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Wordpress API Menu/Submenu Order
I'm developing a child-theme using Wordpress 3.4.2 and the development version of the Options Framework by David Price. This is my first theme and I'm relatively new to this, so I've had a look into ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Option Tree over the Customization API?
I'm relatively new to WordPress theme development, and I had to create a theme with options available. I did a Google search to see what are the possibilities, and I read articles about such, and read ...
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Wordpress Settings API error
Hi I am trying to creating some custom options for a template I am developing but I seem to be getting an error:
Warning: Illegal string offset 'show_header' in ...
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Is it possible ( or advisable) to allow open access to the new theme customizer for potential clients?
I've been using the new theme customizer and it really has me thinking how awesome it would be to allow potential theme buyers/clients etc to play with the customizer for a demo theme (without being ...
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How to Dynamically Resize WordPress Image On-The-Fly (custom field/theme option)
So - at a client's request, I am in need of being able to resize an image not the standard WordPress way... but from an image pulled-in from a theme option. I can't simply use the custom_header area, ...
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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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Best practices for a Style/CSS based theme options page?
I would like to create a theme options page based only on changing the site wide CSS styling. For instance body/container background colors, font-sizes, font colors, etc.
I have accomplished this by ...
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Setting multiple default background images?
The following code lets me set a default background image. Is it possible to set multiple custom backgrounds?
add_theme_support( 'custom-background', array(
'default-image' => ...
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Add a new checkbox in theme options
I'm trying to add a new option to a theme options panel to hide/show the comments links in the theme template files.
I've got the option to show up in the panel, but there's something wrong in that ...
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How to make a newly registered site on multisite network “live” only when the user is ready
By default, a new site created on a multisite installation is "live" and viewable by everyone (if they know the address) right after the user creates it.
What is the best approach to changing this ...
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Can I install Analytics before deciding on a theme?
I haven't decided what theme to have on my WordPress site yet.
But I do want Google Analytics on the site.
Before installing Google Analytics on the site, do I need to decide on the theme?
i.e. ...
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Theme Options Panels, What are some good examples from Frameworks or Premium Themes?
I really like https://github.com/devinsays/options-framework-plugin
Does anyone know any other good implementations of an options panel from a Framework or from another premium Theme? I think its a ...
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How to use media upload on theme option page?
I want implement upload logo to my theme option page. Currently I follow this code
What I have done for now load a related jquery for the media upload
function load_only() {
add_thickbox();
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Modify CSS via Theme Control Panel
Hi to all I'm trying to create an advanced control panel for my first Wordpress template but I'm not able to add a function that I will need.
The function that I'm trying to add is the possibility to ...
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Submenu pages delete settings from options array when saved
I'm writing a theme and adding a menu with several submenu pages. It works fine, except that I'm trying to use only one array to save all the settings into the database and this is causing some ...
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How to set the default value of a option in a theme?
$shortname = "nuod";
array( "name" => "Custom Logo URL",
"desc" => "Enter the link to your site's custom logo.",
"id" => $shortname."_logo",
"type" => "text",
"std" => ...
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Add a preview to a Wordpress Control Panel
I'm trying to create a new wordpress template and inside it I added a Control Panel, inside this control panel there is an option that allows user to choose where he want's to place a on a map, I try ...
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Can You Export Theme Settings From WordPress Multisite?
I do local WP development on a WordPress Multisite instance. What is the best way to move theme settings from there to the live instance? By theme settings I am talking about widgets and theme ...
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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 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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How to add Color Picker in Theme Options for the following?
I have a landscaping09 theme.
This is what I want:
A theme options page with the following options:
->Theme color background change (with colorpicker) or url of the image
->General Navbar color ...
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Click link on plugin/theme page and open the contextual help on a specific tab
I've added a help section using the add_help_tab() function. I'd like to be able to click a link somewhere on the theme/plugin page and have the help panel open at whichever tab I need. Can someone ...
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Upload multiple images via theme options
Is there a simple script out there that would allow multiple images to be uploaded via my theme options page (Which is based on this script - ...
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Adding a checkbox to the theme customizer
When trying to add a checkbox to the theme customizer it seems to be 'always' selected. If you try to deselect it you cannot, almost as if there is some JS code forcing it to stay selected.
I am ...
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Secure Validation of wp_editor in Theme Options
So I just found this great WPSE thread about security for themes/plugins. It answered most of my questions but it was created before the new wp_editor() function was built.
I have two TinyMCE editors ...
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reason of splitting theme files to multiple files
I can create my theme without splitting it into separate files. Why do theme developers split WordPress theme into a few single files like header.php sidebar.php and etc?
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Theme Options page with tabs
I have a theme that I'm developing from an HTML template I have. I'm also designing an options page along with a plethora of plugins built-into the theme itself. I've chosen a tabbed interface and I'm ...
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How to make alert for new version on theme options?
Let say my theme host on my server. User download my theme and use it. Now I want notify @ alert for new version of my theme.
Example to show "New version has been release. Please download at ..."
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Adding a description to theme customizer controls
How could I add a description to $wp_customize->add_control? I've found I really need to include a short description on some of the controls but it doesn't look like it's possible.
I noticed you ...
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Select front page and blog page in custom theme settings page
Im creating a theme which have a custom setting page. I know the best method to choose a static page is by going to Settings -> Reading, but my client wants to have all in the same place.
I already ...
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Separate backend “Widgets” page for each language
Im currently trying to make my backend work with multiple languages.
Im using qTranslate as my translation plugin.
So far I have accomplished a custom option page with multi-language support. When ...
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WordPress Nonce and check admin referer help needed
Just before I start please note that I am new at any type of WordPress/PHP security. Few days ago friend of mine asked me to create Theme Options for his Theme, all set and working fine, however he ...
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How to prevent escaping when saving HTML code in an option value?
I have a Theme Options page where the user can add certain options like Facebook links, etc. One of the options is for some ad code and when saving it as an option it gets escaped over and over again.
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Best practice way to implement custom sections into a WordPress theme
I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to implement custom sections in a WordPress theme. For example I'm making a theme that will have four featured sections on the homepage. These sections ...
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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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What is the best way to export and import theme options?
So what is the best way to create an export and import feature, I tried serialize() and urlencode() on an array of options to be used in a url like so:
export.php?data=(long string), and use $_GET ...
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Two Ways Of Creating Wordpress Options Pages
I'm about to create my own options pages for my WordPress theme and I'm a bit confused.
I've seen a lot of themes that used arrays to generate options pages, it looked like this:
$options = array (
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How to change Wordpress theme to one column?
Currently I'm using The Morning After Theme (http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/themorningafter/)
It lists one-column as a feature, so how do I change it to one-column? The default is three columns.
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Need help understanding/coding with Settings API
So I did something like below, but I get just (I am expecting a Facebook textbox?)
I hope its not too messy. I am new to Settings API ...
add_action('admin_init', function() {
...
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Can I use theme options to change two things at once?
Possible noob question -- please be nice.
I'm doing up a theme options page using the sample from Themeshaper, and one of the options I want to have is to set the width of the sidebar.
To do this ...
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How can one utilize a variable as a callback function name for add_settings_field
I'm trying to cut down on the amount of code that is in my theme options function. I'm adding my settings like so: add_settings_field($k,$v,$callback,$the_options,$the_group,$args);
This works for ...
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How can I show more than 15 themes at a time in the admin menu?
I have a lot of themes in my test wordpress site. I get a little frustrated that I can't show more than 15 at a time.
In pages and posts you can click "screen options" to choose the number, but it ...
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Uploading files in admin panel?
I want to allow my users to upload files in admin panel, but I'm not sure where should I upload these files and how the script should look like?
<p>Please provide link to a file or click ...
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Is it safe to post form data via Ajax to the settings api? Am I missing something?
In my Wordpress Admin, I have my theme options set-up using the Settings API. I am trying to save the theme options form using Ajax so that the page does not refresh. The only thing i needed to add ...
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theme options echoing multiple times
I tried to strip down the Twenty Eleven theme options page and add my own fields correction: I followed a tutorial somewhere, but when I try to echo the data, it comes out multiple times.
Here is my ...
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Theme Options: If There is No Input, Don't Display?
I have built a custom options panel which allows site owners to enter their social profiles. I then use the second code to make the links appear in the theme.
When no link is entered in the options ...
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WordPress: update_option, don't update empty options?
How would I go about not letting empty data into wordpress?
<?php
foreach($_POST['eirepanel_inline_ads_options_name'] as $post_eirepanel_inline_ads_options_name):
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Wordpress theme options vs custom post types
For dynamic content across a wordpress website, is it a better practice to create new post types for updating content or using theme options?
I personally find theme options a little more time ...
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How to set different settings for a mobile theme?
My desktop version of wordpress theme requires using a 'static' page as the start page as it has custom shortcodes etc.
While this is good, when it comes to my mobile theme, sadly the 'static' page ...
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How to add an export function to a custom Option Theme Page
I'm creating a new Wordpress template and I have a question:
I've added a custom Option Page to my new template (you can see what I'm doing Here and Here) but now I would like to add a new function.
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