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45% Improvement Suggestions come via Product’s Guide Page

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After a success purchase, most of the customers look for a handbook or guide or knowledge base to learn about using the product. Some of them may have questions related to the basic use of the product but some may have good suggestions. A real user of the product is the best source of input for a product. I am have a pretty good documentation of Documentor WordPress plugin but still people come with questions and even sometimes with eye opener feature request. In last few months, I saw most of the feature requests coming from the suggestion box embedded on the guide page. 5 out of 10 suggestions came from the guide page, rest came via support thread and direct email.

Once the user starts using the product, he starts facing challenges or starts expecting more out of the product. And if he finds certain mentions about the feature in guide, he jumps to the suggestion or feedback form and submit the request (if that kind of form is available). If you have seen the demo of Documentor WordPress plugin, you must have seen the suggestion box at the end of each guide or section. It allows visitors to fill up the form about the guide and ask the admin to either improve the guide page or the product itself.

Once you have the inputs from the visitor or probable customer, you can implement the same in product and get back to the user. Finally that inclusion of the feature will certainly convert a valuable visitor into a loyal customer and will eventually improve the product for existing users as well.

Similar suggestion form is also available in every Google product’s guide. The reason of having such form is same,

  • Improve the product guide page
  • Receive product improvement suggestions

My another site which is having premium WordPress sliders is also having guides created using Documentor plugin. I received many suggestions from existing customers or newbies via the suggestion box and it improved the slider products from all directions. Customers felt that we as a team heard their concerns and suggestion and improved the product.

Timely Inclusion of Customer’s Feedback and Suggestion is one of the main reason of success for Xiaomi, a leading mobile brand.

Highlight Text or Use Marker in Product Documentation

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Highlighting of the text or using a marker for any product documentation can be considered as one of the marketing strategy that will compel the visitors to read a particular text. It can be considered as an effective means that will summarize the information from the particular piece of content. It will surely help to bring more visitors to your site and thus diverting more traffic that is surely very beneficial. Most of the blogging websites or any other established website uses this technique that highlights the text with some background.

Note: Create Product Documentation or Technical Guide using WordPress

Benefits of Highlighting text or using Marker

  • Highlighted text helps to retain the information easily from the particular content.
  • It will help to bring more readers to your site rather than the plain text.
  • Helps to save the time of the readers instead of reading the whole content.
  • It provides a better experience to the user or readers.

Methods to highlight the text in WordPress:

There is no separate option or button available in the WordPress editor to highlight the text. This can be easily achieved through installing plugins and other approaches.

1) CKEditor for WordPress:

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CKEditor is the text editor that will be used inside web pages. This plugin will replace the default WordPress editor with the CKEditor. It also allows to post comments with CKEditor to provide styled as well as colorful comments.

2) WP Emphasis:

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This plugin is used to highlighting and permalinking text of the emphasis script. One need not set anything for this to work, tap shift twice and one can start highlighting the text.

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3) Through CSS:

If you are familiar with the code then you are able to highlight the text through the CSS code by following the below steps:

Step 1] You will need to create a class in the CSS file and give it a unique name say “content-highlight”

Step 2] Create a child theme and put the class (created from step 1) in the CSS file of the child theme.

.content-highlight { background-color:#FFFF00; }

Step 3] One can choose the color from the color picker and easily switch to text view in the WordPress editor and wrap the text in the way you want it to be highlighted in the following way:

<span class="content-highlight">… text to highlight …</span>

You are done by following the above steps.

4) Inline Styling:

It is also possible to insert the code into the post for the content that is to be highlighted. One can view the post in the text editor add add the below mentioned code.

<span style="background-color:yellow;"> … your text here … </span>

Though there is no separate option given to highlight the text in WordPress but the above ways will definitely help you to make your documentation approaching for the visitors and definitely come up with a good one.

Hope this article was really useful to you guys. And feel free to contact us if you find some more ways to highlight the text.  As there is a great saying that “Knowledge increases by sharing and not saving!“

How to Create a Good Product Documentation

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It is really hard to imagine and use a particular product without knowing how actually it works. It becomes very hard to shoot your query at the support each time and then one should wait for the support team to revert on the same. There are times when you are asked to wait in a queue for at least 2 days (approximately 48 hours). During such situations you are forced to delay the work unless the query is sorted. In order to avoid such situations that is affecting the growth of the company, it is always good to have a documentation of the product and all the queries will get sorted very easily by just referring to the documentation.

Types of Product Documentation:

  • Guides – Guides can be considered as a stepping stone in order to use a particular product.
  • Feature Documentation – It will list out all the features that are supported by the particular document along with the settings related to it.
  • Knowledge-base – Knowledge-base will consist of forums and frequently asked questions that are put forth by the visitors. Different issues along with the cause and resolution will be mentioned here.
  • SDK – SDK will contain the coding of the product along with its API. This documentation will be very useful for the developers.
  • Case Study – It will consists of various detailed documentation of how a product is implemented for different businesses in real life.
  • Internal Documentation – This documentation will be referred only by the staff members that will be used by the team for future development.
  • Marketing Documentation – This document will focus to attract visitors to your site, that will list out the cost and general features of the product.

When you are building a documentation for your website, it is very important that the documentation is categorized in the following way as mentioned above. It is very important that the documentation should cover each aspect of the product though you will find some of the aspects to be very simple. While writing a product documentation it is necessary that you should target to the newbies who are totally unaware about it.

Things to include for Product Documentation:

Depending upon the type of document that you are building, there can be different factors that can be included and those are:

  • Screenshots and Pictures – A picture or screenshot will help the visitors to understand the product in a better way as compared to the words. There are many visitors who will prefer to go through the images instead of reading the doc line by line.
  • Examples – In order to help the visitors to understand the product in a better way it is always good to include examples and that will also help them to relate with the situation.
  • Settings Flow – Instead of writing long paragraphs for a particular setting, one can include the flow for the settings of the product. For Example : Adding a Post in WordPress, you can give the flow as: Admin Panel >> Posts >> Add New
  • Documentation Update – Keep a check on the new features and modification that are added for the product. And accordingly there can be the changes that can be added for the documentation. If the changes for the document is not done than the visitors will keep on referring the old documents and will be confused.

Key Factors to be included for Product Documentation:

  • Installation Process – It is essential to start your documentation with the installation process that will be a great help to the clients.
  • Feedback from Clients – It is good to include the feedback and suggestion place for the visitors where they can suggest an edit for the document. This will help to represent the document in a better way.
  • Offline Reading – For the offline reading of the document, one can generate a PDF for it and can directly share with others for the offline reading.
  • URL for each section – The whole document can be divided into different sections and there can be different URLs for each of the section. Instead of reading the whole doc one can directly refer to the URL of the section and thus it will be time saving.
  • Simplicity – No one likes to read the long documents, one always prefers to have the document which are simple and easy to understand. Also it is good to explain each of the section point wise so that clients will find it easy to understand.

Besides the above mentioned points there are many product documentation plugins that will indeed ease your work and allow you to build a better documentation for your site.

Important Product Documentation Plugins:

WordPress provides with many of the plugins related to product documentation. They will indeed help you to create the online product documentation very easily. To list a few of them are:

Documentor: This plugin will help you to create an online product guide or the help document very easily. It allows you to add the sections and change the colors for them very easily. It will help you to publish a professional looking documentation with a very unique design.

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WP Documenter: One can create a documentation in a very easy way using this plugin. It will also allow you to create document’s single page template for the front-end. It provides with a draggable menu according to the section title that is used.

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Simple Documentation: It is one of the very important plugin for the product documentation that will allow the developers to provide documentation from the WordPress Dashboard. It also allows the backend users to pin the items in order to highlight them.

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Easy Documentation: This plugin provides with a built-in editor and a step wise instructions to add the content for the website. It is a good plugin for any non experienced users as it allows to create any of the document step wise.

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A good product documentation will indirectly help to improve the sales of the product, also there will be lots of errors and mistakes that will be avoided due to accurately written procedures. The above points and the documentation plugins will surely help you to write a good product documentation.

Build Single Page Knowledge Base with WordPress Document Management Plugin

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In order to provide with the efficient customer service to your customers there is a need to have a knowledge base for improving website’s usability and providing with a good customer service. No one will compromise in providing with a good customer service so there is a need to have a knowledge base tool that can ease the work.

There are different WordPress Document Management Plugin that are available in the market. But before making any choice that will suit with all your needs one should have the road map of all the features that one is looking for. To highlight a few of them:

  • Supporting all Content type:

It should support all the content type for the document. One should be able to include videos, images, PDF embeds, Google maps, tables and others.

  • Multilingual:

It should have the ability to translate the document into multiple languages.

  • Responsive:

The WordPress plugin needs to be responsive and should be supported with all the devices.

  • Multiple Sections:

For the particular guide one should be able to add multiple sections so that it can be easily distinguished.

  • Different Skins and Designs:

One should be able to customize and apply different skins and designs for the particular document.

  • Simple and Easy:

It should be simple to understand and one should be able to embed the shortcode and template tags easily to display it on the front end.

Considering with all the above features one is looking in order to build a knowledge base, this can be achieved through WordPress plugin Documentor.

Simple steps to build knowledge base with Documentor:

Step 1] In order to use Documentor the Documentor WordPress plugin is to be activated. After you have downloaded the zip file and added to the plugins folder go to:

Admin Panel >> Installed Plugins >> Documentor >> Activate

Ones the plugin is activated then you will find the Documentor option in the admin panel where the settings related to it can be done.

Step 2] Create a document from:

Admin Panel >> Documentor >> Create New

Enter the name of the guide and select the settings that you want to apply for the particular guide.

Step 3] According to ones need one can add different sections for the particular guide. There can be different settings that can be applied for the particular guide from:

Admin panel >>Documentor >> Manage >> Select the particular document >> Edit Section >>  Settings (Basic Settings, Formatting and Advanced Settings)

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One can enable or disable the Scrolling option from the settings so that when ever one clicks on the menu title content gets visible in scrolling effect.

Even the Load Sections using AJAX can be enabled for which only the active menu’s contents will get visible using AJAX.

From the Global Settings one is able to decide about the post types that will be supported for adding sections.

Step 4] In order to display the document on the front end, Shortcode and Template tags can be used for the particular posts and pages. This can be attained from:

Admin Panel >> Documentor >> Manage

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It will list out all the documents name along with the short codes and template tags that can be used for displaying it on the front end.

WordPress Document Management Plugin lessens the Paperwork:

The main purpose to have a WordPress Document Management Plugin is to reduce the paper work of the employees so that they can rely on it, to manage all the documents. It also brings lots of efficiency to their work and saves time. A Document Plugin with good features  is very simple to use and does not require much technical knowledge to understand it.

There is a saying by Pearl Bailey, “What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.” So find the one WordPress Document plugin that will meet with all your requirements and needs.

7 Ways to Easily Manage Already Published Documentation of Products

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After you have launched your product the first thing that you do after that is to write the documentation of the product so that the visitors can have a better understanding of the product. The main reason to write a document is to make it easy for the visitors to refer it anytime and at any place. This will indeed save the time of the visitors as well as the staff agents, as the visitor can directly refer the document so there will be no need for them to post the ticket in case of any query and wait for the response of the staff agent.

Common Mistakes People make after the Documentation of Product is done:

The very common mistake that people do is that, after they have written an article for the product they feel that they are done. Though they keep on updating for the features of the product but there are no changes that are made for the document of the product. There is no way in which the visitor can share their views and put forth their queries on the particular document. This indirectly effects the product in the below ways:

  • Effects the SEO
  • Clients are not able to get the update for the new features of the Product through document.
  • Visitors loose their interest as they also prefer reading new and updated content.
  • They will not find it to be engaging if there is no way to give the feedback or express the views for it.

7 Ways to Manage existing Documentation:

1) Keep on Updating your document:

It is always good to keep on updating with the new changes and the features that are been added for the product. This will keep your visitors engage and everyone likes reading a new and fresh content.

2) Feedback from the Visitors:

The best way to keep the visitors engage for your product is by including a feedback form where they can share their views and they will feel involved for the product offered. This will give the impression to them that the feedback from the client really matters.

3) Putting Like/ Dislike button:

Like/ Dislike button will give a chance for the visitor to share their views on the article that whether they liked the document or not. Also they will feel their involvement for it.

4) Social Media Sharing for Document:

Social Media plays a very important role in the present scenario. It is always good to include this social media buttons for the document.

5) Edit Suggestions by the visitors:

Visitors can also show their contribution for the document by suggesting their edits and ideas for the document. This will also help to present the document in a better way.

6) Keep on comparing your Product and Document:

It is always good to compare your product as well as the document that will attract more visitors to your site. Keep on changing the content of the product that will keep it up to date.

7) Updated Date:

It is a good idea to include the date when the present article is updated, this will let the visitors to know that the content they are reading is not out dated and it has been updated till date.

All these features are supported by Documentor plugin that helps you to create online documentation easily. The above ways will surely help to manage your existing article in a better way that will attract the visitors.

How a Good Product Documentation Improved Sale by 70% in Just a Month

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Launching a new product for your business involves the team work, hard work, efforts over months. No matter you are running a small business or a larger one there are lots of hopes and dedication for the same to excel. There are lots of factors that are incorporated to build a successful product. It is also very necessary to take a note of the targeted audience for the product, response channels and their expectations. It is indeed important to take into consideration the goals and objectives before the successful launch of any of the product.

Factors to consider when launching a Product:

  • Customers Needs and requirements
  • Unique Features of the Product
  • Easy to understand
  • Appropriate Cost
  • Good Support
  • Detailed Documentation
  • Building a Community
  • Marketing through different Social Media platforms
  • Strong Product Management
  • Easy to Customize

All these factors plays a very important role for building a good product but it may vary from business to business.

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                                                   Factors to build a Product (christianwig.com)

Though all the above factors plays a very vital role for the product. But I personally feel that Detailed documentation plays a vital role among all. It is one of the key factor that will also effect the other factors and definitely benefit you.

Product Documentation for a Product:

Product Documentation can be considered as a way or language in which the product speaks for you. It is in fact not easy for the support representatives to be around the customers when ever they have a query. There are times when the query is very simple to be sorted, but if they are not getting the timely response for it, there are higher chances for the customers to get frustrated and opt for some other product. So it is necessary to have an alternative so that the clients can go through it without contacting the support. This is the only one scenario that I have discussed but there might be different reasons that are pulling them back to raise their queries. In order to avoid all these problems, It is good to have a detailed product documentation for the customers to refer when ever they require.

Impact of Product Documentation for the Sales:

Being a representative of Slidervilla Sales team, how will the customers get a good user experience is one of the main concern for the Sales. Placid Slider is one of the very important product of SliderVilla that will help to display the responsive logo slider for WordPress with the scrolling images. Our team decided to include the documentation for the slider that will help the visitors to refer it in case of any queries. The documentation of this product was included in October last year. And believe me we have noticed a drastic change over the sales of the product in just 3 months. There was an increase of 40-50% Sales of the particular product. There are many who will feel that How can a product documentation improve Sales of the product? But it is true!

Role played by Product Documentation to improve Sales:

  • Allows the customers to access the information anywhere and anytime without relying on the support team.
  • Saves the time of the customers and also reduces the work of the Support team.
  • Helps in creating a good impression among the new customers.
  • Making the customer aware and familiar with the product.
  • When the query of the customer gets sorted easily than they will give a good feedback that will definitely attract more visitors.
  • It will help the customers to set up the product very easily that will help to avoid the errors initially.
  • If the document that is prepared is keyword rich than it will help to improve the SEO for it. It will also help to divert more traffic to your site.

Other Plugins to build a document for your site:

WordPress provides with many plugins that will indeed help you to create a documentation for your site very easily. To list a few of them:

Documentor: A plugin for the product document will help you to build a guide or the help document for your site very easily. There are different content types that are supported by this plugin that will help you to present the document in a better way.

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W3 Total Cache: In order to improve the experience and optimize the performance of the site than W3 Total Cache is one of the important plugin that is provided by WordPress. It will also help to improve the server performance by reducing the download times.

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Yoast SEO: This plugin will be very important to improve the SEO for your site. It will also help to have a better content and also fully optimized WordPress site. It will help you to select the focused keywords.

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VaultPress: VaultPress is one of the very important plugin to take back up of the site. There are different security scans that are performed by it, to review and fix the threats. It is one of the best plugin to provide security to your site.

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Depending upon the needs the plugins may vary, but the one which are listed above are some of the important plugins that will surely help you to build a better website.

Including a documentation for the product will definitely help to improve the sale of the product and you will see a vast change in the figures of the sale. There are also various product documentation plugins that are available that will indeed ease your work.  Documentation can be considered as one of the factor to increase the sales, besides this the marketing strategies that you build will also play a very important role for it.

How to Embed a Presentation Slideshow inside Product Documentation

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The key factor to write a documentation for a website is to make the visitors to understand your product in a better way. While writing a documentation one can include images, PDF, Video, Charts, PPT, Galleries etc. Including this things will definitely help your visitors to understand the product and get their queries solved very easily. A Slideshow can be indeed very useful for the clients when they are referring the documentation.

Documentor WordPress Plugins will help to create the online product documentation very easily. One may include code snippets, videos, images, PDF embeds, Google Maps, Tables for their documentation. Also one can easily embed a presentation slideshow inside a Product Documentation by following the simple steps.

Simple Steps to Embed a Presentation Slideshow inside Product Documentation:

Step 1] In order to embed a presentation slideshow for the product documentation, Documentor WordPress Plugin and Embed Any Document Plugin is to be activated. When one has downloaded the zip file and added to the plugins folder go to:

Admin Panel >> Installed Plugins >> Embed Any Document >> Activate (To activate Embed Any Document Plugin)

Admin Panel >> Installed Plugins >> Documentor >> Activate (To activate Documentor Plugin)

Ones the plugin is activated then one will find the Embed Any Document option and Documentor option in the admin panel where the settings related to it can be done.

NOTE: There are various WordPress Plugins that are available, that can be activated to embed PDF, MS Office, documents on the WordPress site using Google Docs Viewer or Microsoft Office online. 

Step 2] In order to create the documentation go to:

Admin Panel >> Documentor >> Create New

One can create the new guide from this and there can be different sections that can be added for the particular guide and accordingly the settings can be added for the same.

Step 3] While adding a section for a particular guide there will be an option of Add Document that will be present towards the top besides the Add Media where the Slideshow can be added easily.

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While selecting the particular option one can easily upload the document, add its URL and easily add it from Dropbox, Drive and Box and then click on the Insert option.

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Step 4] After you are done inserting the Slideshow for the particular section then click on the Insert option that is present towards the bottom.

Step 5] One will find the embedded code for the particular guide from the Embed Code tab that can be used to display it on the front end.

Following the above simple steps, one can easily add a Presentation slideshow inside a Product Documentation that will be displayed in the embedded form on the front end.

8 Free WordPress Plugins to Create Product Documentation

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One of the important aspect to build a powerful website is to provide a good and powerful documentation to the visitors so that they can have a better understanding of the product. It is indeed very helpful for the visitors as well as the staff agents. The  visitors can refer the documentation help if they have certain queries and thus saving the time of the staff agents as well. Product Documentation can be considered as a key that will open the doors to all the questions that arises in the minds of the visitors. WordPress is the best website builder and in this article, I will list down free plugins to create product documentation using WordPress CMS.

Advantages of Product Documentation:

  • Visitors can access the information easily anywhere and anytime
  • Reduces the work of the staff agents as they will not have to answer the same question
  • Receive feedback from visitors to improve the guide and engage visitors
  • Useful  in SEO
  • Creates electronic version of the documentation that can be used to send electronic drafts.

Free WordPress Plugins to create Product Documentation:

This plugin helps to create online product guide or help documentation very easily on WordPress site. One can create and publish a profession looking documentation quickly with an elegant design and implementation.

Documentor Pro

Premium version of Documentor comes with following features

  • Create Multiple Guide
  • 5 Pre-designed ready themes
  • User Suggestion Box
  • Export to PDF
  • AJAX Loading of content
  • and lot many other features.

It is very responsive, number of sections can be added, custom links can also be added in table of contents, compatibility with WPML, Settings panel to change the colors and fonts and many more.

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It helps the site operators to create detailed, hierarchical documentation for the site’s authors, editors and contributors view-able in the WordPress admin. One can pull in help documents from another WP Help install and they will be automatically updated when the source documents change. It is perfect for WordPress multi-site installs.

WP Help

It helps to easily create documentation for any number of products, organized by product and by subsections within each product. One can easily use this to create instruction guides for anything. Documentation articles will have schema.org micro-data. It has documentation with a user-friendly structure for the visitors. It works on multisite WordPress installations as well as regular WordPress sites.

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It helps to create an attractive and professional knowledge base. It is very responsive and easy to use and customize. It also provides with integrated breadcrumb and super fast search. Compatible with all major browsers and devices. There is also custom ordering of articles and categories by drag and drop. This plugin copies the page template and related CSS into your active theme, one can edit those files to adjust the layout and design.

WP Knowledgebase

This plugin allows the WordPress bloggers to add step by step instructions to their site. The instructions can be quickly created and linked to corresponding images. It will be indeed a great help to simplify the online product manuals. This plugin helps to build tutorials, share knowledge and thus keeping traffic at your blog.

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It offers easy to use and configure and powerful panels to display FAQ, term definitions or any of the short content. It offers contextual coloring to highlight or group the related items. One can group and tag items to improve user adaptation and understanding. It also has an ability to set the initial state of any of the panel.

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One can easily add Knowledge Base or FAQ on any part of the WordPress site. One can easily assign categories and display it on up to Four(4) Columns in any part of your website. It creates shortcode using the plugin’s powerful shortcode generator with options to display per category, order by title or date, controls visibility and assign layout options. It is fully responsive and Browsers compatible.

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One can organize and create great looking documentation with this plugin. It helps to create Slick Documentation for anything. Also creating a topic/item to document with a sidebar menu. One can also attach a introduction page to each topic/item. There is an easy drag and drop that organizes Posts and Categories.

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These are some of the free WordPress Plugins that will help to create great product documentation and ease your work!

Cyber Monday and Black Friday 2015 Special 30% Discount on Documentor Plugin

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Knowledge base or Document is the best way that will describe your product in a better way with all its features and functionality. This can be easily achieved by the WordPress Plugin Documentor. It is indeed a great opportunity for all to grab this great plugin at a special Discount on account of Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale 2015.  This is the best chance to give a new look to the document of your website with this Plugin.

30% OFF on Documentor Plugin:

To mark the beginning of the Black Friday Sale we are offering 30% OFF on Documentor Plugin. This is indeed great chance for all those who were waiting for long to get a plugin like this and the thing that was pulling them back was the pricing.

Coupon Code for this offer:

To avail with this offer one can use the Coupon Code BF2015. You can also contact the Sales team in case of any queries and they will revert you on this.

Validity of the Coupon Code:

This great deal ends at Dec 2 2015.

Don’t miss this great deal and get your plugin now to represent your document in a better way for your website!

Auto Generating PDF of Knowledge Base with WordPress Document Management Plugin

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Having a good website with attractive plugins and themes with many features does not mean that you are done. There is a need to have a place where people can connect with each other and get the desired information that can be easily get from anywhere and anytime. Each time you cannot expect your customers to submit a ticket for a simplest query and wait for the agent to get a reply. So there is a need to have a knowledge base tool where one can put all the information of the product.

Features of Knowledge Base:

  • Eases the work of Customers:

Whenever a customer have a query he can go through the knowledge base article and get the desired solution instead of waiting for the solutions.

  • Saves time of staff agents:

The customers get solutions for their queries from the knowledge base so there is no need for them to contact the support agents each time thus saving the time of staff agents.

  • Flexible:

It is very flexible since one is able to access the information irrespective of place and time.

  • Collaboration:

Multiple employees can collaborate to share the particular information of the organization. Thus they all share a common platform to put forth all the information.

Need to generate PDF of knowledge base:

There is a need to create a electronic version of the knowledge base so that one will be able to send the electronic drafts without altering the original format. Also it should be secure and compatible across many platforms. This can be easily achieved through PDF generation of the knowledge base. There is a WordPress Plugin available to auto generate PDF of knowledge base through Documentor.

Simple Steps to Auto generate PDF with Documentor:

Step 1] In order to use Documentor the Documentor WordPress plugin is to be activated. After you have downloaded the zip file and added to the plugins folder go to:

Admin Panel >> Installed Plugins >> Documentor >> Activate

Ones the plugin is activated then you will find the Documentor option in the admin panel where the settings related to it can be done.

Step 2] Create a document from:

Admin Panel >> Documentor >> Create New

Enter the Guide name and different sections can be added for the particular guide.

Step 3] Ones the guide is created go to:

Admin panel >> Documentor >> Manage >> Select the particular document >> Edit Section >> Settings >> Advance Section >> Save PDF (It can be either enabled or disabled from here) 

Step 4] Ones you are done with these settings, go to manage and select the particular documents for which you want the PDF to be generated. Under the sections for the particular document towards the bottom there will be Generate PDF option. Hit the button each time whenever there are certain changes in the section whenever you need to generate the PDF else old PDF will get generated and downloaded from the front end. There will be a pdf symbol that will get appeared on the front end after PDF generation.

There are two ways for which the PDF can be generated:

1) If Load sections using AJAX is disabled:

Admin panel >> Documentor >> Manage >> Select the particular document >> Edit Section >> Settings tab >> Advanced Settings >> Load sections using AJAX (disabled)

If it is disabled then one will find Generate PDF button below all section on Edit page.

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2) If Load sections using AJAX is enabled:

Admin panel >> Documentor >> Manage >> Select the particular document >> Edit Section >> Settings tab >> Advanced Settings >> Load sections using AJAX (enabled)

If it is enabled then one will find Generate PDF button for every section on Edit page.

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Highlights of Auto generated PDF with Documentor plugin:

  • PDF Formatting:

One can format the PDF from the PDF options where the Title, Header, Footer, Subtitle and many other options can be easily changed.

  • WPML Compatible:

Documentor is WPML compatible, so the PDF file can be generated in any language.

  • Import and Export Guide:

One is able to import the document that is created on the localhost and Export it using from the Manage Guides option of the Documentor.

  • Responsive:

Documentor is supported and responsive to all the devices.

  • Supports all content types:

It supports all the content type such as videos, images, Google maps, tables and many more.

Thus Documentor has helped to create online product documentation very easily along with the auto generate PDF feature which is a great feature indeed.