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WP Help

Site operators can create detailed, hierarchical documentation for the site's authors, editors, and contributors, viewable in the WordPress admin …

By Mark Jaquith·Docs·Free
4.8(54 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, WP Help is a WordPress docs plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 54 reviews. It has been downloaded 288K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: BetterDocs – Knowledge Base Docs & FAQ….

4.8/554 reviews
10K+active installs
288K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011

Overview

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. Never send another “here’s how to use your site” e-mail again!

NEW: You can now pull in help documents from another WP Help install, and they will be automatically updated when the source documents change (even additions and deletions!). Perfect for WordPress multisite installs, or consultants with a large number of client installs.

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.854 reviews
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Recent Reviews

This is great!
by Morten Ellegaard Larsen·12 months ago

For an agency delivering a lot of websites for users with little or no knowledge of WordPress, this is a gem!
I can combine general docs from a central hub, so I only have to maintain it one place, with local docs for the customized functions.
It’s simple, but I can use most blocks in the help documents.

Doesn’t work on Siteground hosting due to sever-level security rule
by Brian Shim·1 year ago

I noticed that the images, CSS, and JS files were not loading properly (had 403 error) in the admin page for this plugin for my sites on Siteground hosting, so I contacted Siteground. Long story short, they have a security rule which blocks the WP Help directory due to a previous security issue. Although the plugin will technically still work, the images and formatting will be messed up, and you can’t save your preference settings. If you get on chat with SG and get a ticket created, a senior dev can disable this security setting to get WP Help to work properly, but it’s kind of a big pain.

  • This topic was modified 1 year ago by Brian Shim.
Very Useful plugin – great for managed hosting
by corpconv·1 year ago

This is an amazing plugin – the kind of thing you don’t know you need. For managed hosting, it’s perfect. I’ve created help articles for clients on our own website and I can push them out to all our hosted sites – how to create a new post, how to add a user, how to add a page to the menu, etc. I can also tailor how-to docs to a specific website and add them just to that website. Best of both worlds.

Please keep this up – it’s saving me a ton of time and effort with client support. A+

Used for many years
by Knut Sparhell·1 year ago

This is one of the best plugins you can find. Does what is says, clean and nice. The sync feature is just elegant, bust also very useful. Good for anyone, and a must have for agents and their clients.

So helpfull!
by Cyrille Sanson·1 year ago

Congratulations on this practical plugin.

Make a habit of installing it at the start of a site’s development and add the important points for the site’s documentation as you go along.

Who hasn’t found themselves at a loss when returning to a site 3 months later, having forgotten why a particular extension was installed or a particular organisation chosen?

Download Trends

Today: 39Yesterday: 127This week: 448Period total: 25K

Compatibility

WordPress4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.7
94.3%
Other
5.7%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.7.0

  • Block Editor (Gutenberg) support
  • Video display improvements
  • Smaller build
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Mark JaquithMark Jaquith
Plugin Info
Version
1.7.5
Last Updated
Apr 20, 2024
WP Requires
4.9+
Tested Up To
6.5.8
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10K+
Downloads
288K+
Added
May 18, 2011
Business
Free

Tags

docshelpclientsclient sitesdocumentation

Developer

M
Mark Jaquith
29 plugins0.2M+ total installs
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