itthinx

<p><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> provides sound structures and tools to maintain a Documentation Management System based on WordPress.</p>
<p>Leveraging WordPress’ framework and internal structures, the system provides a completely new section to manage documents independently from normal posts or pages.</p>
<p>Documents are complemented by their dedicated document categories and document tags, which allows to keep the documentation structures separate from the more blog-oriented posts or CMS-like pages.</p>
<p>It can be used to build a dedicated documentation site, a subsite for documentation in a multisite network or other creative deployments.</p>
<p>See our <a href="https://docs.itthinx.com" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation portal</a> for an example where we use the system to maintain a considerable amount of documentation for our tools.</p>
<p>Simple to use, yet powerful to maintain even thousands of documentation pages.</p>
<p>Documents can be attached to products in WooCommerce using <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/woocommerce-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Documentation</a>.</p>
<h3>Widgets</h3>
<p>The plugin provides several widgets that are used to display document links:</p>
<ul>
<li>Document Hierarchy : facilitates navigating and viewing the document hierarchy</li>
<li>Document Children : displays links to children of documents</li>
<li>Documents : to display sets of document links</li>
<li>Document Categories : to display links to document categories</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<p>The following shortcodes are available:</p>
<ul>
<li>[documentation_documents] Lists documents, also useful to list documents in a category.</li>
<li>[documentation_categories] Renders a list of links to the document categories.</li>
<li>[documentation_hierarchy] Provides a means to navigate the documentation structure, equivalent to the Document Hierarchy widget.</li>
<li>[documentation_list_children] Lists the children of a document like the Document Children widget.</li>
<li>[documentation_search_form] Renders a dynamic search form. Use <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-live/" rel="ugc">Search Live</a> for a more flexible search form.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Recommended Useful Additions</h3>
<p>You should have a look at these tools. They will help you get the most out of this Documentation Management System.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/woocommerce-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce Documentation</a> This extension for WooCommerce and the Documentation plugin for WordPress allows to link documentation pages to products and display them automatically on the product pages.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/" rel="ugc">Groups</a> Groups is designed as an efficient, powerful and flexible solution for group-oriented memberships and content access control. Use it to control who can view documents and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/groups-restrict-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">Groups Restrict Categories</a> An extension based on Groups, provides access restrictions for categories and tags, custom post types and taxonomies. Very useful to restrict whole sets of documents based on their document categories or tags.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-live/" rel="ugc">Search Live</a> Search Live supplies effective integrated live search facilities and advanced search features. Makes it really easy to find the desired documents.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/widgets-control/" rel="ugc">Widgets Control</a> Widgets Control is a toolbox that features visibility management for all widgets, sidebars, sections of content and content blocks. This is very useful to show content and widgets in context.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.itthinx.com/shop/widgets-control-pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Widgets Control Pro</a> Widgets Control Pro is the advanced version of the Widgets Control toolbox that features visibility management for all widgets, sidebars, sections of content and content blocks. With its additional features, it is even more useful to show document-specific content and widgets, including the options to show widgets on documents and related pages only.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/decent-comments/" rel="ugc">Decent Comments</a> Decent Comments shows what people say. If you want to show comments along with their author’s avatars and an excerpt of their comment, then this is the right plugin for you. Use it to show comments posted on documents only or including them.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/open-graph-protocol-framework/" rel="ugc">Open Graph Protocol Framework</a> The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook. This will automate the process of adding basic and optional metadata to documents.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p>Please refer to the <a href="https://docs.itthinx.com/document/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> pages for details.<br />
The site uses the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/documentation/" rel="ugc">Documentation</a> plugin and is a good example of deployment, with an extensive set of documentation sections and pages.</p>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>Feedback is welcome!</p>
<p>If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the <a href="https://www.itthinx.com/plugins/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation plugin page</a>.</p>
<p>Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a <em>lot</em> of work into providing you with free quality plugins! Please appreciate that and help with your feedback. Thanks!</p>
<h4>Twitter</h4>
<p>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/itthinx" rel="nofollow ugc">@itthinx</a> on Twitter for updates on this and other plugins.</p>


Documentation

This has worked really well on my site - thank you for developing it!
Dan



Great plugin, thank you!

<p>This plugin displays all attachments from the WordPress database in the Document Links admin panel, divided into four categories: PDF, Word Docs, ZIP archives and Other. Within the admin panel,  you can select which documents you would like to appear, then configure the Document Links Widget and drag it into the sidebar.</p>
<p>You can place as many Document Links Widgets in the sidebar as you like which allows you to show different categories under different titles in the sidebar if you wis,h.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>You must be running <em>WordPress version 2.8 or higher</em>.</p>
<p>You must have a <em>Widget-ready theme</em> installed to use this plugin.</p>
<h3>Instructions</h3>
<p>This is a two-part plugin that requires you to define your settings in both</p>
<ol>
<li>The admin panel</li>
<li>The Document Links widget control panel</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>General description</strong>: The Document Links Widget allows you to provide download links to your Media Library files within your sidebar. This can be used for sharing white papers, instructions manuals, presentations or just general file sharing. You must have a Widget-enabled theme installed to use this plugin.</p>
<p><strong>File selection</strong>: In the admin panel is a list of all the files in your Media Library. Selecting or deselecting the files here gives you granular control over which files appear within each category. Use the Widget control panel to hide or show the categories.</p>
<p><strong>File names</strong>: To change the title of a file, edit the file name in your Media Library.</p>
<p><strong>Order</strong>: Display the results by upload date in ascending or descending order.</p>
<p><strong>File link icons</strong>: Selecting the show icons checkbox automatically places file icons next to the document links.</p>


Document Links Widget

This plugin allows you to list links to your Media Library files. Great for offering white papers or other document downloads on your website.

Documentation vs Document Links Widget