What follows is intended to be a reusable documentation outline for Craft CMS plugins.

While every plugin’s documentation will be unique, it is useful to have a common structure that makes it easy to read and navigate. This documentation outline is displayed on a single page, however it can be split into multiple pages if necessary.

A real world example of a plugin that uses this documentation outline is the Blitz plugin.

This is a community resource and contributions are welcome through pull requests.

Add a summary of what the plugin does and how it can help end-users in a few sentences.

The Gamma plugin provides useful, intelligent, insightful and rather vague functionality to sites running on Craft CMS.

It helps end-users by giving them insights into all manner of things, allowing them to make more informed decisions about their website and business.

Embed an image beneath the text if appropriate. Images should be stored in a folder in the same repository, for example in /docs/images.

A table of contents containing the top-level headings (H2) makes the documentation easier to navigate. Second-level navigation (H3) can be added if appropriate.

• License
• Requirements
• Usage
• Settings
• How It Works
• Roadmap
• Credits

For a commercial license you should state the license and renewal fees.

This plugin requires a commercial license which can be purchased through the Craft Plugin Store.
The license fee is $X plus $Y per subsequent year for updates (optional).

For a free license you should state

This plugin is licensed for free under the MIT License.

State the required minimum version of Craft and any other dependencies.

This plugin requires Craft CMS 3.0.0 or later.

Installing a plugin is straightforward and doesn’t require more than a single sentence.

Install the plugin from the Craft Plugin Store in your site’s control panel or manually using composer.

composer require putyourlightson/craft-gamma

Provide a description of how to set up the plugin and begin using it. More details of how the plugin works will go in the How It Works section.

Once the plugin is installed, it will begin collecting data about your site straight away. You can view the results and reports in the plugin page in the control panel.

You can output reports in your twig templates using the following tags:

{{ craft.gamma.reports }}

Give a summary of the plugin settings or explain what each of the settings does. Embed a screenshot beneath the text if appropriate.

Enables the collection of data about the site for generation reports.

The level of detail to collect about the site.

• Low : collects site data only.
• Medium : collects site and user data.
• High : collects site, user and interaction data.

If the plugin comes with a config.php file then describe how to use it and explain any settings that are not already explained above.

The plugin comes with a config file for a multi-environment way to set the plugin settings. The config file also provides more advanced plugin configuration settings. To use it, copy the config.php to your project’s main config directory as gamma.php and uncomment any settings you wish to change.

An array of site IDs to ignore when collecting data.

An array of user IDs to ignore when collecting data.

Use this section to go in-depth into how the plugin works, using subsections and screenshots where appropriate.

The plugin monitors various things, collecting data about your sites, users and interactions.

Data is collected automatically as the site is used.

Reports are created based on collected data.

Add planned features so that users can see what is in the pipeline.

• Better multi-site support.
• Visual reports and graphs.
• More advanced configuration settings.

Credit anyone who deserves it.

Inspired in part by pluginfactory.io.

Created by PutYourLightsOn.