Meitar

<p>Make your site’s on-screen admin help tabs more helpful by adding custom help tabs or additional sidebar content to any screen of the WordPress Admin Dashboard’s built-in “Help” menu simply by placing help files in a special folder.</p>
<p>This plugin looks for files located in your current theme’s <code>admin-help/</code> folder and, based on their name, adds their content to the WordPress on-screen help menuing system. The files should be written in <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/" rel="nofollow ugc">markdown</a>.</p>
<p>You can augment any screen’s help tabs or help sidebar, including screens created by other plugins. The name of the help file determines which screen in the WordPress admin area the file’s content will be added to.</p>
<p>You can add help content in any language, and the plugin will automatically load the correct language file for your site. This makes translating help content easy.</p>
<p>For instance, if you run an English website and want to augment the built-in help provided by WordPress core or a custom plugin shown on the user’s profile editing page, add a file at <code>YOUR_THEME/admin-help/en_US/profile.md</code>, where <code>YOUR_THEME</code> is the theme folder. (For a Spanish site, add a file to <code>YOUR_THEME/admin-help/es_ES/profile.md</code>.)</p>
<p>The rules used by the plugin to determine which file to load on which screen are as follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Each help file is contained within a directory matching the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_locale/" rel="nofollow ugc">locale string of the WordPress installation</a>. Control the locale string by changing the WordPress language setting.</li>
<li>File names reference the <code>$action</code> and <code>$id</code> members of the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_screen/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>WP_Screen</code></a> class.</li>
<li>Files can be optionally suffixed with a numeric priority (lower numbers display first, above the content of files with larger numbers as per <code>WP_Screen</code> documentation).</li>
<li>Files can be optionally prefixed with <code>sidebar-</code> indicating that the file contains content intended for the help sidebar rather than a tab of its own.</li>
<li>The special filename <code>sidebar.md</code> is appended to the sidebar on every WordPress admin screen page where on-screen help is shown.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>For plugin or theme authors</strong></p>
<p>To use WP Screen Help Loader in your plugin, all you need to do is:</p>
<pre><code>function my_plugin_add_custom_help () {
    new WP_Screen_Help_Loader(plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) . 'help');
}
add_action('admin_head', 'my_plugin_add_custom_help');
</code></pre>
<p>Now put your localized help contents into the <code>help/YOUR_LANGUAGE</code> directory in your plugin directory. That’s it!<br />
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WP Screen Help Loader

Easily add custom on-screen help to the admin area of your WordPress website.

Viktor Szépe

<p>Toggles human and machine language (aka ID-s) on admin pages.</p>
<h4>Only for development!</h4>
<p>This plugin shows you the ID-s of almost all form fields including selects, checkboxes and radio buttons like in <code>wp-admin/options.php</code>.</p>
<p>It works only on WordPress Settings API-like formatted — not necessarily API generated — admin pages. E.g. <code><input></code> elements cannot be wrapped in <code><span></code>.</p>
<h4>Activation</h4>
<p>You can find the plugin’s checkbox in standard Screen Options (upper right corner). This checkbox could be overwritten — thus hidden — by poorly written plugins. To restrict Machine Language to a certain admin page, copy this to your <code>wp-config.php</code>:</p>
<pre><code>define( 'MACHINE_LANGUAGE_HOOK', 'load-options-reading.php' ); </code></pre>
<p>For example this line causes to run only on Settings / Reading.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Basically all input ID-s are displayed in place of labels, actually <code>for</code> attributes of labels</li>
<li><code>select</code>-s get a title showing all option values comma separated (hover over <code>select</code>-s with your mouse)</li>
<li><code>option</code>-s get values appended in the form of “original option text|value”</li>
<li>Radio button labels will show: “name|value”</li>
<li>Descriptions (<code>p</code>-s and <code>span</code>-s with “description” class) will be hidden, this way Machine Language will clean up all admin pages, descriptions are hidden by CSS, so there’s no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_unstyled_content" rel="nofollow ugc">FOUC</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Other notes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Radio buttons or checkboxes with empty value are displayed with the “Empty Set” Unicode character: “? ” (U+2205) ( e.g. Settings / Permalinks / Default )</li>
<li><code>select</code>-s with empty values are not</li>
<li>The plugin’s checkbox in Screen Options is effective immediately</li>
<li>The code is designed as a must use plugin, so there is no separated Javascript or CSS file</li>
<li>State of Machine Language is saved as a user option so it is a per user setting</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<p>Development goes on on <a href="https://github.com/szepeviktor/machine-language" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.</p>


WP Screen Help Loader vs Machine Language