counts A small donation whatever you can afford has an impact and helps out by helping us to build YOU a better plugin We ve already got some other features we d like to build in but can t help us to make this a reality Click on this link and make a donation to FAQ Tastic Lite now Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Let s face it FAQ Tastic is excellent It probably does a lot mor
33. oup Questions Pending questions 4 fr Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite l 9 Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro N J Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World bei 10 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAQ Plugin Sezo KNOWLEDGE 2 A confirmation window should pop up like the one you see on http ffag tastic com the right Click on OK if you want to delete the group otherwise click on the Cancel button Manually Adding Questions 1 On the new Question Group that you re et have just created should be a link with Search Fer page 25 w O questions Questions Pending Click on this link to start Adding questions EA 7 You should now be on a new screen edit questions 2 To add your first question to FAQ Tastic just type Add Question the question into the textarea labelled Question on the page Question is automatically approved and will 3 Provide an answer to the question in the textarea labelled Answer Question How do I add a questio 4 Clicking on the Add question button will automatically save both the question and answer to your Question Group Note After setting up your shortcodes on a page see later manually added questions and answers like this will be immediately available to see as soon as you click on the Add question button ANSWer You simply use the Ques FAC Tastic 5 Successfully adding a questio
34. s silently weeping An eerie dark mewing as they lament They ma simply a request for Donations to faith in hoomin kindness help pay for the development cost of the plugin Te floods of tears they cai a ot Teh een dq FAQ Tastic is a commissioned plugin Hate tehm ebel mean hoomins be telling them There they _ we hired someone to build it and well Hawe faith little oo not all teki hoomins be Dad it s kept free by the kind donations a made by users of our plugin As you can see by this User Manual we produce high quality work and this takes time effort and real cash to do Please consider making a donation Alternatively consider buying FAQ Tastic Pro an upgraded version of this Lite version Can Kitten Protection be switched off Yes Most definitely P Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 23 32 KNOWLEDGE Answering The Question e Pending Questions You can directly add questions from the question e simple Can users ask questions w3 select all delete selected e simple Editing Question Question can users ask questions ANSWeI ves they can It s very simple and t Message Thank you for your question about Text to add to jon my website go check it out approval or rejection FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin USER MANUAL March 2008 versi
35. t FAQ Tastic Pro Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 31 32 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin 552 m4Ne KNOWLEDGE Acknowledgements The following people have contributed and helped in the development of FAQ Tastic Lite and FAQ Tastic Pro both directly and indirectly I d like to thank my two wonderful and beautiful children Emily and Sam thank you for the love and passion you bring to my life To my late father peace be upon him to whom I am forever thankful for playing the devil s advocate and enabling me to realise the power of well reasoned questions Terry Elston NLP World Managing Director Business Coach Mentor and a very good friend Terry s excellent NLP Practitioner Training Master NLP Practitioner training and help as a business coach provided the necessary positive approach to complete FAQ Tastic and this user manual Without his faith in my abilities to produce excellent high quality work I very much doubt you d be reading this Dave Taylor StomperNet faculty member who s website AskDaveTaylor com provided the original inspiration for FAQ Tastic although he probably doesn t realise it Dave s authority site on Tech Support enabled me to realise the real power behind simply answering questions I would also like to thank him for his site being on TypePad mainly because if he d been on Word
36. t a href lt ph bloginto name 2 lt ae lt hl gt Update File 6 lt style gt USER MANUAL FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAD Plugin oes version 1 0 Theme Files Templates Comments COomments php Popup Comments OMMents popup p n p Footer footer p h p He l header php Mai dex Template Fa Pa d ch Tu L 2 index php Sidebar side I bar php You should now be looking at the code for the header php file for your theme Tip BACK UP YOUR CODE Simply select all of the code copy and paste it and save it in a text file Scroll down through the code and and look for the lt php wp_head gt function Depending on your theme it may be just above the closing lt head gt tag Make a space between the lt head gt tag and the lt php wp_head gt function and add the following code lt style gt stad salt 4 background color 000 If you don t know what Hex Colours are then you can just do a Google Search or click here Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 19732 version 1 0 FAQ lastic Lite WordPress FAO Plugin YEE MANo KNOWLEDGE 6 Click on Update File and you re done Things to check lt php wp_head gt and lt head gt are still there Go back to your FAQ Page and hit refresh you shou
37. ternal site structure as well as helping with ranking well in organic search results like in Google Since the questions Write P ace lt collected by FAQ Tastic are asked by real site visitors instead of or assuming what users want answered this improves the overall quality of questions appearing on a site and also helps the site owner Title provide focused answers Let s look at how you build one Ellpaged FA Permalink http fai _Creating A Paged FAQ Page The way that a Paged Question Group works is that it needs to have a page to attach itself to before it can create the child pages for the Page answers So before we create a Paged Question Group we need to set up the parent page this is done by creating a page in the normal way in WordPress and in this section we ll look at adding the code to the page f so it s immediately ready for publishing questions Here s how it s done 1 Log into your WordPress administration area and click on the Write link on the main menu 2 Click on the Page sub menu link Add a title for your page 4 Inthe WordPress Visual Editor add the following code to your new page faq list name Where name is the name of your Question Group that will be created later on Make a note of this name as we will be using it in a minute In this example we ve just called it paged but it can be anything as long as you use exactly the Same name later on when creating your
38. tic Word a Sheets E lugin Visit site E 1 Log into your WP Administration area and lt section on where to find the FAQ Tastic Style click on the Design link at the top on the A main navigation menu Write Manage Design Comments After the page has loaded click on the Themes Widgets Theme ng Theme Editor sub menu link o o Okay at this point if you re worried that Current Theme this is going to be difficult and only something a Developer should be doing then let me assure you that it s very simple to do WP20 TEST Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tastic Join Project FAQ World 18 32 KNOWLEDGE 3 You should now be in the Theme Editor screen Click on the Header link on the right hand side of the screen Note for Advanced Theme Developers We recommend embedding these styles into the Header file instead of the style css file as there is no guarantee that the call to the wp_head function comes before your main CSS file If wo_head comes after the call to your main style css file then the new styles will not override the FAQ Tastic CSS link rel pinghack Href 2 lt php wp get archives type mon 4 eee comments popup scrip lt style gt Lag alt hackqround calar 000 al lt style gt lt body gt lt div id rap gt lt div id top gt hl id header gt l
39. ttens _ thereby swear that Iam a good leech freeloader tight in the wallet FEB ouestion Order Ey position a 3 You can control how FAQ Tastic displays your questions By default questions are displayed By position or how they appear in the Question Group list You can change this to order By rating so that they will appear depending on the popularity of the questions 2 Did you make a Donation If so use this checkbox to switch off Kitten Protection a k a CAT Tastic Remove FAQ Tastic Remove FAQ Tastic This option will completely remove FAQ Tastic including all data and settings Remove w Unlike other WordPress plugins we believe that if you really want to get rid of a plugin you really want to get rid of it You don t have to worry about redundant information in your database which sits there for years FAQ Tastic cleans up after itself and will clear the database of ALL data and settings if you use this option 1 To clear your database of FAQ Tastic completely just use the Remove button Special Tags When formatting your email messages you can use the following special tags to help customize the outgoing response e question The question e s answer The answer e message Approval or rejection message e page The URL of the answer only for paged questions Help Support FAQ Tastic Lite Make A Donation Tell A Friend Upgrade To FAQ Tastic Pro Promote FAQ Tast
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