The Website FAQs are arguably the most important information and education resource on your website. The Website FAQ module consists of an archive that isn't totally unlike your standard blog archive - it is a dedicated resource full of all the FAQ posts you create. Each FAQ in the archive links to the FAQ post resource. As described in our FAQ Module overview, the FAQ archive includes a blog-style grid of all FAQs that link to the FAQ 'response' in full.
FAQ Styles: In tis article we don't include details on how to style your FAQ accordion, this is detailed in an FAQ titled "How to Create and Apply Styles to FAQ Accordions".
Your website is usually shipped with around 80 FAQs included in the archive, and depending on your level of access, we will routinely update your website with FAQs (automatically) as they become necessary (usually a couple a month).
Difference Between the FAQ and Blog Archive
A blog is an essential dynamic resource that details news, your own experience, trends, your subjective options, advice, and so on. It's dynamic, engaging and comes alive in the way it showcases your personality and brand. The FAQ module, on the other hand, is rather sterile in nature, addresses a 'response' without diverging too far away from the primary topic, and provides objective resources, such as external links. The two modules are diametrically opposed.
An FAQ can be as long or short as required, and the constant inclusion of material provides search engines with the content they're searching for, and borrowers with the answers that they need.
We'll link to FAQs via accordion-style panels within various pages. Related Blog articles may still be rendered in various formats, such as accordions or sliders. and these options are introduced elsewhere (a number of other content options are detailed in our 'Related FAQ' blocks towards the bottom of this page.
The FAQ Archive and Post
As mentioned, the FAQ archive and associated FAQ articles are not unlike your blog format, so the appearance and creation of articles is entirely intuitive.
Pictured: As mentioned, the FAQ archive and associated FAQ articles are not unlike your blog format, so the appearance and creation of articles is entirely intuitive. The highlighted inset in this image shows the FAQ article for Lenders Mortgage Insurance.
We're now going to look at how to create an FAQ and how to render that FAQ within your post or page with both Elementor and WordPress shortcode.
Creating an FAQ on Your Website
You may create an FAQ article via WordPress in the manner you're familiar or with Contentus, with the latter method unavailable at the time of writing (the link will become active when the module is made live).
To create an FAQ from within WordPress, you should navigate to the FAQ Post Type from the WordPress administration dashboard. The FAQ Post Type includes the Category and Tag options, and it's the Category that is most important - we use this to connected related FAQs together in the accordion.
Note: We may also use the Tags option to link related FAQ categories together, and this becomes a good shortcode-only option of connecting a subset of related FAQ articles.
Pictured: the Category that is most important - we use this to connected related FAQs together in the accordion.
We'll now create a new FAQ and assign it to the appropriate categories. Select the 'Add New' option and a post container will be returned that is no different to the container you're familiar with when creating a standard post. Do everything that you normally do, such as creating a title, slug, content, and featured image.
Particular care should be made when assigning the FAQ to Categories, as any post added to that specific category will render into the accordion block. For this reason, you might consider creating sub-categories for smaller blocks of related content.
Pictured: As mentioned, the FAQ archive and associated FAQ articles are not unlike your blog format, so the appearance and creation of articles is entirely intuitive. The highlighted inset in this image shows the FAQ article for Lenders Mortgage Insurance.
When we reference the FAQ Accordion, we will do so via the Categories that the FAQ article was assigned, and this action is detailed next.
Once again, anywhere the selected category is rendered in an accordion, the new FAQ will also be rendered.
Render FAQ Accordion With Elementor
To include the accordion, search Elementor for 'BM Website FAQ' (or just 'FAQ') and drag the block anywhere on your page. In the above example FAQ article we have assigned the post to the 'First Home Buyers' category, so we'll select this category from the Elementor options. Note that multiple categories may be selected.
Pictured: Search Elementor for 'BM Website FAQ' (or just 'FAQ') and drag the block anywhere on your page. Select the applicable category or categories from the select menu and the FAQ accordion will render.
The resulting accordion includes all articles assigned to the 'First Home Buyer' FAQ category.
Render FAQ Accordions with Shortcode
The shortcode is a little convoluted... but if you're using shortcode there's almost an expectation that you have an understanding of how they're used. It's the shortcode option we're currently using at the bottom of each of our own FAQs to render related content.
The shortcode to render FAQs in posts and pages without Elementor is a 'general purpose' shortcode, in that it'll return content of any type in an accordion. The article detailing the general purpose shortcode is introduced in an article titled "How to Render Posts into an Accordion with Elementor and Shortcode".
Shortcodes Can be Complicated: The full shortcode referenced in the above article is as follows: [bm_accordion cpt="faq" taxonomy="category" term="finance" field="slug" number="10" post_status="publish"] (this never-to-be-remembered string includes only a small number of the available shortcode attributes). The shortcode below is far easer to use.
The intended purpose of the shortcode shown above is to render FAQ content, so can exclude most of the attributes as they're defined by default, so our FAQ Accordion shortcode will look more like this: [bm_accordion term="finance"]
In order to render some FAQ blocks relating to our Category of 'Lender Data', we'll use the shortcode of [bm_accordion term="lender-data"]. The result:
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By default we've rendered the default website style, so you'll absolutely want to define a default style in Yabber. A default style is automatically applied when no specific style was defined.
Altering Accordion Styles
FAQ Accordion styles are detailed in an FAQ titled "How to Create and Apply Styles to FAQ Accordions".
Accordion Caching
All accordions are cached for fast retrieval. If an FAQ fails to immediately show your newly created FAQ article, you should update the 'Accordion' option in Yabber's cache tool.
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Related FAQ Module FAQs
The FAQ module is made up of Website FAQs and Yabber FAQs. Placement is managed via Elementor or shortcode, and full style options are managed in Yabber.
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