contextual_help is deprecated since version 3.3.0

Same issue.
Thanks for the hotfix!

Hi,

I came here to report this as well.

I’m keeping it deactivated until there’s an update.

Best regards,
Gabriel

Thanks for posting this, the update worked

@howseknits ?

There hasn’t been an update in 5 months…

@gabrielberzescu

There hasn’t been an official update from the plugin author, but the fix in post 1 works.

oh, ok — i see

Hey there – I have the same issue – but I don’t have the plugin installed: WP Mail Logging by MailPoet

Is there maybe another plugin that uses the contextual_help?

Looks like there are a few possibilities if you Google “contextual_help is deprecated since version 3.3.0”

I deactivated my plugins, one at a time, until the error stopped, which pinpointed my issue to the mail plugin.

I deactivated all of my plugins one at a time and the message still appears. Could it be anything else?

I found the one:
https://de.www.ads-software.com/plugins/portfolio-post-type/

are there any suggestions on how to change contextual_help
It appears 4 times in the mega-portfolio-post-type.php

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by steffenbaumgart982.

Refer to this comment in the FAQ:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/deprecated-use-of-contextual_help/

line 345 in \wp-content\plugins\wp-mail-logging\src\WPML_OptionsManager.php can be changed to:
add_action( 'add_help_tab', array( &$this, 'create_settings_panel' ), 10, 3 );

This should be updated in the source code. Disclaimer: I haven’t done any of my own testing to validate this fix but WordPress throws no errors when applied.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by dalingzaf.

@esweeney113yahoocom if it’s not in the plugins, then it’s in the theme.

Plus one for the same error after updating to WP 5.4 with WP Mail Logging plugin activated:

Deprecated: contextual_help is deprecated since version 3.3.0! Use get_current_screen()->add_help_tab(), get_current_screen()->remove_help_tab() instead. in …/wp-includes/functions.php on line 5088

Also confirmed same issue with BackupBuddy plugin (iThemes) and reported to them as well.

No WP Mail Logging plugin installed, same error (…/wp-includes/functions.php on line 5088). Have little plugins and all are mu-plugins via composer so cannot/should not really disable any.

here it was the plugin page-scroll-to-id that shows the error in the backend when debug mode is set to true