interfacelab

<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: This plugin requires PHP 7.1x or higher</p>
<p>The ILAB Docs plugin allows you to integrate help documentation for your WordPress theme or plugin directly<br />
into the WordPress admin.</p>
<p>Documentation is written in Markdown, with special extensions that make writing documentation in markdown easy.  These<br />
extensions allow linking to other markdown files, linking to admin pages, video embeds, displaying a table of contents<br />
and other features.  ILab Docs also has integrated search functionality for easily searching your documentation.</p>
<p>For examples integrating this documentation plugin with your plugin or theme, check out these examples:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Interfacelab/ilab-docs-example-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Example plugin with documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Interfacelab/ilab-docs-example-theme" rel="nofollow ugc">Example theme with documentation</a></li>
</ul>


WP Help Docs

Directly integrate markdown based help documentation for your WordPress theme or plugin into the WordPress admin for your end users and clients.

Bohemia Plugins

Jan Pencik

<p>Site operators can create detailed, hierarchical documentation for the site’s authors, editors, and contributors, viewable in the WordPress admin. Powered by Custom Post Types, you get all the power of WordPress to create, edit, and arrange your documentation. Perfect for customized client sites.</p>
<p>Highly inspired by the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-help/" rel="ugc">WP Help</a> plugin, Help Manager provides the same functionality, up-to-date compatibility with WordPress, and brings some of the most requested features by its users.</p>
<h3>🎉 Main Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Gutenberg and Classic Editor support</li>
<li>Improved drag & drop reordering</li>
<li>You can now link to other help documents</li>
<li>WPML support for multilingual documentation</li>
<li>RTL support</li>
<li>Easy import/export</li>
</ul>
<h3>⚙️ Admin Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Change admin appearance (menu title, menu icon, menu order)</li>
<li>Add a dashboard widget</li>
<li>Add admin bar link for quick help documents access</li>
</ul>
<h3>📙 Navigation Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Floating document navigation + automatic anchor links</li>
<li>Previous and next document links</li>
<li>Child documents navigation</li>
<li>Scroll to the top link</li>
</ul>
<h3>📝 Formatting Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Open linked images in a popup using <a href="https://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Magnific Popup</a></li>
<li>Responsive iframes using <a href="https://dollarshaveclub.github.io/reframe.js/" rel="nofollow ugc">Reframe.js</a> (e.g., YouTube videos)</li>
<li>Responsive tables</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔐 User Permissions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Specify admin users that can access plugin settings </li>
<li>Choose which user roles can add, edit and delete help documents</li>
<li>Choose which user roles can view help documents</li>
<li>Custom user roles are supported</li>
</ul>
<h3>🎨 Customization Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add custom CSS and modify document view to your needs</li>
</ul>
<h3>🚀 Roadmap</h3>
<ol>
<li>create an external hub that will allow you to synchronize documents between all your websites without any limitation</li>
<li>show help button conditionally on related admin screens and open help documents directly without the need to leave your current screen (inspired by <a href="https://www.helpscout.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">HelpScout</a>)</li>
</ol>


Help Manager

This is a simple but well executed plugin to add help docs to the admin area. Such a great tool for sites where the client will edit content. Thanks folks for your work on this! 100% recommended.

Super Helpful Plugin

Create documentation for the site's authors, editors, and contributors viewable in the WordPress admin and avoid repeated "how-to" questions.

WP Help Docs vs Help Manager