[wp-testers] Wordpress 3.3 beta 1 and Contextual Help

[Chip Bennett]

Will be looking into the improvements over the next few days, to find out
how to take full advantage of the new hotness.

That said: I think the decision not to provide backward-compatibility for
existing contextual help hooks is absolutely TERRIBLE. It's basically
saying, "hey, all you who went the extra mile to provide useful information
to your users: yeah, sucks to be you." The decision seems to go against the
usual WordPress MO of providing backward compatibility, and long deprecation
periods, for just about *everything*.

Rather than harp on it, I'm going to go read up on the new contextual help
system; but I do think we're going to see some flak from this decision.

Chip

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> If you have a plugin or theme that provides contextual help, then
> update it for 3.3. And use the new functionality to make it better
> than it was before.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Frank Bueltge <frank at bueltge.de> wrote:
> > But in the core i Can find solutions for backward compatibility. I had
> the
> > hope, that 3. 3 use this functions and include the strings from the old
> > hooks. It this Not work , then have many customer a big Problems with
> custom
> > helps on gefault area in wp.
> >
> > Send from Mobile, an
> > Sorry für die kurze Mail, vom Mobile gesendet.
> > Am 11.10.2011 17:42 schrieb "Otto" <otto at ottodestruct.com>:
> >
> >> Contextual help has changed drastically in 3.3, and the old hooks
> >> won't work. I'm not sure if backwards compatibility is possible in
> >> this case, given the depth of changes.
> >>
> >> I documented the new help system a little bit on my blog the other day:
> >>
> >>
> http://ottopress.com/2011/new-in-wordpress-3-3-more-useful-help-screens/
> >>
> >> -Otto
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Richard and Kristi Guay
> >> <thaiguay at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I am testing my new plugin on WordPress 3.3 beta 1 (I am assuming that
> >> the
> >> > nightly build is equivalent to this).  This version has broken the
> action
> >> > hooks for the contextual help.  Is the action hook now different or is
> >> this
> >> > an oversight.  Since it came up at the same time the help menu was
> added
> >> to
> >> > the admin bar, I believe it is an oversight.
> >> >
> >> > Richard
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