Alex Hedström

DevDocs is a WordPress plugin for publishing clear, organised developer documentation on your site. It gives you a documentation page with a collapsible sidebar for browsing sections and a main content area for reading articles.
Key Features
<ul>
<li>Documentation articles and updates — Publish help articles and version updates in one place.</li>
<li>Organised sections — Group your content into folders and sub-folders for easier browsing.</li>
<li>Sidebar navigation — Visitors can move between the overview, sections, articles, and changelog from one menu.</li>
<li>Instant search — Quickly find articles from the sidebar as you type.</li>
<li>Mobile-friendly layout — The documentation view works cleanly on smaller screens.</li>
<li>Welcome screen — Show an introduction, helpful topic cards, and your latest update before a visitor opens an article.</li>
<li>Changelog timeline — Display product updates in a clear version-by-version timeline.</li>
<li>Custom colours — Match the documentation area to your brand with built-in colour settings.</li>
<li>Full-page layout option — Display your documentation in a distraction-free full-browser view.</li>
<li>Article guidance — Help readers stay oriented with breadcrumbs, last updated dates, and previous/next article links.</li>
<li>Manual ordering — Choose the order in which articles appear inside each section.</li>
<li>Translation-ready — Includes English language files and a translation template for other languages.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Documents</h4>
Add your documentation articles in DevDocs and assign them to one or more Topics so they appear in the right place in the sidebar. Use Order if you want to control which articles appear first.
<h4>Topics</h4>
Use Topics to build your sidebar structure. You can create main sections and place sub-sections inside them, then use Order to control how they are listed.
<h4>Changelog</h4>
Each changelog entry supports: 
* A Version Number and Release Date. 
* A summary description. 
* Update items grouped as Added, Changed, Fixed, Removed, Deprecated, or Security.
<h4>Settings</h4>
Navigate to DevDocs → Settings to configure:
<ul>
<li>Documentation Page — The WordPress page that renders the docs layout.</li>
<li>Documentation Name — Label shown in the sidebar header.</li>
<li>Welcome Heading / Message — Text displayed on the overview screen.</li>
<li>Show Topic Cards — Toggle topic card grid on the welcome screen.</li>
<li>Show Latest Update — Toggle the latest changelog snippet on the welcome screen.</li>
<li>Full Page Mode — Expand the documentation into a full-browser layout.</li>
<li>Color Scheme — Choose the colours used across the documentation area.</li>
</ul>

DevDocs

Developer software documentation with folder-based navigation, changelog tracking, and customizable color schemes.

wpseek

The 20th of June 2009 was the day when changelogs found their way into readme.txt files of plugins in the WordPress plugin repository. Thanks to Peter Westwood und Mdawaffe a new version of the readme.txt example file was available online that had an example of the changelog in action.
For many many people a changelog is a very important thing; it is all about justifying to your users why they should upgrade to the latest version of a plugin. Changelogger shows the latest changelog right on the plugin listing page, whenever there’s a plugin ready to be updated.
Note: The inline changelog on a plugin update shows up if the plugin author added a changelog section based on the new <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt" title="readme.txt example file" rel="ugc">readme.txt example file</a> to their plugin’s readme file.
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Included languages:
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German (de_DE) (Thanks to me ;-))</li>
<li>Romanian (ro_RO) (Thanks for contributing romanian language goes to Juergen Toth)</li>
<li>French (fr_FR) (Thanks for contributing french language goes to Mehdi Kabab)</li>
<li>Polish (pl_PL) (Thanks for contributing polish language goes to Daniel Fruzynski)</li>
<li>Belorussian (be_BY) (Thanks for contributing belorussian language goes to FatCow)</li>
<li>Bulgarian (bg_BG) (Thanks for contributing bulgarian language goes to Dimitar Kolevski)</li>
<li>Ukrainian (uk_UA) (Thanks for contributing ukrainian language goes to Michael Yunat)</li>
<li>Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) (Thanks for contributing simplified chinese language goes to 斌果)</li>
</ul>
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<h4>Licence</h4>
This plugins is released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog.

Changelogger

I search a plugin for add a direct link to the changelog, here it is better !



Good idea

Changelogger shows the latest changelog right on the plugin listing page, whenever there's a plugin ready to be updated.

DevDocs vs Changelogger