Title: Custom User Guide
Author: Assylkhan Rakhatov
Published: <strong>November 25, 2020</strong>
Last modified: January 22, 2026

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# Custom User Guide

 By [Assylkhan Rakhatov](https://profiles.wordpress.org/assylkhanrakhatov/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/custom-user-guide.1.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-user-guide/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-user-guide/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-user-guide/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-user-guide/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-user-guide/)

## Description

Custom User Guide allows you to build interactive user guides on your website.

Features:
 * Two types of elements: tooltip and modal window * Adapted for all screen
sizes (desktop, mobile, tablet) * Translatable

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Tooltip view
 * [[
 * Modal view
 * [[
 * Main tab of the Add Guide window
 * [[
 * GUI tab of the Add Guide window

## Installation

 1. Open {your website URL}/wp-admin
 2. On the left side menu select Plugins -> Add New -> Uload Plugin
 3. Upload the zip file of this plugin and then activate it

## FAQ

How to tranlsate the interface into your language?
 1. Open the ‘languages’ folder
inside the plugin’s directory. 2. Open ‘custom-user-guide-en_US.po’ using the Poedit
app. 3. There will be two text boxes ‘Source text’ and ‘Translation’ for each phrase/
word. Write the translation for each phrase/word. 4. Click File->’Save as’, and 
change the en_US suffix to your locale’s suffix. E.g. if your locale is Mexican 
Spanish, then write ‘es_MX’. Choose the ‘languages’ folder. 5. Reinstall the plugin
or upload the 2 newly created .po and .mo files to your plugins directory using 
Filezilla or any other FTP software.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Custom User Guide” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Assylkhan Rakhatov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/assylkhanrakhatov/)

“Custom User Guide” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/custom-user-guide/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Custom User Guide” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/custom-user-guide)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/custom-user-guide/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/custom-user-guide/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/custom-user-guide/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/custom-user-guide/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.0

_Release Date – 21 Nov 2020_

#### 1.1.1

*Freemius update that removes security issues – 13 Apr 2022

#### 1.1.2

*Update to match PHP 8.3 and WordPress 6.4 – 28 Jan 2024

#### 1.2

*Added most of the premium features – 2 Feb 2024

#### 1.3

*Updated PHP requirement to 7.4+ and WordPress requirement to 5.2+ for better compatibility
*
Tested up to WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.5 – January 2026

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Last updated **4 months ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-user-guide/) and [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-user-guide/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/custom-user-guide)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-user-guide/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Assylkhan Rakhatov ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/assylkhanrakhatov/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-user-guide/)