[theme-reviewers] Tutorial: Incorporating the Settings API in WordPress Themes

[Edward Caissie]

The article is definitely going on my "Reading List" ...

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Rahul Bansal <rahul.bansal at rtcamp.com>wrote:

> Length is worth the info. Didn't get time to read in detail till now.
>
> For ease of navigation, you may break articles into entirely different
> pages/posts and bind them using a series plugin.
> Other reason for this suggestion is that article in series will have their
> own URLs that will have advantages like:
>
>    - We can refer people to particular subtopic by sharing a unique post
>    article
>    - 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.
>
> Series creation may require 1-2 hours of extra time from you!
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks again for taking so much time to write something like this. :-)
>
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> Rahul Bansal | Founder & CEO | rtCamp Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
> Skype: rahul286 | Twitter: @rahul286 | Web: http://rtcamp.com/
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I was worried about the length of the article, but it didn't seem to make
>> sense to split it into multiple posts.
>>
>> 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.?
>>
>> Chip
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Rahul Bansal <rahul.bansal at rtcamp.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Great article... :-)
>>>
>>> Added to - http://make.wordpress.org/themes/about/resources/ (comments
>>> section)
>>>
>>> Timing is good as well! 10 pages gives a lot to explore on weekend! ;-)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rahul Bansal | Founder & CEO | rtCamp Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
>>> Skype: rahul286 | Twitter: @rahul286 | Web: http://rtcamp.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I have just published a tutorial: Incorporating the Settings API in
>>>> WordPress Themes <http://bit.ly/hHjo6n>:
>>>>
>>>>  While others such as Otto<http://ottopress.com/2009/wordpress-settings-api-tutorial/>
>>>>  and Ozh<http://planetozh.com/blog/2009/05/handling-plugins-options-in-wordpress-28-with-register_setting/> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>    - Registering options in the database as a single options array
>>>>    - Initializing default options
>>>>    - Creating a single Theme Settings page (with tabs)
>>>>    - Defining settings page sections and fields
>>>>    - Validating and white-listing user-input form data
>>>>    - Adding Settings Page contextual help
>>>>    - Enqueueing custom CSS for the Settings page
>>>>    - Implementing settings in the Theme template files
>>>>    - Enqueueing front-end CSS
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please give it a read; I hope it is helpful. Also, any feedback,
>>>> comments, corrections, criticism, etc. is welcome, so please comment!
>>>>
>>>> Chip
>>>>
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