{"id":40,"date":"2026-09-09T04:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/40\/getting-help\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T04:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:26:12","slug":"getting-help","status":"publish","type":"nirohelp_doc","link":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/troubleshooting-support\/getting-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting help"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Try these first<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/troubleshooting-support\/common-problems\/\">Common problems and fixes<\/a>.<\/strong> Most reports turn out<br \/>\n   to be one of the entries there.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The guide for the feature you are using.<\/strong> Each section of this manual<br \/>\n   documents what a feature does <em>not<\/em> do as carefully as what it does, and a<br \/>\n   surprising number of &#8220;bugs&#8221; are documented behaviour.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/reports-analytics\/ask-nirohelp\/\">Ask NiroHelp<\/a><\/strong>, if your<br \/>\n   question is about your own numbers rather than about the plugin. <em>Who is at<br \/>\n   capacity right now?<\/em> and <em>what docs are we missing?<\/em> are questions it answers<br \/>\n   directly from your site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Narrowing down a problem<\/h2>\n<p>Two checks resolve a large share of reports before you write anything:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Switch to a default theme, and deactivate other plugins.<\/strong> If the problem<br \/>\ndisappears, it is a conflict rather than a NiroHelp fault \u2014 reactivate one at a<br \/>\ntime to find which one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try it as an administrator.<\/strong> A screen that is missing or empty for one person<br \/>\nand fine for an administrator is a permissions question, not a fault. See<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/setup-configuration\/roles-and-permissions\/\">Roles and permissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>What to include when you ask<\/h2>\n<p>The more of this you send, the faster the answer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What you did, what you expected, and what happened instead.<\/strong> In that order.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where.<\/strong> The exact screen \u2014 <em>NiroHelp \u2192 Settings \u2192 Tickets \u2192 Form fields<\/em> \u2014<br \/>\n  or the public page address.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who.<\/strong> Which role the affected person has, and whether it also happens for<br \/>\n  an administrator.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your versions.<\/strong> WordPress, NiroHelp, PHP and your theme.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A screenshot.<\/strong> Of the whole screen, including any notice at the top.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The exact wording of any error message.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Never send passwords or your AI site key.<\/strong> No support request needs either.<br \/>\nIf you think your site key has leaked, click <strong>Disconnect<\/strong> on <strong>NiroHelp \u2192 AI<\/strong><br \/>\nand register again \u2014 see<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/ai-assistance\/disconnecting-and-reconnecting-ai\/\">Disconnecting and re-registering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Before you make changes on a live site<\/h2>\n<p>A few things in this manual change public addresses or send real email. Test<br \/>\nthem on a staging copy first:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Changing the doc URL structure<\/strong>, which breaks existing links until you set<br \/>\n  up redirects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Renaming the docs archive page slug<\/strong>, which moves your whole knowledge<br \/>\n  base.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Testing notification emails.<\/strong> They carry working one-click login links, so<br \/>\n  never send test mail to a real client address from a copy of your live site.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Running a migration.<\/strong> It is safe to re-run, but take a backup anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Where to go<\/h2>\n<p>The NiroHelp website \u2014 <strong>https:\/\/nirohelp.com<\/strong> \u2014 is the place to start for<br \/>\nsupport, updates and contact details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"nirohelp_product":[],"nirohelp_topic":[11],"class_list":["post-40","nirohelp_doc","type-nirohelp_doc","status-publish","hentry","nirohelp_topic-troubleshooting-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nirohelp_doc\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nirohelp_doc"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nirohelp_doc"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"nirohelp_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nirohelp_product?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"nirohelp_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nirohelp_topic?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}