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BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, MCP Server, Docs, Wikis, FAQ & Chatbot / 4.9.4
BetterDocs – AI Documentation, Knowledge Base, MCP Server, Docs, Wikis, FAQ & Chatbot v4.9.4
4.9.4 4.9.3 4.9.2 4.9.1 4.9.0 4.8.2 4.8.1 4.8.0 4.7.0 4.6.2 4.6.1 4.6.0 4.5.6 4.5.5 4.5.4 4.5.3 4.5.2 4.5.1 4.5.0 4.4.1 4.4.0 3.3.4 3.4.0 3.4.1 3.4.2 All 202 releases
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4 4 Tags: docs, documentation, knowledge base, faq, chatgpt ai writer
5 5 Requires at least: 6.4
6 6 Tested up to: 7.1
7 7 Requires PHP: 7.4
8 -Stable tag: 4.9.1
8 +Stable tag: 4.9.4
9 9 License: GPLv3 or later
10 10 License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
11 11
12 12 Documentation, FAQ & Knowledge Base plugin to create docs, FAQs, product FAQ, wikis & help center with MCP, AI writing, instant answers & AI Chatbot.
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254 254
255 255 == Changelog ==
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257 += 4.9.4 - 08/10/2026 =
258 +
259 +- New: Write with AI now accepts audio and video attachments — drop in a Loom, a Zoom recording or a voice note and BetterDocs transcribes it, lets you correct the transcript, then writes the doc from it. Up to 25 MB, using your own OpenAI or Gemini key
260 +- New: Listen — a pill beside reading time that reads the article aloud in the reader's browser, with play, pause, seek and speed controls. Enable it under Settings → Layout → Single Doc → Listen; it also ships in the Reading Time block and Elementor widget, and as the [betterdocs_listen] shortcode
261 +- New: Animated GIFs in docs are served as a looping, muted video instead of a GIF, cutting page weight substantially, with an editor UI to link an MP4 and a poster image to an existing GIF
262 +- New: AI Actions — a "Copy page" button in the single doc meta row that copies the article as clean Markdown, or opens it in ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Studio, Perplexity or Grok with the page as context. Every doc is also published as Markdown at <doc-url>.md so AI assistants can read it. Enabled by default; configure under Settings → Layout → Single Doc → AI Actions, with full Customizer styling including Icon Color. On block themes and with Elementor Theme Builder it ships inside the "Reading Time, Listen and AI Action" block and widget, and the [betterdocs_ai_actions] shortcode places it anywhere
263 +- Improvement: Search now ranks exact title matches above older partial matches, instead of sorting ties oldest-first
264 +- Improvement: The Category Grid block script now loads only on pages where the block actually renders
265 +- Fixed: AI features ignored the AI platform you selected and required an OpenAI key regardless
266 +- Fixed: A site could crash when the AI Chatbot loaded before BetterDocs and Pro loaded after it
267 +- Fixed: Single doc URLs returned 200 instead of a proper 404 on WPML sites
268 +- Fixed: Table of contents, search box and search form could overflow the page on phones, scrolling the page sideways
269 +- Fixed: Single Doc Layout 7 scrolled sideways at 360px, and the reactions box overflowed on phones
270 +- Fixed: A collapsible table of contents placed on a regular page could not be expanded on phones
271 +- Fixed: The doc sidebar shifted after page load, and sidebar items could stack incorrectly
272 +- Fixed: Synced patterns containing BetterDocs blocks lost their styling on most pages, and stale Essential Blocks CSS kept loading in the widget stylesheet on every page
273 +- Fixed: GIFs served as video ignored the Image block's size and styles, lost "Expand on click", stayed frozen with no controls when the browser blocked autoplay, and rendered as an empty box when linked to a non-video attachment
274 +- Fixed: The REST API and RSS feed returned video markup for converted GIFs
275 +- Few minor bug fixes and improvements
276 +
277 += 4.9.3 - 27/09/2026 =
278 +
279 +- New: AI Actions — a "Copy page" button in the single doc meta row that copies the article as clean Markdown, or opens it in ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Studio, Perplexity or Grok with the page as context. Every doc is also published as Markdown at <doc-url>.md so AI assistants can read it. Enabled by default; configure under Settings → Layout → Single Doc → AI Actions. On block themes and with Elementor Theme Builder it ships inside the "Reading Time and AI Action" block and widget, and the [betterdocs_ai_actions] shortcode places it anywhere
280 +- Fixed: Doc URLs that do not exist now return a proper 404 instead of an empty page, on sites using category-in-path permalinks
281 +- Fixed: Live search returned no results when the knowledge base is served from a subdomain or a domain alias
282 +- Fixed: Single Doc Layout 5 no longer shows Table of Contents Background, Hover and Padding controls that had no effect on the page
283 +- Fixed: Encyclopedia entries are now listed alphabetically within each letter, instead of newest first
284 +- Fixed: MCP OAuth discovery could answer for — or be answered by — another MCP-enabled plugin on the same site, so connecting clients were handed metadata for the wrong plugin
285 +- Few minor bug fixes and improvements
286 +
287 += 4.9.2 - 16/09/2026 =
288 +
289 +- Fixed: Customizer layout migration seeded the wrong defaults, so saved layouts reverted to Layout 1
290 +- Fixed: Nested subcategories could be cached while empty and stay empty until the cache expired
291 +- Fixed: Term counts were not refreshed after a recount, and an aborted import left counts stale
292 +- Fixed: Category grids now collapse to a single column below 500px
293 +- Fixed: FAQ group titles can now have their own background color
294 +- Few minor bug fixes and improvements
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257 296 = 4.9.1 - 03/09/2026 =
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259 298 - New: Print template — add your logo and a custom footer to printed / PDF pages, from Settings → Layout → Single Doc