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How should one implement add_settings_error on custom menu pages?

The Settings API offers all sorts of labour saving features and future proof code. I find it really odd that it's not designed to work with plugins using custom admin menus. Is there any reason for this? Is the situation likely to change in future?

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You might want to clarify what do you mean by "custom menus". – Rarst♦ Jul 21 '11 at 21:52
Custom admin menus? – jnthnclrk Jul 21 '11 at 21:54

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The Settings API works just fine on any Admin page; it doesn't care where it is, as long as you tie the settings form to the registered setting, and provide a valid callback function.

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It does? Damn, I'm doing something wrong then. wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/23701/… – jnthnclrk Jul 21 '11 at 22:31
can you explain how to tie the settings form to the registered setting? – jnthnclrk Jul 22 '11 at 11:10
Simple: match the first argument in register_setting() to the argument passed to do_settings_fields() and to do_settings_sections(). – Chip Bennett Jul 22 '11 at 12:31
Oops; make that settings_fields(). – Chip Bennett Jul 22 '11 at 12:40
Unfortunately, that seems to break the add_settings_error functionality. – jnthnclrk Jul 22 '11 at 12:43
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