Opened 3 years ago
Closed 2 years ago
#15314 closed task (blessed) (fixed)
Contextual Help for Network Admin
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 3.1 |
| Component: | Network Admin | Version: | 3.1 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch i18n-change |
| Cc: | andrea_r, john@…, heymrpro@… |
Description (last modified by PeteMall)
This is the master ticket for adding contextual help for the network admin screens. See #14435
The following screens are missing contextual help:
- Network Dashboard
- Sites
- Add New
- Edit Site
- Info
- Options
- Users
- Themes
- Users
- Add New
More to come...
Attachments (10)
Change History (53)
Related to #15346, use "Documentation on X" instead of "X Documentation".
comment:10
dougwrites — 2 years ago
- Cc heymrpro@… added
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nacin — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
- Keywords needs-patch added; has-patch removed
Kicking this back to Andrea, so text, terminology, and Codex links can be updated as appropriate, as a lot has changed.
comment:17
nacin — 2 years ago
- Component changed from Multisite to Network Admin
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andrea_r — 2 years ago
- Keywords has-patch i18n-change added; needs-patch removed
Last minor changes. Everything looks good.
comment:19
andrea_r — 2 years ago
not manifesting users this time. ;)
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zeo — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
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SergeyBiryukov — 2 years ago
Found one more misprint and some trailing whitespace, see the patch above.
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nacin — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
Thanks!
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SergeyBiryukov — 2 years ago
Help on the Settings tab says “See the contextual help on the next tab”, however there are no more tabs. I've changed the string (see the patch). Or should we remove it?
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dougwrites — 2 years ago
The question now is whether we want all four tabs to say, "See the contextual help on the other tabs."?
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nacin — 2 years ago
We reordered them so we need to make sure the third tab (which used to be last) isn't missing the text.
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SergeyBiryukov — 2 years ago
The text is present on the third tab too. What is the best wording then?
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dougwrites — 2 years ago
@nacin: one advantage of having all four tabs say "see the other tabs" would be if they were ever reordered again with a different one last, that last one would still be accurate.
comment:30
dougwrites — 2 years ago
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
We had a nice little discussion about this a few hours ago, but forgot to re-open the ticket. I think Sergey's latest patch is more necessary than mine, but both are very simple and, in my opinion, an improvement.
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nacin — 2 years ago
Patch is fine. Will handle in the morning.
Sent a note to wp-docs regarding Codex link changes. I think we're going to modify the network admin codex links using a new structure. That'll be the last thing before string freeze tomorrow.
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follow-up:
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nacin — 2 years ago
I'm just going to add the same help text across all four tabs.
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nacin — 2 years ago
Oops, wrong ticket reference: [17044]
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nacin — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
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in reply to:
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SergeyBiryukov — 2 years ago
Replying to nacin:
I'm just going to add the same help text across all four tabs.
“See the other tabs” string is left on the Themes tab. I guess it should be removed for consistency.
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nacin — 2 years ago
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nacin — 2 years ago
What's left:
- A new sentence on plugins.php (when in the network admin) that explains network activation/deactivation.
That's it.
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andrea_r — 2 years ago
What about something like, "Click the Netowrk activate link will activate the plugin on every site. plugin options will still need to be managed on a per-site basis." and the rest of those particulars & gotchas can be codexed.
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nacin — 2 years ago
Should there be a network-specifix Codex article to link to in this instance?
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andrea_r — 2 years ago
Now that I think of it yes. It may exist as a blurb somewhere, might not need a whole page.
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andrea_r — 2 years ago
The Users menu needs a line something like "To search for user details, input the full username, or partial text with a wildcard." If it's too late, we can codex it.
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PeteMall — 2 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from reopened to closed
I'm marking this as fixed after talking to Ryan. Any other details can go in the codex.

Related: #15346, #15376