Chris Malone

A lightweight plugin that tracks plugins, themes, and WordPress Core for updates, activations, and deactivations. 
The log is displayed on a Dashboard widget, as well as its own menu under Tools > CM Update History.

CM Update History

A lightweight plugin that tracks plugins, themes, and WordPress Core for updates, activations, and deactivations. The log is displayed on a Dashboard  …

Robert DeVore

DocuPress helps you create your own documentation directly within your WordPress dashboard.
Separate your articles into collections, making it easy for users to browse only the content they’re looking for.
<h3>Includes new Gutenberg block, widgets, and a shortcode</h3>
DocuPress includes a Gutenberg block to display your articles within the new WordPress editor.
Included block options:
<ul>
<li>Article Count</li>
<li>Display style (grid/list)</li>
<li>Display by Collection</li>
<li>Display or hide featured image</li>
<li>Display or hide excerpt</li>
</ul>
See the screenshots for various examples of the block in action
DocuPress also includes the <code>[docupress]</code> shortcode, making it easy to include a list of articles anywhere on your site.
Full list of shortcode options: <code>[docupress limit="99" collections="" order="" viewall="on"]</code>
DocuPress also includes 3 custom widgets:
<ul>
<li>Collections – output’s a list of every collection you create with DocuPress.</li>
<li>Recent Articles – select how many articles to display, randomize the output order and also choose which collection you’d like to display articles from.</li>
<li>Related Articles – select how many articles to display and randomize the output order in this widget that will only display when viewing a single article.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Translations</h3>
Currently, DocuPress comes prepackaged with the following translations:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Hindi</li>
</ul>
Please <a href="https://www.deviodigital.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">let us know</a> if there’s a language you’d like to see DocuPress translated to next.

DocuPress

Simple to use with a nice looking interface that blends in with the standard WordPress dashboard.

It would be nice if, in future, some extra features, specific for documentation, could be added. For example, an automatically generated index based upon content headings.

CM Update History vs DocuPress