This members-only tutorial provides the steps to display Frequently Asked Questions grouped by categories in Oxygen.
We are going to
- register a `faq` Custom Post Type (CPT)
- register a `faq_category` custom taxonomy attached to the faq CPT
- enter the question as title and answer as the content for the FAQ entries
- load jQuery Collapse for the expand-collapse using My Custom Functionality plugin
- edit FAQs Page with Oxygen editor and use a Code Block with the required PHP, JavaScript and CSS.
In the PHP code, we shall retrieve the terms of the
faq_category
taxonomy, loop through them and write a custom WP Query to pull all
faq
entries that belong to that taxonomy and output them in a format suitable for jQuery Collapse.
Step 1
Install and activate Custom Post Type UI plugin.
Go to CPT UI > Add/Edit Post Types and add the FAQ post type.
Go to Add/Edit Taxonomies and add the FAQ Category taxonomy.
Attach it to FAQs.
In the Settings section, set Hierarchical to True so it behaves like categories and not tags.
Step 2
Go to FAQs > Add New and add your FAQ entries. Select the appropriate FAQ category and publish.
Step 3
Install and activate My Custom Functionality plugin.
Connect to your hosting account using a FTP client and navigate to site's wp-content/plugins/my-custom-functionality-master.
Upload jquery.collapse.js to the plugin's
assets/js
directory.
Edit
plugin.php
and replace the content of
custom_enqueue_files()
function with