[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26495: Dashboard "At a Glance" hooks changed

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#26495: Dashboard "At a Glance" hooks changed
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 Reporter:  nacin             |       Owner:  nacin
     Type:  defect (bug)      |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  3.8
Component:  Administration    |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  blocker           |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  has-patch commit  |
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Comment (by mrwweb):

 Appreciate the desire to make it easy to add new elements, but the new
 filter prevents plugins from adding new headings (and therefore sections)
 to the At a Glance widget. (I realize that I can still hack out of it with
 an empty list item but that's gross.)

 I'm the author of [http://wordpress.org/plugins/post-status-menu-
 items/screenshots/ one of the plugins] that was using the old hooks. I had
 updated for 3.8 compatibility prior to RC2, but found it broken yesterday
 and tracked down the issue to this change.

 The primary list of stuff in "At a Glance" is really just post type
 counts, so it doesn't make sense to tack on additional random other
 numbers without some type or organizing or ordering.

 If the `rightnow_end` action preceded the version and privacy setting
 information, I could hook to that, but it would be weird to stick a list
 of Post Statuses on after that information rather than immediately after
 the post counts.

 It suspect it's took late to do much about this issue, but I wanted to at
 least mention this.

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