Comments on: WordPress Settings API Tutorial

By: Allon

Allon — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:30:16 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the great tutorial.

I have seen a few tutorials on the subject and none of them explain where the changes are saved to.
Once the option is set up, when the admin makes changes to whatever option was created, where is the data saved to when the submit button is clicked? Maybe I am missing something but I cant figure it out

Also, in this tutorial and most tutorials I have seen no one ever mentions which file the code should go into. I just put it all in functions.php but could I put it in any file even a new one I creat in the theme folder?

Thanks

By: salomone

salomone — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:45:21 +0000

Great job, nice tutorial.
Just a question on the validation bit: I was wondering how I could possibly output some text explaining to the user why his input has been rejected.
Any idea?

By: Otto

Otto — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:26:22 +0000

Umm, no… The above code is all working code. I pulled it straight out of already working plugins, with minor changes to make it more generic.

If you’re getting syntax errors, then you’re the one introducing those errors.

By: Squid Billy

Squid Billy — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:24:43 +0000

Your tutorial explains the functions pretty well, but the code is not working. It looks like you have syntax errors in places, and all I seem to get is white screen no matter what I do. It would be really useful if you had a working version of the code posted as the Codex points to your tutorial as a “better example” of making this happen.

By: Eric TF Bat

Eric TF Bat — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:04:38 +0000

Agreed. It’s difficult to follow which strings are meant to be literals and which are programmer-defined. I’m guessing as I go along.

Also, it’s bad style to mix languages — in this case, HTML and PHP. I know it’s the whole raison d’etre of PHP to be able to mix it freely, but just because PHP does it doesn’t mean it’s right. (In fact, the opposite is usually true.) It would be better to use print "

\n"; than ?> throughout. Readability would be vastly improved.

Finally, your clever syntax highlighting thingy doesn’t seem to work with the Linux clipboard, as far as I can tell. That might be a Firefox thing; I don’t know.

But apart from these minor nitpicks, thank you very much — I’m on a deadline to produce two rather fiddly plugins, and you’re a life saver.

By: Otto

Otto — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:29:52 +0000

Look at the tutorial again. Adding the options page is literally the first bit of code in this post.

See that line that says “add_options_page”? That adds the options page and the associated menu item to get there. Next, the bit with the plugin_options_page function? That outputs the HTML to displays the options page.

There’s no code needed to make an admin menu, it does that for you when you add the admin page.

WordPress doesn’t use a file structure for this sort of thing. You specify it in the code.

By: jez

jez — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:20:15 +0000

While this is great, can you say more about files and locations as i cannot get my admin menu to appear, but the plugin is showing in active plugins.

I appreciate the effort you have put into this, but to get here, i have gone through several wordpress documentation pages that seem to see admin menus as something separate so provide a link. In that passing off, no-one seems to mention the file name for where this code goes or another means of including it. For instance xoops has a specific file name you must use in your module for the admin stuff.

Thanks,

By: Jean-Philippe Murray

Jean-Philippe Murray — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:41:39 +0000

Hi,

It seems I can’t used your solution for multiple option screen. It just… Won’t work! I’ve opened a stackexchange on the question, feel free to drop by if you (anyone! ) can help!

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/41113/multiple-options-pages-validation-for-a-plugin

By: idleberg

idleberg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:24:36 +0000

for clarities sake, this nice tutorial would work much better if you used something like “myplugin” for those parts that can be name freely

By: Codeamazon

Codeamazon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:51:35 +0000

I want to tie in the WordPress image uploader so that the user has a familiar experience. Neither answer here shows how I can code that, and I haven’t found it in a day of looking online.

I found the original tutorial here to be clear and very well written — any chance of adding this bit of info Otto?