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 any joined-up examples of this. Whilst I’ve managed to get most of it working, I can’t figure out how to properly implement add_settings_error on … Read more
Can you please let me know how I can add a checkbox to Setting API in creating Custom Options Page? I am using the following code to add a txt box which is working perfectly but I am totally confused how to add chechbox to the setting API and options. I just tried ti update … Read more
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 wp-admin/network and WP expects the page to be at wp-admin. I added a function that checks whether this WP installation is a … Read more
I’ve been following the WordPress Settings API tutorial series of this guy: http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/the-complete-guide-to-the-wordpress-settings-api-part-1/ So far, I’ve been successful at doing the basic thing. Now, when implementing tab, I’m facing problem. Problem 1: The Tabs are not working. All the fields are being displayed on both the tabs. Section 1, should be displayed on Tab One … Read more
I’m thinking this may be more of a problem with my PHP rather than my use of the settings API, but I can’t seem to get WordPress to save an array of data for a multi-select box. The multi-select box corresponds to a custom meta field, and the select options are the custom post types … Read more
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 for my plugin, it saves all with no trouble at all, but the question its, how can I … Read more
I am developing plugin right now, and I have one questions about best practices and conventions. What I need ? My plugin is going to store some predefined object, list of objects (or just arrays/key-value pairs) and it will be possible to add new object and fill its fields. For example my object will have … Read more
Weird question, how can I run a custom function AFTER my theme settings are saved? I see that the register_settings() function has a sanitize callback, but that runs before the settings are changed. I need something to run after they’re saved. Is there an action or filter I can use to do that? EDIT – … Read more
So, I followed the accepted answer of this post Possible to add another setting to ‘Front page displays’ setting for Custom Post Type but didn’t entirely work, had to compare against the accepted answer in this post. Can’t output do_settings_sections . Can’t understand why Now, it actually works using the following code //Add settings to … Read more
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 several questions here trying to get a basic menu plugin working. I now have the plugin … Read more
