@ontario777, @wireb – Just chiming in before I close this, assuming you disable tips either by clicking the don’t show again link in one of them or checking the setting, then the only time you would see those red notices is either when we release an update requiring database updates which need to be manually started, have a major changelog update that should be seen, or if we release a new extension. The last one hasn’t happened in more than a year as we are working to consolidate more, the first is very rare as well, and the second only occurs for “minor” updates that include new features or major changes to how things used to work.
In all cases except new extensions I’d say these are need to knows and have no plans on disabling them. We already provide options as you found to disable tips.
Further I did see your review @ontario777, bit off the mark unless we’ve missed something. Not the part about the tips being annoying, but rather that we show them globally outside our own admin pages.
The only messages that would ever be marked global are required database updates mentioned above, otherwise quietly tucked away as I intended it to be and all are dismissible except required change notices.
As a long time WP user myself I wouldn’t have built it to annoy users on every page, I hate that as well.
That all said I opened an issue to make the “Update/New Feature” notices optional.
Take care.
