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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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Page Options Saving But Not Updating In Backend
I have created a custom options page for a slider that you can upload slides to. Everything works great except when trying to save the data. It will get saved and I can use it on the front end. But ...
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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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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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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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How can you upload an image from within a settings page?
Is there an easy way to include an upload box to your settings page?
I am building an Open Graph options page and I like users to upload a standard image directly from that page.
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What's the difference between Options & Settings?
And which one should I use?
What's the difference between Options API and Setings API?
I have a theme with over 100 admin options, how should I register & store them? At this moment I'm using ...
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API for wp menu hacks
Question changed due to new developments!
I was loooking for a way to hack the menu items in the custom menu page to add a "hide" checkbox and other options. The only way I found is to override the ...
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Why does WordPress use serialize rather than json_encode for the options table?
I have a basic understanding of serialize (I come across it often when I'm migrating WordPress installs) and I just discovered json_encode.
Given that serialize causes so much trouble with replacing ...
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Define Wordpress image size in img tag
Is there a way to output a image in a pre-determined size (Ie; using add_image_size) using just the img tag?
For example, how can I make sure that the image that is echoed using this tag is the exact ...
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Get category slug and display it on a query_post
I just read "How to create option page for wordpress theme" in wp.tutsplus.com - I have a problem with getting categories .
there is two parts to my question
- Part A - Get category slug and ...
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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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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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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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NHP Theme Options Framework
I have a small problem, I downloaded and installed great program NHP theme options framework, I have no problem with the configuration of individual options, but I have a problem with calling them. ...
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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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Multisite: How to add Custom Blog Options to new blog setup form?
Seems like a simple enough requirement, but I'm struggling:
I want to add an option field to the "Add New Site" -- a simple text option is fine.
How do I do this??
I need to save this custom blog ...
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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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Get data from Theme Options and use them into meta options field in custom post type
I want to grab data from my theme options and have to use them in meta option fields in custom post types. I know how to grab theme option data and show them on front pages but don't know how to grab ...
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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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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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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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Template file location for get_option() [closed]
Using the get_option() function to retrieve custom theme options seems to only work when placing
$options = get_option('plugin_options');
within index.php , yet all my references for using the ...
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Referencing a logo image from options panel [duplicate]
I've been toying with wordpress on the ac and I'm in the process of creating an options panel for my themes I hope to one day sell.
I'm struggling to find an answer to a question which I hope you ...
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Error: options page not found
This error is really well known and every where I look its either I am not doing:
<form method="post" action="options.php">
or I am not registering my options, which is not the case as seen ...
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Theme Option select values
I'm building a theme options panel and so far been successful, except with the "Select" type option. This is my code:
array( "name" => "Transition",
"desc" => "Choose the type of ...
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Tab from Settings API resetting all options with INSERT INTO
I have an Options menu created with the code from Chip Bennett tutorial, the old code, though, the one from like a year ago (the new one has a much better validation structure, but still, it works ...
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Performance with autoload and the options table
I am playing around with the autoload column of the options table. I didn't find much information about how the autoloaded values are used. I tried a print_r($GLOBALS) and saw that the autoloaded ...
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wp_dropdown_pages() in theme admin page
Scratching my head on this one.
I have a theme option page, where I need the user to select a page to show at X location.
I am using wp_dropdown_pages() to list my pages, and they show.
But, I can't ...
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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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How do I add CSS options to my plugin without using inline styles?
I recently released a plugin, WP Coda Slider, that uses shortcodes to add a jQuery slider to any post or page. I am adding an options page in the next version and I would like to include some CSS ...
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How should I use register_setting, add_settings_section, & add_settings_field in my plugin's options page?
I'm working on a settings section for my plugin, and after reading over Wordpress's documentation which is in ROGUH DRAFT status, and also the Creating Options Pages - which is also in "transition", ...
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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 ...
