I think for 2.4 we should do an early audit of all the filters and actions in the core and ensure that they follow the following set of rules:
- All names should be unique
- All names should be relevant to the calling context
- All filters should pass in relevant context information
This should then ensure plugins can easily filter just the things they want to.
This is to avoid messes like the_title
./wp-includes/post-template.php: return apply_filters( 'the_title', $title );
./wp-includes/comment.php: $post_title = apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title);
./wp-includes/classes.php: $output .= $indent . '<li class="' . $css_class . '"><a href="' . get_page_link($page->ID) . '" title="' . att
ribute_escape(apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title)) . '">' . apply_filters('the_title', $page->post_title) . '</a>';
./wp-includes/deprecated.php: $string .= apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title, $post);
./wp-includes/deprecated.php: $string .= apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title, $nextpost);
./wp-includes/link-template.php: $title = apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title, $post);
./wp-includes/link-template.php: $title = apply_filters('the_title', $post->post_title, $post);
./wp-includes/general-template.php: $text = strip_tags(apply_filters('the_title', $arc_title));
