 working with help topics what is a help topic  a help topic describes a concept or steps to accomplish a task related to a feature provided by one or more modules or themes if the core search module is enabled these topics are also searchable where are help topics listed  the toplevel help topics are listed at help links to other topics including nontoplevel help topics can be found under the related heading when viewing a topic page how are help topics provided  modules and themes can provide help topics as twigfilebased plugins in a project subdirectory called helptopics  plugin metadata is provided in yaml front matter within each twig file pluginbased help topics provided by modules and themes will automatically be updated when a module or theme is updated use the plugins in core modules help helptopics as a guide when writing and formatting a help topic plugin for your theme or module how are help topics translated  the title and body text of help topics provided by contributed modules and themes are translatable using user interface translation provided by interface translation module topics provided by custom modules and themes are also translatable if they have been viewed at least once in a nonenglish language which triggers putting their translatable text into the translation database how can users search for help topics  to enable users to search help including help topics you will need to install the core search module configure a search page and add a search block to the help page or another administrative page a search page is provided automatically and if you use the core claro administrative theme a help search block is shown on the main help page then users with search permissions and permission to view help will be able to search help see the related topic configuring help search for stepbystep instructions additional resources help topics standards 