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So every install of Drupal comes with the Help Module installed by default (in the Core – optional section). This module provides some basic help functionality for those people that are starting out with the great content management solution known as Drupal.

What’s better than help? Advanced Help!

I just stumbled across the Advanced Help Module the other day. As the old cliché goes, “Its like Help on steroids”. Other module developers can hook into this module and store there help in pure .html files. These are then accessible to you as the end user. Further it indexes any help related files, including the README files that come with every Drupal Module. You know the ones we all read correct.

The great thing about having all of these files indexed is that you can then use the search feature of advanced help and get access to everything related to what you are looking for.

For example I installed it and searched for WYSIWYG and not only did I get the Readme’s that I expected showing up, but I also got a hit on the Path-Auto Module’s README which talked about some conflicts it has with WYSIWYG editors.