Questions tagged [settings-api]
The Settings API, added in WordPress 2.7, allows admin pages containing settings forms to be managed semi-automatically. It lets you define settings pages, sections within those pages and fields within the sections. New settings pages can be registered along with sections and fields inside them. Existing settings pages can also be added to by registering new settings sections or fields inside of them.
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How to sanitize settings API value
I am working on a Plugin. I am using Settings API like below.
register_setting( 'sports_api_key', 'sports_api_key' );
How can I sanitize settings API Text value here ?
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Transmit headers and footers via API from one site to another
I'm trying to have the same header and footer as my WordPress site on another site (that doesn't use WordPress) with a different domain and hosting. The manager of the other site wants it via API but ...
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Trouble with WordPress Settings API: Form Submits When Fields Called Directly, Fails When Using Callbacks
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I'm working on a WordPress plugin and facing an issue with the Settings API. I have a settings page with two forms. The first form uses do_settings_sections() to call fields from a public function (...
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how to test for options(fields) in settings API?
I've created an options page in wordpress with this code:
<?php
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'rtwhc_add_admin_menu' );
add_action( 'admin_init', 'rtwhc_settings_init' );
function rtwhc_add_admin_menu(...
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Tab Nav and WordPress Settings API
I created a settings page for my custom theme on WordPress and created the various metaboxes via Settings API.
To try to keep the page neater I created Nav Tabs, the only problem is that I can only ...
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move setting data from wordpress api to codestar freamwork
I am coding a plugin that uses the Star code framework
It should be mentioned that I had written this plugin using WordPress API before. Now I want to integrate and make it more advanced, but I ran ...
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How to use register_setting()
When creating a settings page, each new settings field need to be registered individually with register_setting() or can I pass the slug from the setting section into it to register the fields?
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Settings API not Saving to Database or Display
I am developing a payments gateway, and wanted to have a page with a form to save authentication credentials for reaching out to an external API used for payment. I made a settings page using ...
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Update custom settings field in plugin
I have the code below for a simple Settings page for my custom plugin, where the user can enter their webhook URL. My issue is that when the user first enters a value and hits the submit button, ...
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How to add custom settings to the menu of custom post types?
Not sure if this has been asked before. But how can we add custom settings to the menu of custom post types? Or add custom fields for an entire post type and you can edit them? For example:
This is ...
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Should I escape the html for the settings field created with add_settings_field?
I am using a class that handles the output of WP settings fields.
This class uses the function "add_settings_field" which receives as a "callback" parameter the name of the function that prints the ...
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WordPress Settings API unable to save settings
So I can't seem to get the Settings API to save a field properly, I feel like I've followed ever single step, but I'm having no luck, so I wanted to reach out and see if someone might be able to spot ...
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Theme Customizer performance drops when adding a lot of settings
I maintain a plugin in which we currently add ~730 settings to the Theme Customizer. We use a few custom controls for panels, sections and settings and loading the preview is a very painful experience ...
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Is it possible to get a list of options for a specific options group?
When registering options in WordPress, you are required to supply a "settings group name" along with the name of the option itself.
register_setting( string $option_group, string $...
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Why aren't these WordPress options being saved to the database correctly?
I have a plugin for editing certain options already stored in the database. It creates an options page under Settings with a simple form that populates each field with whatever values are stored in ...
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How to get specific setting by settings_fields()?
I am working on a plugin and on the settings page I have 2 settings
and I want to show Only one setting "backgroundColor" so how should i do that?
This is the code:
<form action="...
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The Settings API - What is the purpose of default value in register_setting?
I'm trying to wrap my head around the Settings and Options APIs as I'm writing a simple plugin.
One thing that has really stomped me is the possibility to add a default value to an option when calling ...
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Displaying validation message in options-general.php
I have added a setting field in the general settings page. The field and the validation work, but the validation error message does not show.
<?php
add_action( 'admin_init', '...
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How to get bool with `get_option()` when already registered setting with type `boolean`
When I register a boolean setting using register_setting() I already pass the data type:
register_setting(
option_group: '…',
option_name: '…',
args: [
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Settings API not saving values to database
Here is what I'm attempting to do:
I have two fields called Client ID and Client Secret.
I would like to save each individual item in the database as the following keys: instagram_client_id and ...
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Saving plugin's settings in 1 field in json format
This is a question about performance. I've used the Wordpress Settings API in order to register fields and for a plugin that has 30+ fields that can cause a huge amounts of lines of code, in addition, ...
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Multisite Equivalent of `register_setting`?
Working on converting a custom plugin to run in multisite. I want the settings to apply globally, not per-site. I've converted all of the get_option calls to get_site_option and the equivalent for ...
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How I can Make two input field at add_settings_section
How I can make two input fields in the add_settings_section?
I want the First Input type to be text
The second Input type is the Select option
and Inside Foreach
and here is an exmple:
function ...
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Settings API form - submit with AJAX
I'm creating a plugin where I have a dashboard that is done with Settings API. I'm trying to save data from that form via AJAX.
Form:
public function agy_dashboard_page() {
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<form id=&...
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Single sanitization callback for multiple fields
hope everyone is doing good! How can I have a single sanitization callback for multiple fields?
Here is my code
add_action('admin_init','settings');
function settings(){
add_settings_section('...
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Settings API - sanitize_callback is not called and it leads to an incorrect behavior
I am in the process of creating some options / the options page for my plugin.
In the context of this I have only added two checkboxes so far to store boolean values. The creation, display on the page ...
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Call require_once form admin page with checkbox
I'm creating a custom WP plugin. Inside my main plugin file (functions.php) I've includes the following line of code so a second file (module_2.php) with additional code will be loaded:
define( '...
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how to save checkbox data for custom setting?
I am creating one custom setting panel, my codes are
function custom_text_field_html(){
$text = get_option( 'homepage_text' );
printf(
'<input type="text" id="...
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update_option_{$option} not working (do function after options are saved)
Below is my code for a simple plugin settings page. It works and saves an option ("EN", "CZ").
However, what I intend to do is run a function after the options get saved (see at ...
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Add description to custom plugin setting
Using add_settings_field(); i am able to add my custom setting:
add_settings_field('AUTOPLAY', 'Auto Play', 'printAutoPlayCheckbox', 'my_settings');
function printAutoPlayCheckbox()
{
$id = '...
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Settings API not saving
I've been through this code a hundred times and I just can't spot what's wrong with it.
What it does:
✓ display options page, settings section, setting fields
✓ go through the sanitation function at ...
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Retrieve my custom settings in the settings/ API endpoint
I did read this post: Serialized settings in rest api and while I am actually convinced the answer is what I need, I cannot make it work.
What I am trying to achieve is to get my own settings ...
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When should I use register_setting() and add_settings_field()
When the time comes that one wants to create a settings page, one stumbles upon two semantically similar WP functions called:
register_setting()
add_settings_field()
I read the docs and am confused ...
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Settings Page won't save
I've created a simple settings page with just one page, one section and two fields, it all displays just fine, but I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't save. There's either a typo or I'm ...
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Extend my plugin settings with hooks
I need to add a new options to my settings, the new filed shown in settings page but not saved.
My add_settings_field callback:
public function field_option_callback()
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Whats the best practise on how to store json data from a custom settings page?
I'm creating my first Wordpress Plugin and want to let the user configure multiple urls which he can name and safe as "channels".
I've set up a settings page and wanted to store the data ...
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register_setting & add_settings_error validation issues with multiple fields
I've been trying to use the Settings API for the first time. I managed to piece together a working example but I'm stuck on how to make multiple input fields required. Right now I have an admin ...
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website is not loading home page (moving from one server to another server)
I have a wordpress site and i want same site with other domain name at same server. I moved all files and folders to new domains directory and also successfully moved database. My admin panel is ...
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Is it possible to have a global parameter page which allows to configure other plugins in the same place?
I have a wordpress mu installation which brings together several different sites for clients and I would like to provide them with a settings page to manage the settings of other plugins.
In short, I ...
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Callback is not called in add_settings_field() when passed as part of an array, but recognises that it's there. It's passed Class to Class using OOP
I am building a plugin, I created a new admin page and subpage, and inside that subpage, I want to add some Settings. That's why I'm building them using the Settings API.
I am using Composer and ...
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Performance of several get_option() calls
I am currently working on my first WordPress plugin. To save and output certain settings I use the native Settings API. Now the question arises, how performant are several calls of the get_option() ...
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Multiple checkbox doesn't work in wordpress settings api
I was creating a checkbox of roles n WordPress. I successfully generated them but the checked function doesn't seem to work.
Also, it is throwing this warning.
Warning: Illegal string offset '...
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Custom plugin: how do I call a PHP file if settings option is set to true?
I am making a custom plugin with various functions that do different things. I have created a settings page using the Settings API to save data to the options db. That works fine. Now I'm trying to &...
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Settings API: Setting default option via 'get_option' fails
All my options are stored in one array test_hs_options
I have select list settings field ( test_hs_options['duration_months'] ) which stores the selected month (1-12).
For this settings field, I would ...
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Sanitization and validation input fields - Settings API
I'm creating a plugin and I am a quite newbie. So I have difficulty to properly validate and sanitize input fields.
This is my code:
register_setting( 'wp_banner_settings_fields', '...
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Warning: This page allows direct access to your site settings. You can break things here. Please be cautious!
I am currently developing a wordpress theme and it has 2 custom admin settings sub pages which is created with wordpress settings API. However, in first sub page i can apply settings and save without ...
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Is there a standard technique or API for getting the site header image?
There is this function:
get_header_image()
which can be called from within WordPress. Is there a way to access this externally, i.e. from the API? The use case might be a header for an external RSS ...
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How to save custom settings api fields with custom section fuction
I am creating wordpress theme on a single options page. I have customized the default do_settings_fields and do_settings_sections functions. my fields are displaying fine but when i am trying to save ...
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Wordpress theme options checkbox default checked state
I am developing a custom theme. I added a checkbox with the settings api. They all work except for the ones that are checked by default (checked="checked"). They do not save when they get ...
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Setting 'autoload' to 'no' with Settings API
I've looked at the Settings API codex page, https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API, and I can't find anything related to setting autoload to no for any options using the Settings API.
Is there any ...
