FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Creates beautiful, collapsible FAQ sections with SEO-rich structured data and smooth animations!

This powerful Joomla! content plugin allows you to create interactive FAQ sections directly within your articles using simple tag-based syntax. It renders collapsible accordion elements with smooth animations, fully based on lightweight vanilla JavaScript and custom CSS — no dependency on Bootstrap or third-party frameworks.

Ideal for knowledge bases, support articles, and structured information presentation, this plugin ensures both a clean frontend experience and full compliance with SEO standards, including JSON-LD structured data for FAQPage rich results.

Features

• Tag-based syntax: Easily add FAQ blocks using {faq}...{/faq} with {question} and {answer} tags inside.
• Structured Data (JSON-LD): Adds valid FAQPage microdata to the HTML head for improved SEO and Google rich results visibility.
• Multiple instances per page: Supports any number of FAQ sections within one article — they behave independently.
• Optional section titles: Use {faq title="Your Section Title"} to group related questions under a heading.
• Always-open mode: Let users open multiple accordion entries at once (alwaysOpen=true) or restrict to a single open item (alwaysOpen=false).
• Open first item: Automatically expand the first FAQ entry on page load.
• Smooth slide and fade animations: Clean and accessible transition effects for opening/closing FAQ items.
• Responsive scroll-to-behaviour: Automatically scroll to the clicked item with device-aware offset (mobile/desktop).
• Whitespace cleanup: Removes empty tags and unnecessary line breaks from the final output to ensure clean markup.
• UTF-8 and multilingual safe: Fully supports non-ASCII characters and multilingual content.
• No Bootstrap required: Works in custom templates or minimal setups without loading any external libraries.

Installation

Install Frequently Asked Questions with the help of the Installer component as usual. Then configure and activate the plugin in System -> Plugins -> Content - Frequently Asked Questions Pro - FAQ.

Usage

To create a FAQ section, simply use the following syntax in your article:

{faq}
{question}What is the purpose of this plugin?{/question}
{answer}This plugin allows you to create interactive FAQ sections in your Joomla! articles.{/answer}
{question}How do I install the plugin?{/question}
{answer}You can install the plugin through the Joomla! Installer component as you would with any other extension.{/answer}
{question isOpen}How to load the FAQ element opened?{question}
{answer}Simply use the "isOpen" parameter directly in the question syntax.{/question}
{/faq}

This will render a collapsible FAQ section with two questions and answers. You can add as many questions and answers as needed within the {faq} tags.

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Changelog

Latest release

Version 6.0.0.1-PRO - 2025-12-18

• + Added a safer text-field check to prevent exceptions when third-party extensions trigger content events with an incomplete/invalid article object (missing or empty $article->text).

Download

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