Descripción
Most organizations have an authoritative document nobody reads: the operations
manual, the employee handbook, the policy book. It is careful, complete, and
correct, and it sits in a shared drive as a PDF that is more work to open than
to ask a coworker about.
Living Manual turns that PDF into a living website. Upload the document and get:
- Clean, browsable web pages with a table of contents and deep links.
- Real full-text search across every section.
- A public or logged-in-only manual, your choice per document.
The free core needs no API key and no external service. It extracts the PDF
text and builds a section tree from the document’s own structure, in a single
step, at no cost.
Living Manual Pro
The optional Living Manual Pro add-on adds an AI
docent: a chat widget that answers only from your document and cites the exact
section behind every claim, plus an AI-enhanced ingest, a knowledge graph, and
an insights dashboard that analyzes what readers keep asking. The core runs
fully on its own without it.
External services
This plugin connects to the Living Manual support site at
https://support.livingmanual.ai to deliver feedback you write on the
Help & Feedback admin screen.
The request happens only when you type a message and click Send. It is never
made automatically, on activation, on a schedule, or in the background.
What is sent: your message, the email address you optionally provide, and a
short list of environment details used to reproduce problems: your site URL,
your WordPress version, your PHP version, the Living Manual and Living Manual
Pro version numbers, whether an Anthropic API key is set (true or false, never
the key itself), whether a license key is set (true or false, never the key
itself), your active theme name and version, your site locale, and whether the
site is a multisite. The screen prints these exact values above the Send button
before you submit.
Service terms: https://livingmanual.ai/terms/
Privacy policy: https://support.livingmanual.ai/privacy/
Capturas
Instalación
- Install and activate Living Manual.
- Go to Settings > Permalinks and click Save to flush rewrite rules.
- Open the Living Manual admin menu, upload a PDF, and give it a name.
- Visit /manual/your-slug/ to browse the manual.
FAQ
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Does the free version need an API key?
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No. The free core builds browsable pages and search from your PDF with no API
key and no external service. -
What does the Pro add-on add?
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An AI docent that answers from your document with citations, an AI-enhanced
ingest with a knowledge graph, and an insights dashboard. It requires this
free core plugin to be installed and active. -
Where is my content stored?
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Everything stays in your own WordPress database and uploads directory. Your
document, its sections, and your search index never leave your server. -
Does the plugin send anything to an external service?
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Only when you ask it to. The Help & Feedback screen has a form for writing to
Living Manual support, and submitting that form is the plugin’s only outbound
request. There is no activation ping, no usage telemetry, and no scheduled
call. See External services below.
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Registro de cambios
1.4.0
- Adding a filter that lets a manual live on a custom path, with every link,
breadcrumb, and the search form following it.
1.3.0
- Adding a Help & Feedback admin screen with links to the documentation and a
feedback form, with a full disclosure of what is sent before you send it.
1.0.0
- First public release of the free core: browsable, searchable manual pages
built from a PDF with no API key and no cost.