weDocs – Knowledgebase and Documentation Plugin for WordPress

weDocs – Knowledgebase and Documentation Plugin for WordPress

The best WordPress documentation plugin, weDocs, lets you manage your self-hosted knowledge base, wiki, and docs. Just set it up, and you can get goin …
Rating:
4.6
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Active Installations:
6000+
Last Updated:
May 24, 2024
WordPress Version:
5.6 or higher
Tested up to:
6.5.4

Easy Knowledge Base Management

Create and manage your knowledge base effortlessly with weDocs. The user-friendly interface and drag-and-drop functionality make it a breeze to organize and update your documentation.

Powerful Search Functionality

Instant access to relevant information with a robust search feature.

Enhanced User Engagement

Capture valuable insights and feedback from users with the built-in feedback form. The helpful voting system allows users to rate the helpfulness of articles, guiding others to valuable content.

Seamless Migration

Easily transfer your data from the BetterDocs knowledge base plugin to weDocs with just a few simple steps. Say goodbye to manual data transfer and save time.

v2.1.6 (24th May, 2024)

  • Feature: Add search block for documentation page.

  • Fix: weDocs dashboard ui conflicts with elementor.

  • Fix: Search Box’s Doc Redirection Issue on Classic Editor.

v2.1.5 (5th April, 2024)

  • Fix: Security vulnerability on docs helpful data update api.

v2.1.4 (29th February, 2024)

  • Fix: Update appsero sdk, manage from wedocs & handle deprecation error.

v2.1.3 (6th February, 2024)

  • Fix: Updated Appsero Client SDK library to version 2.0.2 which will fix a security issue with the previous version of the library and a fatal error caused by the library.

v2.1.2 (1st February, 2024)

  • Fix: Migrated docs reactivity issue for multiple migration.
  • Fix: Documentation delete api not working for new users.

  • Enhance: Implement article children preview for doc listing page.

  • Enhance: Add section, article documentations draggable option for all users.
  • Enhance: Add headway changelog option & update feedback action on admin dashboard.

v2.1.1 (11nd January, 2024)

  • Fix: Handle unnecessary requests for documentation management.
  • Enhance: Maintain docs fetching, actions, placeholder ui requests properly for dashboard & listing pages.

v2.1.0 (2nd January, 2024)

  • Feature: Quick search for documentation single page. Fixes #166

  • Enhance: Permission management access for drafted documents. Fixes #19

  • Enhance: Add new documentation create, delete actions permission for editor. Fixes #39
  • Enhance: Ensure weDocs strings localization for frontend, backend. Fixes #40
  • Enhance: Move articles collapse/expand settings from general to layout. Fixes #51

  • Fix: Static admin url for documentation edit (make it dynamic). Fixes #38

  • Fix: Template override loading issue for documentation single page. Fixes #176
  • Fix: Arrow dropdown visibility issue for active navigation of documentation single page. Fixes #177

v2.0.2 (6 November, 2023)

  • Enhance: Add weDocs app build stuffs in Appsero

v2.0.1 (6 November, 2023)

  • Fix: weDocs app build stuffs in Appsero

v2.0.0 (6 November, 2023)

  • New: New UI/UX with new features. Introduction of weDocs Pro

v1.7.8 (19th September, 2023)

  • Improved: Add weDocs beta info notice.

v1.7.3 (13th September, 2023)

  • Improved: Upgrade appsero version 1.2.4 from 1.1.11.

v1.7.2 (13th September, 2023)

  • Improved: Upgrade wp org stable tag 6.3.1 from 6.0.

v1.7.1 (15th November, 2021)

  • Fix: Upgraded to SweetAlert2 version 11.1.10
  • Fix: Links in the heading (h1, h2, h3) are now hidden on printing mode

v1.7 (3rd September, 2021)

  • New: Added Astra theme support. Single docs pages were narrow in width before, now it’ll be full page width.

v1.6.3 (28th July, 2021)

  • Enhancement: WordPress 5.8 compatibility.
  • Enhancement: Few modal texts were not translated properly, that is fixed now.

v1.6.2 (2nd Sep, 2020)

  • Fix: Fix REST API permission callback issue in WP 5.5.

v1.6.1 (5th June, 2020)

  • New: Load CSS and JS files only for Docs. Fixes #104
  • Fix: Added missing textdomains. Fixes #105
  • Fix: Fix search API. Was breaking due to namespace issue with WP_Query. Fixes #108

v1.6 (8 April, 2020)

  • New: Added expanding functionality for nested docs in the frontend. From the single doc, you’ll be able to see all documentation by clicking on the toggle icon from the sidebar.
  • Refactor: The plugin has been refactored to use PHP Namespacing. Now the plugin code is more organized.
  • Other: Added Appsero SDK to collect telemetry data.

v1.5 (11 July, 2019)

  • New: Added REST API support
  • New: Added comment support in single docs

v1.4.1 (26 August, 2018)

  • Fix: Updated Vue.js version to 2.5.16 and added minified version as well.

v1.4 (25 August, 2018)

  • New: Added new shortcode attribute (items) to limit no. of items shown. #59
  • New: Added a new filter wedocs_email_feedback_to for outgoing mail to address. #63
  • New: Added theme wrapper support. Now developers will be able to put dynamic start and end divs and tags in the single-docs.php template.
  • New: Show 3rd level doc in the admin UI builder.
  • New: Added automatic anchor tags in docs for h2 and h3 tags. Bookmarking is now very easy! Thanks to anchorjs.
  • Fix: Bug with quotes in the doc title. #66
  • Improved: Flush rewrite rules after plugin activates. Fixes the long time permalink issues with 404.
  • Improved: Disable page scrolling when the feedback modal is open.

v1.3.3 (8 November, 2017)

  • Improved: Proper user roles/permission checking when creating and deleting a doc. Previously, everyone who could access the UI, could create and delete any doc. No user capability checking was done previously, this version fixes the issue.

v1.3.2 (15 October, 2017)

  • Fix: Remove WPUF dependency on weForms upsell
  • New: Show docs and taxonomy in REST API. Fixes #44
  • New: List child articles if present in single doc. Fixes #34
  • New: Added page-atrribute support for the Docs post type. Now you can change the doc parent from the single docs edit page.
  • Improved: Upgrade Vue to 2.5.1 from 1.0.16
  • Improved: Every user should see the switch to classic UI url

v1.3.1 (24 August, 2017)

  • [improve] Added weForms reference

v1.3 (21 August, 2017)

  • [fix] Add missing text domains and Qtranslate support on doc feedback email
  • [fix] Moved final breadcrumb echo out of if parent clause and removed resultant excess delimiter. #23
  • [fix] Translate the send button. #38
  • [fix] Printing timeout extended to 2 seconds
  • [fix] Wrong tag post_type linking in edit-tags.php in admin. #40
  • [improve] Added filter on wedocs post type
  • [new] Added Spanish language (#37)
  • [new] Added docs page settings, removed post archive. Added settings “Docs Home” to use it in breadcrumb as Docs home. Created the docs page on activation if not exits.
  • [new] Added filter wedocs_breadcrumbs_html to customize breadcrumb HTML
  • [new] Added wedocs_get_publish_cap() function for dynamic role binding on admin menu, pending post status support. #42

v1.2.1 (1 November, 2016)

  • [fix] Auto print dialog missed

v1.2 (1 November, 2016)

  • [new] Added print option
  • [new] Contact modal
  • [new] Responsiveness
  • [new] Microdata implementation (schema.org)
  • [new] Last updated date
  • [new] Settings page

v1.1 (24 October, 2016)

  • SKIPPED VERSION due to release mistake

v1.0 (24 October, 2016)

  • [new] Added Persian language
  • [new] Add french translation, responsiveness and QtranslateX full support
  • [fix] Attach $event object to addArticle method
  • [fix] Typo in the key name (causes a PHP notice on line 111 $args['after']).

v0.1 (2 march, 2016)

  • Initial release

No support, NONE whatsoever - two installs failed

By ChristineB on June 1, 2024

I got the beta with the 60% off for sending feedback.

Site 1: Active BetterDocs kb quit working after weDocs install. I tried to import, submitted feedback for assistance.
NO RESPONSE

Site 2: Removed BetterDocs, installed weDocs. Then DRAFT PAGES showed up in weDocs. WHY?
Submitted feedback.
NO RESPONSE

I wanted to get away from the buggy BetterDocs and now wasted so many hours on weDocs, all for nothing.

Responses to their mailings from [email protected] are returned undeliverable. UNREAL!

Never heard of "[email protected]" to reduce customer frustration?

With all the BS AI crap and people getting dumber by the day, it is so important to make it easy to share real knowledge, spread some sanity.

Nobody can imagine how excited I was about weDocs a few weeks ago.

The stress and excessive screentime left me with two corneal ulcers in my left eye, almost went blind, and can only hope I don't need surgery.

I was so frustrated, I almost bought the professional lifetime license to get support:

"24 x 7 Priority Support

Priority email support. If needed, we'll setup video call to assist you. Day or night, rain or shine, our Support team's on the line"

But then again, why should I support a company that employs these deceptive practices, offers that beta, then entirely ignores me?

I wasn't expecting "priority" support, but NO support whatsoever, that's cruel!


great idea, terrible execution - slows down greatly!

By dreamsoft on April 28, 2024

I'm sorry to say this but after using Wedocs with the pro version, it is a terrible plugin, adding countless useless scripts to all pages (and if I disable it on the front page with Perfmatters it will not work anywhere else)

The support is also awful, answering in more than a month to anything (if it answers at all!)

Makes the pages very slow, like 8 seconds load on mobile, tho all my other websites not using this plugin are fast. If I disable this plugin on some pages (using Perfmatters plugin) those pages are fast.

There are also problems with the plugin itself as it has problems with displaying properly on all devices (the widget will not fit smaller laptops for example), and the AI chat, which is the reason why I bought the plugin, didn't work at all for a month, and it's not really working good now, it offers only one answer instead of searching through all the docs, showing all the relevant links (in the past it used to show 2 links, now just one).

Why do you make this plugin so terrible (when I enable it it doubles my source code lines, from 1600 lines to over 3300 lines!), loading so many scripts if it doesn't even need them? even disabling the widget will not stop the scripts loading. Disabling the plugin will remove all these scripts. for example, look what it loads:

'react-dom-js', 'wp-escape-html-js', 'wp-element-js', 'wp-is-shallow-equal-js',
'wp-keycodes-js', 'wp-priority-queue-js', 'wp-compose-js', 'wp-private-apis-js',
'wp-redux-routine-js', 'wp-data-js', 'wp-blob-js', 'wp-autop-js',
'wp-block-serialization-default-parser-js', 'wp-html-entities-js', 'wp-rich-text-js',
'wp-shortcode-js', 'wp-blocks-js', 'moment-js', 'wp-date-js', 'wp-primitives-js',
'wp-warning-js', 'wp-components-js', 'wp-keyboard-shortcuts-js', 'wp-commands-js',
'wp-notices-js', 'wp-preferences-persistence-js', 'wp-preferences-js',
'utils-js', 'moxiejs-js', 'plupload-js', 'json2-js', 'underscore-js',
'media-models-js', 'wp-plupload-js', 'mediaelement-core-js', 'mediaelement-migrate-js',
'wp-polyfill-inert-js', 'regenerator-runtime-js', 'wp-polyfill-js',
'media-views-js', 'media-editor-js', 'media-audiovideo-js', 'wp-api-fetch-js',
'wp-deprecated-js', 'react-js', 'wp-url-js', 'wp-a11y-js', 'clipboard-js',
'wp-api-request-js', 'wp-mediaelement-js', 'backbone-js', 'jquery-ui-sortable-js',
'wp-dom-ready-js', 'wp-hooks-js', 'wp-i18n-js'

why? if you want to have a chance with this plugin, please work on its optimization!

Latest Updated failed - Crashed entire platform

By Dan Nita on November 13, 2023

As highlighted title sais Latest Updated failed - Crashed entire platform.

"Critical Error"

Update:

within 24h the plugin developers released a new update

New update broke functionality for me

By bguerrero12 on November 8, 2023

Cannot access or edit existing docs anymore. Same issue when creating new docs. Get message:

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

The best Wordpress doc plugin

By dhunter2023 on September 8, 2023

I have tried different Docs plugins for Wordpress. This is simply the best.

Pros: 1. Easy to use

2. Light-weight. This is extremely important. Some search engines will put limit on the page size. I used other Docs plugins, which add heavy codes to each page. The result is a huge penalty on the website ranking.

3. Multiple docs support.

Very simple to use and does what it is supposed to

By pjsgsy on March 20, 2023

I've had no issues in 6 months or so of slowly building up mydocumentation. It just works (so far!)

Not compatible with translation plugin Polylang

By liteweight on March 6, 2023

I would have left 4-5 after testing your plugin if you were more upfront on the repo. Please indicate wedocs is not compatible with any translation plugins such as Polylang.

Also please mention that your kb isn't built-up/coded with SEO in mind.

This would be nice for other user on the look out so we can all save time ;-)

best wishes

Nice plugin!

By hyudha on August 13, 2022

Simple and easy to modified.

Excellent Plugin

By ecr007 on August 11, 2022

Very Recommend

Great plugin. Simple and lightweight but customizable

By jdh1178 (jhinden) on March 7, 2022

Really love the system for adding posts. Wish all of WP had this kind of editor. The doc features are just enough and it's a good starting point to develop with.
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