Comments on: New in WordPress 3.3: More Useful Help Screens

By: Writing Effective Documentation For WordPress End Users - Goodfav Howto

Writing Effective Documentation For WordPress End Users - Goodfav Howto — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:40:28 +0000

[...] “New in WordPress 3.3: More Useful Help Screens,” Otto on WordPress [...]

By: How to do damn near anything with WordPress – Stephanie Leary

How to do damn near anything with WordPress – Stephanie Leary — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:09:14 +0000

[...] Adding help to your plugin’s screens (see also the WP Help plugin) [...]

By: Effective Documentation Writting For End Users Of Wordpress | WordPress Planet

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 05:19:26 +0000

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By: Incorporating Contextual Help and Support into WordPress Themes - UpThemes

Incorporating Contextual Help and Support into WordPress Themes - UpThemes — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:09:12 +0000

[...] to the previous iteration, the WP 3.3 contextual help is actually quite simple to integrate. Otto Wood wrote a detailed tutorial here.All contextual help-related functionality is handled through the WP_Screen() class, so the first [...]

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:32:08 +0000

Never mind. Sorry I jumped the gun on my problem. Pay no attention to the newbie.

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:13:03 +0000

I’m having problems trying to get my help tabs to work; when I call the get_current_screen() function, I get the following error message:

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/mnich13/public_html/wp-content/plugins/fbttest/fbttest.php on line 103

I’ve tried changing the hook around that calls my help function, but to no avail. The minute I try to reference $screen->id, it blows up.

Any ideas?

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:11:49 +0000

Might also be worth mentioning that you can clear an existing help tab’s content with:
remove_help_tab( ‘the_id_to_remove’ );

and you can clear ALL help tabs on a page with:
remove_help_tabs(); (no args)

The latter was the only way I could find to completely overwrite default contextual help.

By: Faciliter l’accès à l’aide contextuelle de votre plugin #WordPress » imath..

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:56:20 +0000

[...] passant, je vous invite à lire l’excellent article d’Otto sur le [...]

By: WordPress 3.3: Hot or Not?

WordPress 3.3: Hot or Not? — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:43:51 +0000

[...] It’ll be interesting to see how different developers put this new functionality to use. Check out this info from Otto on how to set them up. [...]

By: Jo Landers

Jo Landers — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:20:39 +0000

I'm reworking contextual help for some plugins. To handle the compatibility problem, I'm doing a simple version check.


if ( version_compare($this->wp_version, '3.3' >= 0) ) add_action('admin_head', array($this, 'add_help_tab'));
else add_action('contextual_help', array($this, 'add_contextual_help'), 10, 1 );

Where the 'add_help_tab' function calls the old 'add_contextual_help' function to get the appropriate content. Still trying to figure out how to alter existing help though (without editing core files). As of WP 3.3 RC31, class WP_Screen can not be extended, and the existing help is stored in a private variable so you can't access it directly to make changes using a plugin... Sometimes all you want to do is add a sentence to something, in which case adding another help tab is overkill.