Title: screen_meta
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# screen_meta( $screen )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#changelog)

[ Back to top](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#wp--skip-link--target)

This function has been deprecated since 3.3.0. Use [WP_Screen::render_screen_meta()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_Screen/render_screen_meta/)
instead.

Renders the screen’s help.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [WP_Screen::render_screen_meta()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_Screen/render_screen_meta/)

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function screen_meta( $screen ) {
    	$current_screen = get_current_screen();
    	$current_screen->render_screen_meta();
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php#L864)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/deprecated.php#L864-L867)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [get_current_screen()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_current_screen/)`wp-admin/includes/screen.php` |

Get the current screen object

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/screen_meta/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [3.3.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.3.0/) | Deprecated. Use [WP_Screen::render_screen_meta()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_screen/render_screen_meta/) | 
| [2.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.7.0/) | Introduced. |

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