Installation




Before installing the extension, please make sure to Backup your web directory and store database


You will require to install MageDelight Base Extension first. If it is not installed then please download it from https://www.magedelight.com/pub/extensions/magedelight-base.zip and unzip the package file into the root folder of your Magento 2 installation.

Root Directory is - "app/code/magedelight/#YourExtensionName#"

  • Unzip the extension package file into the root folder of your Magento 2 installation.
  • Connect to SSH console of your server:
    • Navigate to the root folder of your Magento 2 setup
    • Run command as per below sequence,

      php bin/magento setup:upgrade

      php bin/magento setup:di:compile

      php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

      php bin/magento cache:clean

  • log out from the backend and log in again


If you are using Magento 2.3 or later then you do not need to activate license. Extension will be activated with silent activation mechanism and does not require activation keys to be entered manually.   


Backend Configuration (Admin side)


  • Enable product QA: Enable/Disable product question answer.
  • Enable generic FAQ: Enable/Disable generic FAQs.
  • Enable product FAQ for Guest: Allow guest customer to ask product question. If disabled, customer must have to logged-in to ask question.
  • FAQ layout: 4 types of layout available for generic FAQ.
    • Category grid view – to display only categories in grid view
    • Category list view – to display only categories in list view
    • Category and questions grid view – to display categories and questions in grid view
    • Category and questions list view – to display categories and questions in list view
  • Display author information – Provide author name and email (i.e. who is giving answers of the questions asked by users). Display author information below answers.
  • Display social links – If set to yes, then it would display Facebook, Twitter, Addthis (email a friend), Google+, WhatsApp, Pinterest and many more.
  • FAQ Link Title: FAQ page link title. Link will be listed in footer link sections.
  • FAQ Page Title: Define page title, and all other options will let you manage Meta data for FAQ page, like Meta keyword, description and FAQ link URL.

Backend Functionality


This extension will provide an option to manage product questions and FAQs. Customer will get interface to interact with merchant and ask his queries for product on product details page itself and merchant can replies to client queries, and if found any potential question merchant can make it visible particular question. Merchant can also manage frequently asked question for website and categorize them in different category.

Category

Under content management tab, you will find link FAQ category. It will allow you to manage FAQ categories to categorize frequently asked questions in different section. You can see category list, refer image below,

Create/Update FAQ category

Merchant can add or edit FAQ category with bellowed options.

  • Status: enable/disable particular category.
  • Title: Define FAQ category title.
  • URL Key: You can defined SEO friendly URL for category details page. If you don’t define, it will be auto generated based on category name.
  • Description: write small description of category. It will be displayed under category in generic FAQ on front-end.
  • Layout: There are different layouts available.
    1. Empty – Open up a plain page without breadcrumb, header and footer of the store. I.e. an independent page with category details only.
    2. 1 column – Open up a page with breadcrumb, header and footer of the store
    3. 2 column with left bar – Display category and questions in 2 columns and layered navigation on left side
    4. 2 column with right bar – Display category and questions in 2 columns and layered navigation on right side
    5. 3 column – Display category and questions in 3 columns
  • Image – Upload image to present category. This image will be displayed on category page
  • Customer Groups – select customer groups to access particular category.
  • Position: Set order number by which the category will be listed on FAQ page.
  • Store View: Admin can select store view, only for those websites/store views category will be available.
Design

  • General Option
    • Question margin bottom: set question margin from bottom in pixel
  • Title Option
    • Font size: Set font size of the question title
    • Text color: Set default text color of question(s) in the category
    • Text color (active): Set color on click of question
    • Background: Set background color of question(s) in the category
    • Background (active): Set background color on click of question
    • Icon: Set category icon class. (More icons can be selected from fontawesome.io/icons/)
  • Question Icon Options
    • Icon class:  Set icon class to display icons before each question
    • Icon class on active: Set icon class to change icon on question click
    • Animation type: select animation type from given options
    • Animation speed(s): set speed of animation in seconds

  • Question Title Border
    • Border radius: Set question border radius
    • Border color: Set border color (pick from color picker)
    • Border width: Set border width in pixel
  • Search Engine Optimization
    • Page title: Set category page title
    • Meta key words: Set meta key words to make SEO friendly page
    • Meta description: set meta description to make SEO friendly page
  • Questions in Category: Select questions to display in the category

Questions

This will let you create and manage questions for generic FAQ section or even for product section. Admin can reply answer to client’s question here.

Create / Update FAQ and product questions

  • Enable/Disable rule: Set whether to display question on frontend or not. Only enabled questions will be listed at frontend, if customers asked such question, that merchant don’t want to list on frontend. Merchant can reply to customer question but will kept it as disable so question wouldn’t be visible on site.
  • Question: Question for FAQ or product page.
  • Tags: Define tags of the question. This tags would get displayed on frontend which would help users to narrow down the search.
  • Question Type: question type can be Product Question, Generic FAQ or both.
  • Product Question: this question will only listed on product page for which products are selected. One question can be assign to multiple products. Refer screenshot below,
  • Generic FAQ: If question is created for site FAQ only, you have to select FAQ category for question to show question.
  • Both: This will allows you to create question for product as well as generic FAQs. So the question will be listed on both.
  • Category: Select category if question belongs to generic question type or lies under both question type.
  • Sort Order: Define sort order to show question in sequence on FAQ page or on product question list.
  • Store View: You can prevent questions to be visible for selected store views only.
  • Answer: Answer for the question. If question is asked by customer, there will be an option to send reply to customer. That will send email to customer with updated answer.
  • Like: Set number of likes (this counter increases automatically as user clicks on Like button from front-end)
  • Dislike: Set number of likes (this counter increases automatically as user clicks on Dislike button from front-end)
  • Most viewed: Set question as most viewed. This would display question under “Most frequently asked question” on generic FAQ page.

  • Question Author
    • Notify customer by email: On answering, notify customer by email
    • Created By: Provide name of person who has created question
    • Author Name: Provide name of person who is answering
    • Author Email: Email of person who is answering
  • Design
    • Please refer design section of the category, click here

  • Search Engine Optimization
    • Page Title: Provide title for the page
    • Meta Keywords: Provide meta keywords for the question
    • Meta Description: Provide meta description uo to 160 words
  • Products in question: Select the products related to the question

Frontend Functionality


Product Questions

This extension will add new tab on product page to list-down product question answer. Customer will get option to ask their query regarding particular products, also you will able to add frequently asked question of product here. Kindly refer below screenshot,

Customer can ask question or queries if admin allows. Admin can also prevent guest customers to asked questions.

Frequently Asked Question (FAQs)

If admin has enabled and configured FAQ page with extension configuration section, FAQ page link will be available in footer.

That link will bring us to FAQ page with listed all FAQ categories and question.

It also provides quick search option for question on the top.

Q&A Detail page

Customers can like/dislike answer and can share Q&A on their social media, too.

Demo


Click here to visit frontend.

Click here to visit backend admin panel.

FAQs


Click here to visit FAQs.

Support


Click here to raise a support ticket using your MageDelight account.

Additional Services


Click here to get the customized solution for this extension.



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