Length is worth the info. Didn't get time to read in detail till now.<div><br></div><div>For ease of navigation, you may break articles into entirely different pages/posts and bind them using a series plugin.</div><div>
Other reason for this suggestion is that article in series will have their own URLs that will have advantages like:</div><div><ul><li>We can refer people to particular subtopic by sharing a unique post article</li><li>permalinks will contain keywords like "Register Settings and Define Form Sections/Fields" etc. This wil give better search engine visibility. I am less concerned about traffic gain that wil result, but my intention is to indirectly help Google give better article so developers can avoid following "wrong" article.</li>
</ul><div>Series creation may require 1-2 hours of extra time from you!</div></div><div><br></div><div>On sidenote, after taking quick overview, I felt that the article missed information about "file upload" box. (I searched "upload" keyword on "all" article page to crosscheck". Many times I find developers complaining register_settings has issues with file-uploads. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks again for taking so much time to write something like this. :-)</div><div><br clear="all">--<br>Rahul Bansal | Founder & CEO | rtCamp Solutions Pvt. Ltd.<br>Skype: rahul286 | Twitter: @rahul286 | Web: <a href="http://rtcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://rtcamp.com/</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Thanks!<div><br></div><div>I was worried about the length of the article, but it didn't seem to make sense to split it into multiple posts.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you think it would be useful to do a more slimmed-down follow-up post, that leaves out some of the advanced topics, like Settings page tabs, contextual help, etc.?</div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#888888">Chip</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Rahul Bansal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rahul.bansal@rtcamp.com" target="_blank">rahul.bansal@rtcamp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Great article... :-)<div><br><div>Added to - <a href="http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/resources/" target="_blank">http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/resources/</a> (comments section)</div><div><br></div><div>Timing is good as well! 10 pages gives a lot to explore on weekend! ;-)</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Chip Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chip@chipbennett.net" target="_blank">chip@chipbennett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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All,<div><br></div><div>I have just published a tutorial: <a href="http://bit.ly/hHjo6n" target="_blank">Incorporating the Settings API in WordPress Themes</a>:</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><span style="color:rgb(85, 85, 85);font-family:TeXGyreScholaRegular, 'URW Bookman L', Garamond, 'Century Schoolbook', 'Bookman Old Style', Georgia, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:23px"><p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:2em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial">
While others such as <a href="http://ottopress.com/2009/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial/" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(85, 136, 170);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(85, 136, 170);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Otto</a> and <a href="http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/05/handling-plugins-options-in-wordpress-28-with-register_setting/" style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(85, 136, 170);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(85, 136, 170);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Ozh</a> have done yeomen's work in explaining how to implement the Settings API, I have not yet come across anything that really put everything together, and explained the process and implementation from beginning to end, in a way that even the less-experienced Theme developers (like me) could easily understand.</p>
<p style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:2em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial">
This tutorial will attempt to fill that gap, by providing examples of current (as of the pending release of WordPress 3.1) best-practice implementation, not merely of the Settings API, but of Theme Options implementation as a whole, including:</p>
<ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:1em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:10px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial">
<li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">Registering options in the database as a single options array</li>
<li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">Initializing default options</li><li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">
Creating a single Theme Settings page (with tabs)</li><li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">
Defining settings page sections and fields</li><li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">
Validating and white-listing user-input form data</li><li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">
Adding Settings Page contextual help</li><li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">
Enqueueing custom CSS for the Settings page</li><li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">
Implementing settings in the Theme template files</li><li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:25px;line-height:1.1em">
Enqueueing front-end CSS</li></ul></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please give it a read; I hope it is helpful. Also, any feedback, comments, corrections, criticism, etc. is welcome, so please comment!</div>
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