Help for Export/Erasure and Privacy admin pages need text and links.

[xkon]

Both of the new Tools don't have any Help tab at all at the moment so that needs to get added and the Privacy (settings) page has a somewhat of abstracted text but nothing specific with a link that points to # since there are no online docs yet.

I think we have 2 options to make it to the release in a nice way:

1] We remove the Help tab from the Privacy(settings) as well.

2] We have to add Help everywhere with the appropriate explanations and links to online docs for people to read more if they want.

Any extra suggestions or texts that we could add?

[desrosj]

Bumping to 4.9.7 so enough thought can be put into providing helpful text.

[desrosj]

Moving to the new Privacy component.

[netweblogic]

We definitely need to mention what gets deleted/exported and what does not (whether on .org or inline). After working on some integration of my own plugins, I'm noticing not much information is given about what gets deleted and what does not (e.g. user posts and author info) and the only way to understanding it is trying it out yourself.

For example, currently, posts submitted by authors are not exported or erased. Comments and user accounts are not erased either, the comment is just anonymized and the user account remains. I appreciate what exactly is removed/deleted is changed down the line.

Additionally, like the privacy policy, it may be helpful for other plugins to also have a way to hook into this help and state what they delete/anonymize too, possibly deriving from a list generated by WP containing things it deletes/anonymizes/keeps.

[desrosj]

Moving all tickets in 4.9.7 to 4.9.8.

[desrosj]

4.9.8 RC is out. Punting to 4.9.9.

[desrosj]

Added some screenshots of what the Posts page has. I think some of these tabs might actually work for us.

[desrosj]

Punting to 5.0 since it falls outside of the 4.9.9 focus.

[desrosj]

This still needs copy. Punting until some is written.

[garrett-eclipse]

#48243 was marked as a duplicate.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43994

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43994

[burtrw]

Soo, I admit, I got lost in trying SVN and I'm a total novice with pull requests, etc. But I did test this locally and added a combination of some text at the top of the screen and text for the "Help" tab. I tried to follow examples from other core pages and re-use some of the info in docs.

I also couldn't figure out how to do both files in one PR, so sorry about that. Grr.

[garrett-eclipse]

Thanks @burtrw this is a great start, I've moved this to review for 5.5.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43994

[burtrw]

I re-did the PRs to combine them into one. I also moved some of my suggested text from the into area of the screens to the Help tab to better match tone, length, and type of text on other core screens.

[davidbaumwald]

@garrett-eclipse Is this still doable with 5.5 Beta 1 landing in a few days?

[davidbaumwald]

With Beta 1 landing tomorrow, this ticket is being moved to Future Release. If any maintainer or committer feels the remainder of this ticket can be resolved in time, or wishes to assume ownership during a specific cycle, feel free to update the milestone accordingly.

[xkon]

Thanks for all the work here @burtrw !

43994.diff​ is a refresh of the latest PR to apply cleanly.

This has been waiting for quite a while and it would be nice to finally have some help tabs in 5.7 so I'm marking it just in case it can make it.

The text looks good to me and I've also made a small change to add some sprintf so we can correctly use the admin_url() where needed.

Also adding a needs-testing & needs-copy-review for a second look on the text as well just in case something isn't fully clear from the information provided :).

To test:

• Apply the 43994.diff​ patch.
• Navigate to your wp-admin and from the menu select Tools, Export Personal Data & Erase Personal Data
• You should now have a Help button (top right of the screen along with screen options) available for these screens. Preview at export_help.jpg​ & erase_help.jpg​

[hellofromTonya]

Before and after applying 43994.diff patch. Works as expected.

[hellofromTonya]

After applying the latest patch, works as expected. Removing needs-testing. Adding commit.

[SergeyBiryukov]

In 50147:

Privacy: Add help tabs for Export Personal Data and Erase Personal Data screens.

Props xkon, burtrw, netweblogic, desrosj, hellofromTonya, garrett-eclipse.
Fixes #43994.

Closed with changeset https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/50147

Closed with changeset https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/50147

Closed with changeset https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/50147

[SergeyBiryukov]

Follow-up: #52430

[SergeyBiryukov]

Follow-up: #52970