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

[Chip Bennett]

Replying to myself, it looks like backward-compatibility has been restored
for contextual help, as per Otto's comment here:
http://ottopress.com/2011/new-in-wordpress-3-3-more-useful-help-screens/comment-page-1/#comment-9864

Changes at the speed of beta...

Chip

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> wrote:

> 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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