What Is AssistCamp?

AssistCamp is a free WordPress plugin that turns your WordPress site into a documentation site or knowledge base. You write your documentation inside WordPress using the normal block editor, and AssistCamp handles the structure, the navigation, and the front end pages that your readers see.

What AssistCamp does

AssistCamp adds a separate content type to WordPress called a doc. A doc is not a blog post and not a page. Docs live in their own section of your WordPress admin, they have their own organizing system, and they appear on their own part of your website, usually at yoursite.com/docs/.

Keeping documentation separate from blog posts matters for two reasons. Your blog archive stays clean, and your documentation gets a proper structure with categories, ordering, and search built for reference reading rather than for reverse chronological browsing.

How AssistCamp organizes your content

AssistCamp uses four building blocks. They fit together from largest to smallest:

1. Knowledgebase. The largest container. A knowledgebase is a complete set of documentation, usually for one product. Most sites only need one.
2. Docs Category. A group of related docs inside a knowledgebase, for example “Getting Started” or “Troubleshooting”.
3. Doc. A single documentation article. This is the page your reader actually reads.
4. Docs Tag. An optional label you can attach to any doc to connect docs that live in different categories.

A typical setup looks like this: one knowledgebase, five to eight categories, and however many docs you need inside those categories.

Where AssistCamp lives in WordPress

After you activate the plugin, an AssistCamp menu appears in your WordPress admin sidebar. It contains:

• Dashboard: counts of your knowledgebases, total docs, published docs, and draft docs, plus shortcut buttons.
• All Docs: the list of every doc on your site.
• Add New Doc: create a new doc.
• Knowledgebases: create and manage knowledgebases.
• Docs Categories: create and manage categories.
• Docs Tags: create and manage tags.
• Settings: the plugin’s settings.
• Organize: drag and drop screen for controlling the order your categories and docs appear in on the front end.

What your readers see

Your documentation gets its own hub page listing your categories and docs, a search box for docs, a sidebar showing your categories with the number of docs in each, breadcrumbs so readers know where they are, and an automatic table of contents on longer docs.

Who AssistCamp is for

AssistCamp is built for plugin and theme developers, SaaS companies, agencies, and any business that needs a help center on a WordPress site. It works with both block themes and classic themes.