[wp-docs] Should change_post_object_label() be in Codex?

[Andrea Rennick]

So basically it's an example of an existing filter - which you do have to
write your own function for.

I agree this is a great example use-case. Some people can read the docs,
but learn better from example code.


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Manuel Schmalstieg <webdev at ms-studio.net>wrote:

> That's exactly what I wanted to know. Just by looking at the code,
> it's hard for me to tell if that custom_detail_post_labels() function
> is less official than, say, the register_post_type function. Both look
> similarly clean, or hackish, depending on your milage. It could very
> well be "official but undocumented".
>
> Now, I don't know how widely spread this particular piece of code is,
> but as you can see, it's circulating. Just a bit of wishful thinking:
> for a theme designer, it would be great to have a "popular wisdom"
> section in the Codex that would document such methods (with a
> disclaimer telling that it's not officially supported), and some
> rating and comments system that would allow to measure the general
> usefulness and popularity of such recipes (similarly to the plugins).
>
> Or is wordpress.stackexchange supposed to do exactly that? Maybe, but
> I think it would be good to centralize things more. Stackexchange is
> useful, but extremely disorganized. Having to hunt for information
> between Codex, stackexchange, forums and personal developer blogs can
> induce schizophrenia after some time.
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Bryan Petty <bryan at ibaku.net> wrote:
>
> > As long as the Codex contains official documentation, I would say no.
> > It's too easy to confuse the two. If there were a "user contributions"
> > section on every page, that would be different though.
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