Steve Grunwell

Van Patten Media

It’s common practice for digital agencies to build a WordPress site/theme then simply hand it off to the client for day-to-day updating. The developers work hard to strike a balance between replicating the designer’s vision and making the theme easy for the client to use. As the design becomes more complex the developer faces questions: Will the client remember to wrap this in a <code><blockquote></code>? Can we count on the content manager remembering to add <code>class="btn"</code> to that link?
It can be equally frustrating from the client side. You don’t want to deal with learning HTML but you want your content to look just as well formatted as the stuff the agency put in at launch. The agency sent over a formatting/style guide but it never seems to be around when you need it.
WP Client Reference attempts to solve these problems by embedding client documentation directly into WordPress. Now agencies can include style guides, tutorials, FAQs, and more without worrying about content managers on the client side not knowing how to format that complicated call-to-action. It’s also useful for any type of team to keep track of information (with versioning) right within WordPress.
<h3>Special Thanks</h3>
Thank you to duckgoesoink for catching the Knowledgebase/User conflict fixed in 0.41.

WP Client Reference

Create a reference guide for clients right in the WordPress administration area.

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.

WP Client Reference vs DocuPress