I need help to finish this last bit of php code. I’m trying to create an admin options page similar to in admin>settings>discussions like how a user can select an avatar, but instead of selecting an avatar, the user selects a style option that makes a change to the theme (by enqueueing a CSS file … Read more
I am creating my first WordPress plugin. It is a simple plugin that extends Visual Composer allowing you to remove the element options in VC (shown in the screenshot). On the plugin “options” page I am creating a form to show/hide the elements. Here is my code: // Going to add a conditional statement here … Read more
I am following a WordPress book and am trying to create a plugin and have got an option page showing. In this page I have two text fields (which values are stored in one array). I am trying to add custom validation (for example if empty). The validation is set in the third argument in … Read more
Many plugins call get_option() to fetch their settings right in the main plugin file, without using any action hook. Is this the way it is meant to be used? I am asking because it seems to me that calling get_option() straight away has two downsides: Extensibility: It makes it hard if not impossibile for devs … Read more
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() function. Since I work object-oriented I use a function which returns the options: private function get_settings() { $styles = get_option(“style_settings”); return $styles; … Read more
I write a wordpress plugin. My plugin has options. All options are in one group, ‘pluginname-settings’. All option names are uniform and look like “pluginname-settings[‘option-name’]”. Some code to illustrate my case: register_setting( ‘pluginname_options’, ‘pluginname-settings’, ‘pluginname_validate’ ); add_settings_section( ‘section-one’, ‘Name of Section One’, ‘section_one_callback’, ‘pluginname_options-sectionname’ ); add_settings_field( ‘optionname’, ‘First Option’, ‘my_text_input’, ‘pluginname_options-sectionname’, ‘section-button’, array( ‘name’ => … Read more
Referring to Settings API in Multisite – Missing update message It states that: For network option pages the correct form action URL is: wp-admin/network/edit.php?action=your_option_name Note: without a “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” in front Okay. Let’s try it: <form method=”post” action=”wp-admin/network/edit.php?action=your_option_page”> Obviously, my options form actually gets submitted to: http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/network/wp-admin/network/edit.php?action=your_option_page Now, adding a “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” in front: <form method=”post” action=”/wp-admin/network/edit.php?action=your_option_page”> … Read more
I want to save the value of input data and retrieve it, I have gone through the tutorial of otto press. I’m new to creating WordPress plugin and what I can’t understand is once I click the Save changes button, the page shows: Setting saved My question is where do the value of input go … Read more
I seem to recall seeing a tip somewhere saying that it was a best practice to save a plugin’s version number as an option. I’m working through releasing a plugin, and I’m considering whether to do it, but since all the plugin does is make a widget (right now, it literally has no other options), … Read more
