Bavota,<div><br></div><div>While some users might need some re-training, it will ultimately benefit them to be able to find all Theme-related settings under one Menu location ("Appearance"). Also, especially complex Theme Settings pages can be separated by tabs - and in extremely complex situations, you could use multiple Pages under "Appearance".</div>
<div><br></div><div>(I'm currently working with a Theme developer whose Theme has over 190 options; this developer has been able to provide a logical UI for even this many options, while using a single Settings page, under "Appearance".)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chip<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:01 AM, c.bavota <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c@bavotasan.com">c@bavotasan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hey Chip,<div><br></div><div>My themes have been using <i>add_menu_page()</i> and I think some of my users might end up getting confused with the change of the theme options link location. Plus, I would like, if possible, to keep a uniformity between my free themes and my premium themes. My Premium themes have multiple theme option links to organizing design and layout options, and using a new menu panel makes it easier to group these together. I know this might not be a valuable reason, but I just wanted to state my case.<div class="im">
<br><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div>
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<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">You need to use add_theme_page().<div><br></div><div>We realize that there may be edge cases; we are more than happy to work with you to find a workable solution for such cases.</div>
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:19 PM, c.bavota <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c@bavotasan.com" target="_blank">c@bavotasan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="im">Is it now required to use <i>add_theme_page()</i> or can we still use <i>add_menu_page()</i> for the theme's options page?<br><br><div>Thanks.</div></div><div><div class="im">
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