Admin Help: 18 November, 2013

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@ninnypants has been working on the js portion of the Admin Help plugin the basic framework for the javascript is here: https://github.com/ninnypants/WordPress-Admin-Help/blob/core_js/js/adminhelp-plugins.js
This will be the format for calling in the content to display with the tooltips. The docs themselves will go into static php files so we can use normal php i18n functions. As soon as this is ready to be merged, I’ll add it to my repo so people can play with it and test it and start messing with the CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site. stuff.

the other thing that needs to be tackled is the Help Overview. This will somewhat resemble the existing help tab content but will display by default and show an overview of what’s on the page. This is controlled by the options I added last week to the user profile, so this can be thrown in now. @ninnypants made the suggestion that we could try using the admin_notice hook and style that to look like the dashboard welcome screen in mp6.

Once @ninnypants’ code is ready, we can start hooking in the tooltip stuff. Next meeting is Next Monday 17:30UTC

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