<div dir="ltr">The best two options:<div><br></div><div>1) Use add_theme_page() for your options page, and point users to this Codex page:</div><div><a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Theme_Options_Screen">https://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Theme_Options_Screen</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>2) Hook into the Customizer, and point users to the built-in Customizer</div><div><br></div><div>Part of the benefit of using Themes hosted in the official directory is that users will have a consistent UX for configuring Theme options. For that reason, I think an admin notice is overkill.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Towfiq I. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tislam100@gmail.com" target="_blank">tislam100@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">thanks for the clarification guys. Can I display an admin note to let users know that they can change the theme options from the theme options page? I always get asked how to change the theme options of my themes by new wordpress users.<div>
<br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Emil Uzelac <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emil@uzelac.me" target="_blank">emil@uzelac.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">the redirect can cause the issues with the customizer </div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Towfiq I. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tislam100@gmail.com" target="_blank">tislam100@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">on a different note, is it possible to redirect the user to theme options page after activating the theme? If so, how?<div>
<br></div><div>Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:58 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wordpress@thinkupthemes.com" target="_blank">wordpress@thinkupthemes.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thanks Harish,<br>
<br>
Great idea. I'll add a recommendation for the plugin to be installed using TGM activation. Thanks, I'll remove this and take your advice.<br>
<br>
Afzaal<div><div><br>
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Quoting Harish <<a href="mailto:me@harishchouhan.com" target="_blank">me@harishchouhan.com</a>>:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
Any reason why you want to roll in the twitter widget in your theme? Simply<br>
show a message after activation to help people download the plugin. Will<br>
make your theme smaller and if the users change theme, they won't lose their<br>
twitter widget.<br>
<br>
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Hello all,<br>
<br>
I'm in the final stages of completing my WordPress theme and think people<br>
may find it useful so am thinking about trying to get it into the WordPress<br>
repository. I've noticed a few warnings however that have appeared when<br>
running theme-check.<br>
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1. base64_encode error in the framework SMOF. I used this because of the<br>
referral on <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Frameworks" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/<u></u>Theme_Frameworks</a>.<br>
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2. base64_encode in the Twitter feed widget which I've packaged into the<br>
theme <a href="http://wordpress.org/plugins/tweetscroll-widget/" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/plugins/<u></u>tweetscroll-widget/</a>.<br>
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If anyone can shed any light on if these are major errors I'd really<br>
appreciate your help. I really want to make sure that my themes are 100%<br>
safe so am spending a lot of time on finding any errors.<br>
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Thank you so much in advance.<br>
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