Create Helpful Hierarchal Documentation Directly Within the WordPress Dashboard

Creating and presenting documentation for a website or project can be quite a challenge. WP Help is a new plugin that gives you the ability to tap into the power of WordPress to create, edit, and arrange your documentation. It was written by WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith for the purpose of providing rich, hierarchical documentation within the WordPress dashboard for clients’ custom websites.

WP Help utilizes custom post types to help you organize your content in a way that is structured and readable, complete with illustrations and links, wherever needed.

One of the things I appreciate about this plugin is that it’s very clean, attractive and looks like it’s a native part of WordPress. Here’s how it appears, dropped into the new WordPress 3.2 dashboard:

WP Help is essentially like giving your clients a manual that they can access within their dashboard. No need to hunt through emails to find tutorials or spend hours on the phone explaining and re-explaining how to publish new content with WordPress. This plugin is guaranteed to save you time if you’re in the business of providing support for websites that you pass on to clients. Network-wide documentation within a WordPress multisite installation would also be a fantastic addition for an active blogging community, though that’s not yet included in this first release.

Providing documentation may quite possibly be the most boring aspect of your work. However, this plugin is bound to make it much easier to organize your documentation and present it in a way that is attractive and easy to understand. Download WP Help for free from the WordPress plugin repository.