Contribution guidelines
Content templates
At Kong, we use the following four standard content types when we write our documentation:
- Explanation: Documentation that is understanding-oriented because it clarifies and discusses a particular topic.
- How-to: Documentation that is goal-oriented and prescriptive and that takes readers through the steps to complete a real-world problem.
- Reference: Documentation that explains the technology, like API or command line documentation.
- Tutorial: Documentation that helps users learn about a topic by going step-by-step through a series of tasks.
To help anyone interested in writing documentation, we have created templates for the individual content types:
If you are interested in contributing a new plugin, there is also a plugin template you can follow to help you focus on writing the content not the format.