The Genesis Simple FAQ plugin uses a simple shortcode to display your FAQ questions…
[gs_faq]
This shortcode displays every FAQ question you’ve made. See a sample FAQ list here.
If necessary you can add some parameters to this shortcode giving you more control over the output.
The parameters
- The id parameter: each FAQ question has an id number.
- The cat parameter: each FAQ category has a cat number.
- The limit parameter: limits the number of FAQs displayed by a specific shortcode.
You can use id and cat parameters singularly or add comma separated list to the id or cat parameters to build custom FAQ lists.
Displaying a single FAQ question
The shortcode with a single id parameter added looks like this…
[gs_faq id=”12″]
This shortcode will display just one FAQ question, the question with the id of 12.
To find an id number go to Dashboard > Simple FAQs > All FAQs
Displaying a few specific FAQ questions
To do this we use a comma separated list of FAQ ids
The shortcode with a comma separated list of ids looks like this…
[gs_faq id=”12, 16, 22, 34″]
This shortcode will display the FAQ questions that have the ids of 12, 16, 22 and 34.
To find an id number go to Dashboard > Simple FAQs > All FAQs
Displaying all FAQ questions from a specific FAQ category
This shortcode will display every FAQ question that you placed in a single category. The number in the shortcode is the number of the chosen category.
[gs_faq cat=”10″]
You can use comma separated lists of categories if needed. The numbers are the numbers of the specific categories you want to display.
[gs_faq cat=”4, 5, 7″]
Finding the FAQ category numbers
Limiting the output to a specific number of FAQ questions
If you’ve made a lot of FAQ questions but only want to display the first ten, for instance. You can add the limit parameter to the shortcode.
[gs_faq cat=”10″ limit=”5″]
No matter how many FAQ questions are in this category, only the first 5 will display. Because we used the limit= parameter.
Where do you find the id and cat numbers?
To find the shortcode, including the id for a specific FAQ question…
- Go to Dashboard > Simple FAQs > All FAQs.
- Look under the Shortcode column.
You can find the shortcode needed to display any category by going to…
- Dashboard > Simple FAQs > Categories
- Then, look under the shortcode column