id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
18880,Back compat for the admin_user_info_links filter,nacin,nacin,"Brought up by otto42 in #18197, the admin_user_info_links filter is now gone.

Given the backwards compatibility workarounds this filter required for the 3.2 dropdown, I figured it couldn't be ''that'' difficult to push these into the admin bar.

Warning, reading this patch may make you susceptible to nausea. It works. Um. Yeah. Definitely leaning toward wontfix. Was still quite fun to write. :-)

I searched through the plugins directory and only found about a dozen plugins using the filter: two from otto42, one from dd32, one from mitcho*, a few admin simplification plugins, and a number of Howdy tweakers.

The admin simplification plugins would need an update anyway, and we all love Howdy, so this further supports a death. So I'm inclined to post to wpdevel and contact each developer as well.

One more note, this filter always kind of sucked. When it was introduced in 3.0, the bars separating the links were included in each link, rather than the links being imploded, and the link itself was raw HTML. (Note the fun regular expression in my patch.)

Plugin directory scan results below:

{{{
/plugins/admin-trim-interface/admin-trim-interface.php:142:		add_filter( 'admin_user_info_links',                   array( &$this, 'admin_user_info_links' ) );
./plugins/admin-trim-interface/admin-trim-interface.php:206:	public function admin_user_info_links( $links ) {
./plugins/better-howdy/better-howdy.php:18:add_filter( 'admin_user_info_links', 'better_howdy' );
./plugins/blog-id-in-site-admin-menu/blog-id-in-site-admin-menu.php:28:	add_filter('admin_user_info_links','blog_id_in_howdy_greeting');
./plugins/dirtysuds-kill-howdy/howdy.php:31:add_filter('admin_user_info_links', 'dirtysuds_howdy');
./plugins/edit-howdy/edithowdy.php:206:add_filter( 'admin_user_info_links', 'edithowdy_update_howdy_message', 9 );
./plugins/edit-howdy/edithowdy.php:209: * This function filters the admin_user_info_links function to apply our new Howdy message.
./plugins/howdy-tweaks/howdy-greeting-tweaks.php:33:		add_filter( 'admin_user_info_links', array( &$this, 'the_info_tweaks' ) );
./plugins/quick-admin-color-scheme-picker/quick-admin-color-scheme-picker.php:9:add_action('admin_user_info_links', 'qacsp_link', 10, 1000);
./plugins/simple-facebook-connect/sfc-login.php:100:add_filter('admin_user_info_links','sfc_login_admin_header');
./plugins/simple-twitter-connect/stc-login.php:156:add_filter('admin_user_info_links','stc_login_admin_header');
./plugins/wp-simplify/wp-simplify.php:458:    add_filter('admin_user_info_links', array('WP_Simplify','admin_user_info_links'), 0, 2);
./plugins/wp-simplify/wp-simplify.php:485:  function admin_user_info_links($links, $current_user) {
./plugins/wp-su/wp-su.php:57:		// 3.0+ add_action('admin_user_info_links', array(&$this, 'admin_header_su'));
}}}

* For fun, test my patch with http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-admin-color-scheme-picker/ -- that's what necessitated the CSS changes.",defect (bug),closed,low,,Toolbar,3.3,normal,wontfix,let-it-ride,trepmal@… mitcho@…