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Options page for widget
I started developing a plugin which only required a few options. But over time the number of settings grew, and I want to move most of them to a separate page. I've seen quite a few tutorials about ...
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How do I handle multiple Submit buttons in plugin's option page?
I'm developing my first plugin for WordPress and I'm getting a grasp of the whole hook system. I'm now stuck on a (probably) small issue, that I could possibly circumvent, but I'm afraid of coming out ...
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wp_allow_comments checking for blacklisted words effectively
I have a big list of prohibited words on the DB. The problem Im running to is that no comment is getting through. They are all getting sent to spam. I was looking at comment.php
and found the ...
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Get value from db for custom contact form
I built my own contact form (no plugins) and want to have a secure way to get an emailadress from my option page. get_option and other built in WP stuff doesn't work from within my process.php file.
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Comment Blacklist
I have a list of words that I placed in my blacklist_key option values update_option( 'blacklist_keys', $words);. But I still can make a comment with such words. Any ideas?
I can't answer my question ...
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Full page (no WP admin menus and options) admin theme options
I'd like to drag and drop functionality into one of the admin pages and I've been wondering about the best way to implement it: an iframe or something else?
What I'd like is: Once the use choose the ...
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Wordpress theme options framework, I can't read them in my templates
I successfully created my theme options page using this framework:
https://github.com/devinsays/options-framework-theme
The problems Is that when, for example, I try to load the Option: 'logo_image'
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Incorporating the Settings API in WordPress Themes - by Chip Bennet
I am using the code by Chip Bennett to create a settings options page for my plugin. The problem is that I am getting a Warning error as indicated below that I cannot figure it out. Any help is ...
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Transients API conditional
I have the following transient, but if the user changes the value of $url the transient should not be used. I want to know what is the most appropriate way to use this variable with the transient. ...
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Is there a limit to the number of options you can store in one settings field of wp_options?
I have a theme with an options page. And on that page there are 1083 options. I've noticed that the last 13 are not saving. They were saving at one point, but after I added new options above them, ...
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Reuse form function of widget in an option page
Can I reuse the form function of a widget in an option page to use it to store default values for the widget and its shortcode?
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How to store widget fields data as an array?
I am creating a widget, it needs to store about 10 IDs. Right now I'm using following field method to store each of the ID in a separate field. It stores data of each field in a separately in the ...
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wp_dropdown_categories initial value
I am currently pulling in an option drop-down of a specific category using:
<?php wp_dropdown_categories('child_of=20'); ?>
I would like the initial value of the drop-down to say 'Bedrooms' ...
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How can I update options with javascript?
I'm writing a plugin with an admin screen. I have a set of radio buttons to select the tabs on the plugin's admin page. I also have a 'last_tab' option that allows the administrator to pick up where ...
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Integrating CSS Into a WP Function Call [closed]
Below is a code I use to display post views. It is integrated with an options panel which allows users to choose whether to display it.
I would like to integrate the div class .postviews directly ...
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Can I use add_option for a plugin categories and how?
So I am creating my first plugin for positioning ads around my site. I created one separate table where I store ads with all their options, such as position, expire date, active, name, type etc... But ...
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After added two section to theme options, I can't save the content
I added a section for my options, everything works fine. I added a new section (social) and after that I can't save the content of the "General Options" form. The business section is working. Where is ...
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Option does not save or update upon page refresh
So I managed to get the issue of headers working properly in my theme, but I have a new issue with options though.
I have the three following pieces of code that work in the order I paste them:
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Creating a plugin that will add options. Where should the options menu pages go?
I am creating a plugin for a restaurant theme that will provide a few options to add the restaurant hours of operation. Currently, I use a custom post type to control the restaurant hours but have ...
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Custom Theme Fields in Settings Menu - apply filters to one of those fields?
I found an interesting concepts of adding an additional option to the "General Options" in Wordpress.
/**
* Custom Theme Settings
* see http://digwp.com/2009/09/global-custom-fields-take-two/
*/
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Wordpress options text format
Wordpress converts my theme options text with smart quotes.
I know that to remove problem from posts etc:
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
remove_filter('the_excerpt', 'wptexturize');
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Theme settings default, strange behavior before first save
I was building a theme options page with the settings API. I use an ajax call to compute some settings automatically from other pages / tabs. I noticed that all of the new settings default ("std") ...
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Plugin options autoloading
In the book 'Professional WordPress Development' I found this tip:
As a rule of thumb, if your options are needed by the public part of the blog,
save them with autoload. If they are only needed in ...
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Caching of SQL queries
Within one plugin file I have several calls to the same option in the database via get_option(). Does WordPress do a database query every time I use get_option()? Would it be better to get the option ...
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Creating on-page options for Custom Post Type
I'm creating a plugin for creating Landing Pages.
I use custom post type and custom fields for the landing pages, but i need to add some on-page options for each entry. For example i need to have a ...
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How to use a newly registered setting with a checkbox and the default value 'true'
I'm currently working on a plugin in which I would like to have a new setting (called 'show_introduction') that has the default value 'true'.
I did this by the following which is hooked into ...
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Referencing a logo image from options panel [duplicate]
I've been toying with wordpress on the ac and I'm in the process of creating an options panel for my themes I hope to one day sell.
I'm struggling to find an answer to a question which I hope you ...
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Error: options page not found
This error is really well known and every where I look its either I am not doing:
<form method="post" action="options.php">
or I am not registering my options, which is not the case as seen ...
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Theme Option select values
I'm building a theme options panel and so far been successful, except with the "Select" type option. This is my code:
array( "name" => "Transition",
"desc" => "Choose the type of ...
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Tab from Settings API resetting all options with INSERT INTO
I have an Options menu created with the code from Chip Bennett tutorial, the old code, though, the one from like a year ago (the new one has a much better validation structure, but still, it works ...
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Performance with autoload and the options table
I am playing around with the autoload column of the options table. I didn't find much information about how the autoloaded values are used. I tried a print_r($GLOBALS) and saw that the autoloaded ...
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My first plugin doesn't save the data in options
This is my entire code. It doesn't save the data I enter on the plugin settings page. I don't have a clue on why this happens! Can somebody please help me?
<?php // add the admin options page
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Outputting results from select box option in options panel
I'm trying to figure out how to get the results from a select box option and apply them to my theme. When I use a text input or color picker it works fine. But when I use a select box, nothing is ...
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Plugin getting Cannot modify header information errors
I am trying to build my first plugin but am receiving the following error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ...
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Difference between Option_Group and Option_Name in Register_Settings
I think the title pretty much says it all! I'm working my way through various tutorials on how to add an options page to my test plugin and am struggling to understand the Register_Settings function.
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Is there any other place - besides a theme, a plugin, or a mu-plugin - that an option page might conceivably be used?
I'm creating a helper class for simplifying the creation of an option page in admin that could conceivably be used in a theme, a plugin, or a mu-plugin. I'm trying to make the class as easy to ...
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Wordpress DB: options-table –> 32 gzipcompression?
I just wondered what this row in the Wordpress Database refers to?
32 gzipcompression 0
I stumbled upon it in the WP options table. What if I set the value to 1.
I do already have ...
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How to add options to the plugin page?
I can't find a more or less clear example on how to create additional fields, so may be someone can help me here? Here is my code:
function __construct(){
add_action('admin_init', array($this, ...
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Link blogname and blogdescription to the Options Framework
I'm putting together a Theme Options page, where the user(s) I'm building this for would like to be able to edit a few settings directly from this page, including of which - the Site Title and ...
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How to include stylesheet in custom admin using parent_slug
Using this code from codex:
function my_enqueue($hook) {
if( 'edit.php' != $hook )
return;
wp_enqueue_script( 'my_custom_script', plugins_url('/myscript.js', __FILE__) );
}
add_action( ...
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Ways of dealing with nested arrays within option
I stumbled upon one problem regarding too complicated(at least in my point of view) data structures stored in option field.
Right now I have an array of collections and within each other there is ...
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Site Title and Tagline in Theme Options Page
I'm using the Options Framework Theme to put together an options page. The user(s) I'm building this for would like to be able to edit a few settings directly from this page, including of which - the ...
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How to store accumulate multiple option values in a single array using Options_API
I have created an option array that stores a series of options, along with their values. The problem is that I want to ACCUMULATE these options and store them in the options database. Meaning I would ...
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Make Database query only when option is updated
Below is a DB query I am using to retrieve values and place them in a WP_List_Table. Values are currently being added by add_option, then those values are converted into a custom database table ...
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Filtering a Database Query
In a WP_List_Table example I'm using, I am seeing how to make a general query to the wp_options table in the Wordpress database.
For example, $query = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->options";
I also see ...
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How to store options in an array
I am creating a custom table to display selected options for a page called "Testimonials". The user will enter their options on a "manage testimonial settings" page, and then those options will ...
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Saving widget options from class method
I have a widget class (derived from WP_Widget) that has a method (called via ajax) to update part of its options(the elements order) without the user to click "Save", to set the handler I do from the ...
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options creation for plugins
I am new to wordpress and learning to create plugins.
I want to know how wordpress itself create options in 'wp_options' table for plugin during plugin installation or activation?
How wordpress decide ...
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How do I extract the Alt Text from an image attachment upload via the Wordpress Options Framework Plugin?
I'm currently creating a custom WordPress theme and using the WordPress Options Framework plugin to make a custom options page for my client. I'm able to easily create an image upload option and can ...
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How does object caching work?
I'm looking for a definitive answer here. When object caching is enabled, where do options and transients end up living?
By default, both are stored in the database. But I've heard some references ...
