[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2415: New hooks for previous and next post

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#2415: New hooks for previous and next post
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 Reporter:  majelbstoat                            |        Owner:  majelbstoat
     Type:  enhancement                            |       Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal                                 |    Milestone:  2.0.5      
Component:  Administration                         |      Version:  2.0.1      
 Severity:  normal                                 |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  hook previous next posts bg|has-patch  |  
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Changes (by majelbstoat):

  * milestone:  2.1 => 2.0.5

Comment:

 You can write plugins in a way that handles all cases.  If you write a
 plugin that registers a non-existant filter, nothing goes wrong.  It just
 starts to work 'better' when the filter becomes available.

 Adding a filter isn't dangerous at all.  You could safely assume in 99% of
 cases (except here, where I raised the ticket myself) that nobody's using
 that filter - why would they when it doesn't exist?  At the very worst, it
 is temporarily redundant, until plugins are written to take advantage of
 it.  And here, not even this is the case.

 Gengo, the plugin for which I found a need for this filter, has had code
 in place to take advantage of this hook for 8 months now.  It still works
 without it, but the posts aren't filtered correctly.  As soon as this is
 in the core, Gengo will filter the posts better, with no modifications.

 I'd really like this in 2.0.5 too.  Feel free to put it back to 2.1 if
 there's a compelling reason.

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