vicchi

This plugin allows you to refer to a WordPress shortcode within the content of posts and pages without that shortcode being automagically expanded by WordPress. The plugin takes advantage of the fact that the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress ShortCode API</a> does not support nested shortcodes to allow this plugin’s shortcode to wrap the shortcode being documented.
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The shortcode parser uses a single pass on the post content. This means that if 
 the $content parameter of a shortcode handler contains another shortcode, it won’t 
 be parsed
</blockquote>
The plugin supports both the self closing <code>[shortcode]</code> and enclosing <code>[shortcode]content[/shortcode]</code> forms and supports a short form name of the shortcode, <code>[wp_scs]</code> as well as the more verbose <code>[wp_shortcode_shield]</code> form. For the sake of brevity, the remainder of this documentation will use the <code>[wp_scs]</code> short form name.
If using the self-closing form of the shortcode, you need to supply the name of the shortcode you are documenting using the <code>code</code> attribute but without using the enclosing <code>[</code> and <code>]</code> characters. This is because when parsing shortcodes, WordPress looks for the first occurrence of the ‘]’ character to terminate the shortcode. As a result of this, usage such as
<pre><code>[wp_scs code="[another-shortcode-name]"]
</code></pre>
… WordPress will use the ‘]’ character inside the <code>code</code> attribute to try and terminate the shortcode name, which is not what is desired. Instead, the plugin automagically adds the terminating ‘[‘ and ‘]’ characters to the plugin’s output, so that usage such as
<pre><code>[wp_scs code="another-shortcode-name"]
</code></pre>
… will display [another-shortcode-name] in your post’s of page’s content.
If you are using the enclosing form of the shortcode, you can either supply the shortcode to be documented with or without enclosing ‘[‘ and ‘]’ characters; if they are omitted, the plugin will add them for you, so that usage such as
<pre><code>[wp_scs][another-shortcode-name][/wp_scs]
</code></pre>
… and
<pre><code>[wp_scs]another-shortcode-name[/wp_scs]
</code></pre>
… will display the same results, namely [another-shortcode-name].
Finally a note of caution, you cannot mix the enclosing and self closing form of the plugin’s shortcode within the same post or page; this is not a limitation of the plugin, but the way in which WordPress implements the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">ShortCode API</a> …
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The parser does not handle mixing of enclosing and non-enclosing forms of the same 
 shortcode as you would want it to. For example, if you have:
<code>[myshortcode example='non-enclosing' /] non-enclosed content [myshortcode] enclosed content 
 [/myshortcode]</code>
Instead of being treated as two shortcodes separated by the text ” non-enclosed content “, 
 the parser treats this as a single shortcode enclosing ” non-enclosed content [myshortcode] 
 enclosed content”.
</blockquote>

WP Shortcode Shield

Allows posts and pages to easily document WordPress shortcodes without the shortcode being expanded.

mathieuhays

This plugin helps webmasters/developers to provide documentation through the wordpress dashboard.
This plugins allows you to share 4 types of content:
<ul>
<li>“Link” It is a simple link with a custom title and url which will open in a new tab</li>
<li>“Video” Allow you to put an embed code from websites like Youtube, Vimeo, ScreenR (all the ones which gives you iframe based code)</li>
<li>“Quick Note” This a short text which intend to help by giving a short tip! (for longer content use Links!)</li>
<li>“File” Upload a file to the wordpress installation and display the link. (The file link can be filled manually if you upload content by FTP).</li>
</ul>
As an administrator, you can add, edit or remove content, choose the number of items displayed per page in the widget, the targeted backend user role and customize the widget title and welcome message.
Backend Users and Administrators can pin items to highlight them.
I’m currently working on rewriting this plugin from scratch in order to improve its reliability and make it easier to maintain. Thanks for your patience.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Multisite support</li>
<li>Import / Export</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German (thanks to <a href="http://alexander.pfabel.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Alexander Pfabel</a>)</li>
<li>Spanish (thanks to <a href="http://sugartoys.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Sugartoys</a>) (adapted from version 1.1.x)</li>
<li>Serbo-Croatian (thanks to <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Borisa Djuraskovic</a>) (adapted from version 1.1.x)</li>
<li>Dutch (thanks to <a href="http://www.funsite.eu" rel="nofollow ugc">Gerhard Hoogterp</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
You can submit issues and pull request on <a href="https://github.com/mathieuhays/Simple-Documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>

Simple Documentation

This plugin helps webmasters/developers to provide documentation through the Wordpress dashboard.

WP Shortcode Shield vs Simple Documentation