We got tired of our own documentation.
AssistCamp began as an internal fix for a mess we made ourselves. It is now a free WordPress plugin, and other people use it to run their docs too.
Every product we shipped made it worse.
We build WordPress plugins. Each one needs a manual, a set of guides, a place people can search when something breaks. For years that content lived wherever it landed: a page here, a post there, a FAQ nobody updated.
The support inbox told the story. The same questions, over and over, with answers that already existed somewhere nobody could find.
The tools on offer did not fit. Hosted platforms meant a monthly bill and our content sitting on somebody else’s servers. The WordPress options were heavy, and most of them worked around the block editor rather than with it.
So we built the one we wanted. Three levels of structure, a sidebar that builds itself, and articles written in the editor we already use every day.
Three things we keep coming back to.
Every feature decision runs through one of these.
01
Writing a doc should take minutes.
If publishing feels like a project, the doc never gets written. AssistCamp uses the block editor you already know, so there is nothing new to learn before you start.
02
Structure beats volume.
A hundred articles nobody can navigate is worse than twenty in the right order. Categories, search, breadcrumbs, and reading order are the product, not extras bolted on later.
03
Your docs have a second reader now.
More of your customers ask an AI assistant instead of opening your docs. The assistant reads them on their behalf. That changes what good documentation looks like, and it is shaping where we take the plugin.
Made by DotCamp.
DotCamp is a small team that has been building for WordPress for more than a decade. You may know our other work: Ultimate Blocks, WP Table Builder, Tableberg, and a handful of plugins running on hundreds of thousands of sites.
We are not venture funded and we are not chasing a growth curve. We build tools we use ourselves, ship steadily, and read every support message that comes in. That is the whole strategy.
10+ years
Building for WordPress
10 plugins
Shipped and maintained
Open source
Free on WordPress.org
What we are building next.
AssistCamp is early and the roadmap is mostly made of user requests. Three things we are working on now:
Docs an AI assistant can actually read
Machine readable versions of every article, plus a map of your knowledgebase that assistants can find on their own.
Better signal on what readers want
Which articles get read, which searches come back empty, and which gaps to fill next.
More control over the layout
More blocks, more template options, and fewer moments where you have to accept the default.
Have a look for yourself.
Free, open source, and running on your own WordPress. No seats to buy and no content parked on somebody else’s platform.
WordPress 6.0+ · PHP 7.4+ · No account, no external service