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Settings API vs Theme Customizer
When would it be appropriate to use the settings API, and when would it be better to use the theme customizer?
Having Googled around all morning, I haven't been able to find any well considered and ...
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How to pass variable to add_settings_section() callback?
I am attempting to automate, as much as possible, the Settings API function calls for each setting in a Plugin. Looping through the options array, and outputting add_settings_section() and ...
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What are the advantages to the Settings API?
Let me preface this by saying that I hardly ever work with WordPress - in fact, the last time I did a site in WordPress was back during 2.2. Yesterday I made quite a mess of everything and asked ...
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Settings API - creating reusable form elements?
I have a set of settings fields:
(...)
add_settings_field( 'Option1', 'Option 1', 'textarea', 'page1', 'plugin_options');
add_settings_field( 'Option2', 'Option 2', 'textarea', 'page1', ...
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How should one implement add_settings_error on custom menu pages?
The Professional WordPress Plugin Development book explains in detail how to properly use the Settings API, and it also demonstrates how to add Menus and Submenus, but unfortunately it doesn't provide ...
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wp_editor() fields on Theme Options Page not saving
(This is sort of a follow-up to this question.)
I'm able to display the two WYSIWYG editors on my theme options page, but the values I enter into the editors aren't saved. I've read a ton of stuff ...
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Settings API - sanitizing urls, email addresses and text
I am asking for advice on best practices on how to write this code. Currently I have simple theme options with text fields, outputting the info in my template. I am currently using this code for the ...
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Using tabs for wordpress plugin
Done my research and found this is how to call the built-in ui tabs jquery script in wp for the admin area but I'm stuck on implementing the other jquery scripts needed that I believe are built into ...
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What's the best method for emptying an option created with the Settings API?
I'm trying to empty an option created with the Settings API and failing.
update_option ( 'my_option', '' ); appears to do nothing, whereas delete_option ( 'my_option' ); destroys the whole option ...
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Add settings fields on options discussion admin page
Problem description
I'm searching for a way to add a settings section/settings fields to the ~/wp-admin/options-discussion.php page exactly where Core calls…
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Default Wordpress settings API data sanitization
It looks to me that when saving data to the database via the settings API Wordpress sanitizes data by default. By that I mean that if I look at the raw settings options in the database they have (at ...
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Settings API - easiest way of validating checkboxes?
I'm using Settings API and I can't get checkboxes to work, if they're set to "false" they're not even being $_POST and that's the point.
Stephen Harris & Chip Bennett explained it, but I believe ...
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Settings API in Multisite - Missing update message
When I use the settings API in a multisite installation and the options page sits at the network level, posting the options to options.php does not work, because the administration page sits at ...
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How do I add settings to the Background Options Page?
I am developing a theme and I wanted to add some extra content to the built in background options page. I know how to use the settings API to create new theme options and settings but I can't seem to ...
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Settings API - save an array of options as one setting (array_push?)
1. Basic settings API callback.
Using Settings API my $sanitize_callback validating function looks like:
(...)
if($type == "foo") {
$valid_input[$id] = $option[$id];
}
else ...
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Settings API with arrays example
I'm using the Wrox WordPress plugin development book as a primary reference for getting started with a new plugin and I understand all settings can be saved as 1 array but the book does't give an ...
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How to Save Different Settings Options Using Settings API and/or the Theme Optimizer
I would like to allow users to save different versions in the options panel using the Settings API and/or the Theme Optimzer.
For instance, imagine that I have styled my site using via an admin panel ...
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Adding labels to Setting titles with API
If I add a setting using add_settings_field(), it doesn't create a <label> around the title so that it can be clicked to focus on the field. Some of the core settings do this, but they just add ...
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Add Admin Menu Inside Construct or Init
I thought I was making headway in my WordPress Development education until I ran across the Boilerplate for WordPress plugins and it uses a class object. I'm fine with that and understand those ...
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Can I dynamically create duplicate fields with the Settings API?
I'm not sure that my title accurately explains what I'm trying to do, but it's the best way I could think of to explain what I'm attempting to do.
I'm writing my first Wordpress plugin, and while ...
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How to display some settings for super admin user only using Settings API
I'm developing a plugin with an options page using the Settings API.
I'd like to have one options array stored for my plugin, but on the settings page, I'd only like some of the settings to be ...
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Trigger custom action when setting button pressed
This is my first wordpress plugin and I'm running a lot of trouble making it work, it almost work fine but I don't find a way to accomplish this specific thing.
Basically I've my custom setting page ...
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How to use the settings API to set multidimensional arrays
I'm writing a course information plugin. Most course info is related to
to a post (a custom post type of 'course'), so I have put the majority of info in the postmeta table. But some info isn't ...
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Which to use to execute code during the saving of a plugin settings page?
I'm writing a plugin with a settings/option page and I want some php code to be executed whenever someone saves the settings on that page and that page alone. Which actions do I need to hook into to ...
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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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How do I flush the rules after saving settings using the Settings API?
I'm using the Settings API to allow the user to toggle the has_archive option on some custom post types. When the user turns archives on or off, I want to flush the rewrite rules. If I had written ...
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Is it safe to post form data via Ajax to the settings api? Am I missing something?
In my Wordpress Admin, I have my theme options set-up using the Settings API. I am trying to save the theme options form using Ajax so that the page does not refresh. The only thing i needed to add ...
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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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Using the Settings API, how should I add multiple values to an option?
I'm trying to add/ update additional values to an option created with the Settings API. I'm trying to do this with my validation callback function, but I'm not getting very far. Here is my code:
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GET parameters interfere with my plugin settings
I have my plugin all set-up using the Settings API and working but what I have is two manual functions in my plugin that can be run by the admin user by visiting the following URL's
<?php echo ...
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Settings API erases itself?
I have two forms created using Settings API, and when I save one of them the other one gets erased and vice versa.
Here's the whole code so you could paste it into your functions.php file and see ...
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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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Import / Export Settings API fields values?
I've been storing all my theme options using Settings API for some time now and it's lacking one functionality.
I have multiple pages (different servers) using my custom themes and I would love to ...
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Validate an option array
We use the default WordPress register_setting() function to validate theme options. This call, for example:
register_setting( 'options-group', 'option1', 'intval' );
Will validate whether or not ...
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How can I insert some extra validation into the theme options' validation function using add_filter?
I'm using the theme options from the underscores (_s) WP theme as a base for my own theme options. If I wanted to insert the validation from the bottom function into the top function's $output array, ...
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Storage of array in settings
I'm creating a plugin that will store some simple layouts to be used in shortcodes.
The shortcode usage will be similar to [shortcode layout="name"]
With this mind I'll need to store each layout in ...
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Settings API and dynamically generated submenu pages
I have the following situation - I'm making a WordPress version of a jQuery plugin and I want the users to be able to have multiple instances of the plugin (with unique content) for their site. On the ...
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Echo all API Settings sections?
Is there a WordPress function displaying all sections registered with add_settings_section()?
I was thinking about SQL query maybe, but have absolutely no idea how and where these are stored, ...
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Settings API - changing add_settings_field() output?
I'm using Settings API and wondering if there's any way of editing default output of add_settings_field() function?
add_settings_field('the_field', 'bar', 'foo', 'page', 'section');
function ...
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wordpress settings api add fields
I am trying to add some code to a theme that will allow the user to change the logo or have some text instead. I managed to find some code that otto posted to do the file upload.
I have added what I ...
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Settings API - adding setting fields dynamically?
Is there a way of adding settings fields dynamically?
I have my own Settings API options generator just like in Chip Bennet's Oenology Theme, everything works perfect but I can't find a way to create ...
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settings API: how to create a multi checkbox with blog categories?
i need to create a callback function with a multi checkbox with all the web/blog categories as multi options.
my add_settings_fields are:
add_settings_field(
'select_page', ...
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How to save array of datas in option page by setting api?
I am trying to create my own first plugin but I am coding novice so please guide me to the right direction.
This plugin is to set the post expiry date based on the user's role. Now I am stuck at ...
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Persist fields with Setting API
In my admin panel, if I use a sanitizing callback register_setting() and the field does not pass through my custom validation, I've been preventing the database from updating by using return FALSE; ...
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wordpress settings API and option array structure
how do you get the settings API to save options that are in an array structure like this:
$array = array (
array(
'id'=> '1',
'name'=> 'tom',
...
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Echoing a variable inside a function
In the interest of automation, instead of making a long list of code like this
<td valign="top"width="50%"><p><label for="Facebook"><strong>Facebook ...
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Wordpress Settings API: saving multiple rows of similar data
I've been experimenting with the plugin options starter kit but can't find a way to save multiple rows of similar data using the Settings API. Example of what I'm trying to save:
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Possible to add another setting to 'Front page displays' setting for Custom Post Type
Let me set the scene:
I have a CPT that will work on a multi-site installation and some of the sites will be in a different language. For example my CPT is Case Studies I would use a URL structure ...
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Plugin settings not saving
I'm having a devil of a time getting my plugin settings to save. I've gone through the code so many times I have to think I've simply missed something. I'm following the Setting API, but any changes ...
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Settings API store serialized data in the database (The Right Way)
Im trying to learn Settings API and I'd appreciate if someone could clarify this for me.
I want to store serialized data in the database. Im using a class to do all the work for me.
Heres what I ...
