Smart Docs

Description

Create powerful documentation for your products and services right in WordPress with features like Live Search, Breadcrumbs, User Feedback, Styling with Customizer, etc.

Whether you are building a small or large Knowledge Base, SmartDocs will help you manage docs easily and help your customers find answers quickly, even in the in-depth documentation of your products and services.

SmartDocs keeps everything simple and minimal. You can get started with it in a few clicks without feeling lost and overwhelmed.

Create Powerful Knowledge Base to EXCEL Customer Support

With SmartDocs, you can easily create and organize content in an attractive and structured way. This will make it easier for your customers to find the piece of information they are looking for.

Reduce Support Workload

There is no doubt that well-maintained Documentation can reduce the support team’s workload tremendously, and with SmartDocs, you can achieve that in 5 simple steps:

  1. Install Plugin
  2. Add Docs and Assign Categories to them
  3. Setup basic style from the customizer
  4. Tweak settings a bit to your taste and
  5. Visit Docs Homepage

You are done with a flawlessly working Docs page!

Let your customers find the answers to their questions quickly without interacting with the support representatives for known issues or queries. It’s a win-win! 🏆

Top Features 🤘

1️⃣ FLAWLESS NAVIGATION

With SmartDocs built-in templates, you can quickly set up Documentation and organize them using categories for users to start navigating them easily.

2️⃣ POWERFUL SEARCH OPTION

SmartDocs comes with a powerful search that will allow customers to navigate the doc based on the entered keywords. The search also supports other post types like posts and pages to show up in the search results. All easily adjustable via settings in one click.

3️⃣ BUILT-IN-STYLING & CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS

We understand the hassle of going through CSS and the painstaking time it takes to build beautiful designs. Hence, we have build styling controls right in the Native Customizer.

With our built-in customizer controls, you can set colors, background colors, font-sizes, etc., for built-in templates right from the customizer. Not to mention with Live Preview.

4️⃣ GET QUICK FEEDBACK

Getting feedback from the customers is an essential part of the Documentation. SmartDocs provides built-in functionality for customers to rate docs as helpful or not helpful. This not only allows them to provide quality feedback but also helps you to understand if the content is serving the purpose or not.

5️⃣ CUSTOM BREAKPOINTS

Good Documentation should be accessible from every device, and SmartDocs understand it undoubtedly.

It is fully responsive and works perfectly on mobile, tablet, and desktop screens. You can even set custom breakpoints for your Documentation in the customizer settings if required.

6️⃣ DEVELOPER FRIENDLY

Do you like to fiddle with the code?
We definitely do 😉 While managing Documentation for our existing plugins, we know how frustrating it can be for developers to change or modify simple things in code. Hence, we have researched and analyzed the plugins’ code design from a developer’s perspective to keep the code developer-friendly.

Rewrite, Modify, or Customize; whatever you want to do, you’ll find a way in SmartDocs to do it.

PRODUCT BY IDEABOX 💛

SmartDocs is developed and brought to you by IdeaBox Creations, the company behind many great WordPress plugins. Our motivated and customer friendly team is trusted by more than 200,000 customers worldwide.

We will love to see you build great Documentations & Knowledge bases with the SmartDocs plugin, and if there are any hiccups, we will be right here to help 👨‍🔧

DOCUMENTATION AND SUPPORT

  • For Documentation and support, check out our Documentation
  • If you have any questions, visit our plugin’s support forum
  • For more information, visit our website at SmartDocs

LIKE SmartDocs? ❤

We bet you do! Your appreciation is always motivating for our team.

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Installation

Minimum Requirements

  • PHP 7.3 or greater is recommended
  • MySQL 5.6 or greater is recommended

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option — WordPress will handles the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of SmartDocs, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu, and click “Add New.”

In the search field type “Smart Docs” then click “Search Plugins”. Once you’ve found us, you can view details about it such as the point release, rating, and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by! Click “Install Now,” and WordPress will take it from there.

Manual installation

Manual installation method requires downloading the SmartDocs plugin and uploading it to your web server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.

Updating

Automatic updates should work smoothly, but we still recommend you back up your site.

If you encounter issues with the docs/category pages after an update, flush the permalinks by going to WordPress > Settings > Permalinks and hitting “Save”. That should return things to normal.

FAQ

Does SmartDocs work with any theme?

Yes, the SmartDocs works with any standard WordPress theme.

Do I need coding skills to use SmartDocs?

Absolutely not! SmartDocs is as easy to use, as you can think of.

Where can I report bugs or contribute to the project?

To report bugs or to contribute, headover to the GitHub repository

Reviews

March 16, 2021
Works perfectly as advertized. Custom styling through Customizer is nice, although I still had to custom code some css to make it look good. But that is because of the theme I’m using. Overall 5 stars. Made a translation in Dutch
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Contributors & Developers

“Smart Docs” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Smart Docs” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Smart Docs” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.1.0 – March 21, 2022

  • New: Introducing drag and drop category ordering feature
  • Enhancement: Added new sorting option in Customizer for docs archive – Menu Order
  • Enhancement: Added option in the Customizer to show child categories in category grid on archive
  • Enhancement: Updated search logic to display result through REST API instead of AJAX query
  • Enhancement: Category widget will display categories in menu order
  • Enhancement: Added a max height to search result container
  • Enhancement: Minor CSS improvements
  • Fix: Articles alignment issue on docs archive
  • Fix: Paragraph output issue on single doc page
  • Fix: oEmbed issue in the docs content
  • Development: Added filter hook smartdocs_list_docs_query_args
  • Development: Added filter hook smartdocs_related_posts_query_args
  • Development: Added filter hook smartdocs_tax_render_articles

1.0.2 – July 21, 2021

  • Development: Added filter hook smartdocs_get_template
  • Development: Added filter hook smartdocs_get_template_part

1.0.1 – March 18, 2021

  • Enhancement: Added container width option under Customizer > Smart Docs > Layout
  • Enhancement: Added sidebar display option under Customizer > Smart Docs > Layout
  • Enhancement: Added default placeholder image as category featured image
  • Enhancement: Added an option to enable/disable the category thumbnail on frontend under Customizer > Smart Docs > Docs Archive
  • Fix: PHP warning when a post is not assigned to any category
  • Fix: Removed site’s header and footer from getting outputted in print media
  • Fix: Minor CSS issues
  • Development: Added hook smartdocs_search_before_query
  • Development: Added hook smartdocs_search_after_query
  • Development: Added filter smartdocs_search_query_args

1.0.0 – February 9, 2021

  • Initial version