AssistCamp

AssistCamp is a documentation and knowledge base plugin for WordPress. It turns a standard WordPress install into a structured documentation site, so help content lives on your own domain instead of a hosted platform.

It is built for people who sell or support more than one thing. Each product, plugin, or service can have its own knowledgebase, with its own categories, tags, and frontend pages. The URL structure adapts automatically: with a single knowledgebase, docs sit at /docs/category/article/, and once a second knowledgebase is added, URLs switch to /docs/knowledgebase/category/article/ without manual reconfiguration.

Documentation is written in the standard WordPress block editor. The plugin ships ten server-rendered blocks for assembling doc layouts: sidebar navigation with doc counts, live search, breadcrumbs, category grid, knowledgebase grid, table of contents, archive doc list, single doc content, previous and next doc navigation, and a last-modified date block. These work with block themes through HTML templates and with classic themes through PHP templates, and themes can override any template by placing it in an assistcamp/ directory.

Other features include REST API powered live search with dropdown results, transient-based caching for search results and term counts, a configurable base slug in place of /docs/, a drag-and-drop screen for reordering categories and docs, automatic table of contents generation from headings, per-doc cover images, view counts, Customizer options for classic themes, and an onboarding wizard that creates a first knowledgebase and sample content.

Typical uses are product help centers, software and plugin documentation, user guides, internal knowledge bases, and FAQ sections.

AssistCamp is developed by DotCamp. The core plugin is free and available on WordPress.org.