Writing and Editing Articles
Stale Articles
Mark articles as stale so your team knows exactly what needs updating even if they don’t have all the information they need right then.
Text Editor
Learn how to get the most out of our custom text editor to create new articles that help customers or your team.
Featuring an Article
Featuring is a great way to promote your best and most important articles in HelpDocs. Here's how to make an article the star of the show. ⭐
Creating a Subcategory
We've built a ton of knowledge bases for ourselves and others and in our extensive experience you can usually get by with just one level of categories. Though sometimes you might want to add a few more.
Using help.new to Create Articles
Power user? Use help.new to create new articles from anywhere on the web.
Exporting Articles to Word
Need to work on your article in Word? We've got a way to export one or multiple articles into .docx format.
Exporting Articles to PDF
With PDF article export you can take your knowledge base offline. We'll automatically make them readable, print friendly, and nicely formatted. 💅
Filtering Articles
Need to narrow down the list of articles with certain attributes? You can filter your articles to find what you're looking for. 🔍
Hiding Articles from Public Search Engines
Sometimes you don't want your docs to show up in search results pages. Here's how to discourage search engines from indexing your knowledge base 🤖⛔
Exporting & Backing Up Your Articles
At HelpDocs we take regular backups of all your data, so you don't need to worry. That said, if you need a copy of your data for any reason, it's super easy to grab it from our API.
Understanding Search Results
We're constantly improving our search algorithm to get you the best results, but it's not always enough. If you want to improve your search, there's a couple things you can do. 🔎
Duplicating an Article
Wanna create a new article but with the content and settings? By duplicating an article it'll copy across everything from your previous article so you can create similar articles quickly ⚡️ So they d…
Incompatible Browser Extensions
Sometimes our article editor and your browser extensions just don't get on. 😣If you're using Grammarly, Beeline Reader, or ad blockers, read on.
Deleting an Article
Changed your mind? Not sure this article is right for your Knowledge Base anymore? Deleting an article is super quick and easy ✨ Deleting an Article. Head to your article. Click ⠇ in the top right. C…
What is Readability?
In the article editor you'll see a readability score. This is a measure of how complex your article is to understand. 1 is super easy to understand, whereas 14 is very difficult.
Collaborating on Articles with Presence
We've built real-time presence indicators into the product to help you work as a team. The days of overwriting each other's work are gone.✨
Adding a Table of Contents
If you're writing guides or long form articles you might want to add a Table of Contents (TOC). This makes it way easier for people to navigate your article. 👏
Restoring Deleted Articles
Sometimes when you're in the zone you can get a little trigger happy, we get it. If you've deleted your article recently by accident I've got good news—you can restore it. 🥳
Editing Category Metadata
When you start out with HelpDocs and create a category for your articles, you can customize a few things about its URL and appearance. We call this metadata. Here's what all this metadata's about.
Delete a Category
Now and then you might need to delete a category. Perhaps you've restructured your docs or maybe you've just created a category you don't need by mistake.
Creating Draft Versions of Published Articles with Working Copy
When you're editing an article that's already Published it's likely you'll want to make a bunch of changes at once without disturbing the current version. This is super useful when you're launching a…
Bulk Select & Edit Multiple Articles
Sometimes you want to update multiple articles at once without going in and out of each one. With bulk edit inside the content view, you can. Go forth and update. 🧙♂️
Hidden Categories
When you create a category for the first time, you might not see it on your customer-facing knowledge base. That's because we only display categories that contain published articles. 🙃
Linking to a Part of an Article
Sometimes you'll want to send your customers to a specific part of an article. Here's how.
Previewing Articles
We all want our docs to look just right. If you're writing or editing an article and you want to check how it looks on your HelpDocs before publishing it, you can preview it from the article editor. 👀