WP Knowledge Base Theme

by iPanelThemes.com

Finally a free and open source knowledge base theme made specifically for WordPress. Uses twitter bootstrap for rendering UI components and some other open source elements for rendering niceness.

Released version 1.5.1. Download the release and upload it as a WordPress Theme.

Acknowledgement

Before we dive into the cool features of this theme, let's take a minute here to acknowledge all the tools that were used during the development of this theme.

Underscore Starter Theme: The basic theme framework.
Twitter Bootstrap 3.0: Nothing would've been possible without this.
Icomoon Icons: Along with Glyphicons, we've included icomoon for more icons.
Sticky-kit: A little forked version of it to provide the affix widget.
wp-bootstrap-navwalker: A little forked version to generate the top nav.
Google Webfonts: Particularly, Oswald & Roboto Fonts are used.

Features

Awesome bootstrap 3.0 UI all over the theme.
Easily manage multiple knowledge base with categories and posts and nothing else.
Nice and fine user experience for your customers.
Add custom images and icons to categories or knowledge bases.
Completely responsive structure, thanks to Bootstrap.
A nice dynamic homepage featuring all your knowledge bases.
Individual category archives for featuring single knowledge base.
Nice looking archive page for child categories with post featured images.
Affix widget and social widget.
Compatibility with a number of bootstrap plugins.
In built compatibility with a number of other plugins. (See recommended plugins).
A nice and small footer to show off.
Bootstrap navigation menu with custom-header image as logo.
Custom 404 page! Check it.
Integrated SEO support with BreadCrumbs (Rich Snippets) and third-party plugin integrations.
and so on...

Documentation

Comprehensive documentation on how to use this theme is available at this link.

Live Preview

Check our own Knowledge Base.

Core Components converted to bootstrap UI

Home Page
Category Pages
Subcategory pages
Comments
Next/Previous Posts links
wp_link_pages pagination
Search bar
Navigation

About this repository

This will always be the cutting edge development version of the theme. Pull requests are more than welcome.

Included Widgets

Affix Widget
Social Widget
Knowledge Base Widget
Popular Knowledge Base Articles

Included Sidebars

Knowledge Base Sidebar on individual posts and category archives - ideal for affix widget
General Sidebar - on everywhere else - ideal for any widgets
Footer large (on left) - ideal for a short about us
Footer small (on right) - ideal for social widget

Compatible and Recommended Plugins

Easy Bootstrap Shortcode : Add shortcode functionality to output bootstrap components.
Category and Post Ordering : Reorder Knowledge Bases and articles.
Remove Category Base : Remove the /category/ base from permalink.
Syntax Highlighter Evolved : Put source codes on your post.
WP-PageNavi : Convert Next/Previous links on archive pages to paginations.
WordPress SEO : Complete compatibility with WordPress SEO by Yoast.
jQuery Colorbox : Put your images inside lightbox.
Advanced TinyMCE : Customize TinyMCE buttons.

Compatible and Recommended bbPress Plugins

Complete support is added to bbPress 2.4.1 and (hopefully) greater to host support related forums. Please read this post to learn more. Below is a quick list of compatible plugins.

Buddy-bbPress Support Topic Out of the box compatibility with styling and proper icons. Supports only the version 2.0.0 (currently in beta) or greater. Also adds a few more status to the plugin.
bbPress Pencil Unread Properly styled unread forums (highlighted icons).
GD bbPress Attachments For uploading attachments. Frontend output is properly styled.
GD bbPress Tools Various tools. Each of them are styled properly to match the theme.
bbPress - Canned Replies - Preset replies. Properly styled for enhanced visual experience.
Captcha The output on the bbPress registration and login page are styled.

TODO

Add Twitter typehead to the search fields for auto-completion

License

WP Knowledge Base WordPress theme, Copyright (C) 2013 iPanelThemes.com
WP Knowledge Base WordPress theme is licensed under the GPL.

This theme, like WordPress, is licensed under the GPL. Use it to make something cool, have fun, and share what you've learned with others.

Bundled Resources

Underscore A Starter Theme for WordPress - http://underscores.me/
License: Distributed under the terms of the GPL License
Copyright: Automattic, http://automattic.com/

Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com/
License: Distributed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license.
Copyright: Twitter, http://twitter.com

Icomoon Icon Packs - http://icomoon.io/#icons
License: Distributed under the terms of the GPL
Copyright: IcoMoon, http://icomoon.io/

Sticky-Kit - http://leafo.net/sticky-kit/
License: Distributed under the terms of the WTFPL
Copyright: Leaf Corcoran, http://leafo.net

wp-bootstrap-navwalker - https://github.com/twittem/wp-bootstrap-navwalker
License: Distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0+
Copyright: Edward McIntyre - @twittem

Google Fonts (Roboto and Oswald) - http://www.google.com/fonts/
License: Roboto font and Oswald font are distributed under the terms of the Apache License, version 2.0 and SIL Open Font License, 1.1 respectively
Copyright: Google Fonts, http://www.google.com/fonts/attribution

Changelog

Version 1.6.0

Updated to latest bootstrap 3.0.1
Added the optional theme for visually enhanced experience
Added complete support for bbPress. Now WP Knowledge Base Theme can serve purpose for support forum as well
Pages will now be with sidebar
Added a full-width page template
Fixed comment form bug on handheld devices
Improved default button and form styling

Version 1.5.1

Fixed site-title issue when not using image as header
Google webfonts will be enqueued respecting protocol (http or https)

Version 1.5.0

Updated to latest IcoMoon fonts which is now under GPL (thanks to @Keyamoon)
Better CSS localization for Icon Classes (prefixed with ipt-icon instead of just ipt)
Fixed comment template layout issue when viewed under small devices (comment textarea leaving a margin on left)
Fixed invalid href on a div element in Affix Widget
While using the rel property on the navigation menu for adding icons, it will not get added to the rel attribute and thereby produce incorrect HTML
Improved category archive page appearance (changed well to well-sm for better white-space usage)

Version 1.4.0

Updated the home.php to use default blog type layout
Added page templete (Knowledge Base Page) to populate the knowledge base appearance (see documentation to learn how to use this as the front page)
Added author information on single posts and author archive
Made two sidebars, one for Knowledge Base (categories and posts) and another general
Added comments to the pages (when comment is turned on)
Added copyright information to the stylesheet and readme.txt
Fixed long title overflow issue
Added a new popular articles widget
Added a new knowledge bases widget
Improved Comment form layout
Fixed header navigation bar collapsing issue

Version 1.3.0

Updated Theme name in style.css (respecting WordPress guideline).
Added compatibility for upcoming EBS Plugin.
Updated translations and a few translation bugs.

Version 1.2.0

Added article number information all throughout the pages.
Optimized footer appearance for handheld devices.
Added icons to empty results.
Repositioned popover to bottom for better appearance on handheld devices.
Removed small image on article list and added icon instead.
Added compatibility with Post Order Plugin.
Several other fine tuning (see commits)
SHA: 0aac9c67304ed506f300fcfa6c6aeba5e2e51746

Version 1.1.0

First Stable release
SHA: 8cf9a9ba94724e72d7ce599f24c71e58bb68c534
SHA: 336fcfc5debf109473d3d8d2a38c5b4e7f4af4d4
SHA: bd56c93b50cd93e6e55b8b9553d1e4b19e87bcc3

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