Admin Help Content

Change the ‘help content’ that slides down when users click on the Help drop-down in their dashboard

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Example of Admin Help content plugin in action
Adding your Admin Help content in Settings > General on a WordPress install
Adding your Admin Help content in Network Admin > Settings > Settings on a WordPress Multisite install
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Help should help, right?

Yet too much, or the wrong help, easily overwhelms.

And while the default WordPress help drop-down is packed full of information — do you really want your users overwhelmed with too much info and sent Codex / WordPress Support forum for assistance?

Default WordPress Help

Well, have no fear – this simple plugin allows to provide your users with the tips they need – cut out the stuff they don’t.

Now you control what they see, not WordPress, when they click on the help drop-down in their dashboard!

The WordPress Help drop-down

Here’s how we use it on Edublogs to send our users to Edublogs Support Site for assistance.

Help drop-down on Edublogs

And for the icing on the cake we use the WPMU DEV Easy Blogging plugin with Tool Tips activated!

Great for providing helpful tips to explain what each button and tab does, and making life for new users that much easier!

Easy Blogging Tooltips

Are you looking for other ways to brand your site?

Then checkout our amazing Ultimate Branding. Admin Help Content is included as standard along with a whole host of other cool and awesome features.

Usage

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive
WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manual
if you are new to WordPress.

To install:

1.  Download the plugin file
2.  Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
3.  Upload the admin-help-content plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
4 Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:

  • For WordPress Multisite installs – visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.
  • On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.

Netwwork activate plugin

Note: If you have an older versions of the plugins installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete them.

That’s it! No configuration necessary!

To Use on WordPress Multisite:

Simply head to Network Admin > Settings > Settings and add your help content in the text field labeled “Help Content”

Adding your Admin help content in Network Admin > Settings > Settings

Presto! Now whenever users click on the Help Drop-down any where in the dashboard you’ll control what they see!

Your new Help drop-down

To Use on regular WordPress:

Simply head to Settings > General and add your help content in the text field labeled “Help Content”

Adding your Admin help content in Settings > General

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