Highly Recommended

I test-drove a few knowledge base plugins before deciding on Echo. It has a ton of features in the free version, plus reasonably priced add-ons. It was quite easy to set up and customize with everything from layouts to fonts and colors to the names of labels/titles. I like the built-in category icons, the nicely designed layouts, the way the sidebars work, and the fact that it came with demo data. Documentation is good. There are instructions to further customize it in a child theme using either hooks or template files (though the dashboard customizations are pretty thorough). I contacted support a couple times during the customization process to ask questions and their responses were quick and complete.

The only downside I’ve found so far is that it took a little while to figure out where the various settings are, and it’s still not 100% intuitive to me: some things are in the many settings menus, other things in the front-end page editor. I still have to click around a bit to find what I need, but overall I’m very satisfied.

My supervisor thinks I’m a genius. Thanks, Echo!