Documentor Lite

Documentor Lite WordPress plugin creates online documentation or help guide for a product or service. With the smart dashboard, one can easily add tutorials, posts or pages as different sections and publish that as a consolidated documentation.

Features

  • Add posts, pages and custom post type as documentation section
  • Responsive design
  • Drag and Drop reorder
  • SEO Ready
  • WPML and qTranslate compatible

Installation

  1. Download Documentor plugin.
  2. Unzip the documentor-lite.zip folder.
  3. Upload  documentor-lite folder to /wp-content/plugins directory.
  4. In WordPress dashboard, head over to the Plugins section.
  5. Activate Documentor Lite.

How to use Documentor Lite

Once the plugin is active, go to the ‘Documentor’ menu on dashboard. Follow the steps below to create and publish online documentation.

  1. To add guides or help documents, you need to first add sections. Click on ‘Add Section’ button.
  2. Choose whether the section will be a regular post, page, custom text or just a link
  3. If you want the guide to added as inline content i.e. it will be added as a custom post type, enter the details in ‘Inline’ fields
  4. Enter Menu Title which will appear in left side as the top heading and section title which will appear as the heading for the added section
  5. Using the TinyMCE editor, you can enter the guide content including images or videos
  6. Click on ‘Add Section’ button at the bottom. The added section will start appearing on the Documentor setting page under Section.
  7. By repeating Step 2 to 6, you can add as many sections as you want.
  8. Use Drag and Drop method to reorder the sections. Those sections can be reordered and even made sub-section under another section too (just like WordPress Menu reorder)
  9. Get the embed code (shortcode or template tag) for the documentor from ‘Embed’ tab. As Documentor Lite can create only one documentation, the shortcode and template tag will always remain as below,

Shortcode

[documentor 1]

Template Tag

<?php if(function_exists('get_documentor')){ get_documentor('1'); }?>

Documentor typography and other customizations can be done from the Settings tab on Documentor settings page.