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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]>: >> > >> >> 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 >> >> <[email protected]> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > wp-testers mailing list >> >> > [email protected] >> >> > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> wp-testers mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > wp-testers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> wp-testers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers >> > > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
