[theme-reviewers] Theme Options Page

Fri Jan 7 12:09:04 UTC 2011

It's a good idea, but as far as requirements go, I imagine that we'll hold
off at least until WP core has a theme uninstall hook (analogous to the
plugin uninstall hook that currently exists).

If we're lucky, we'll get our hook in 3.2. :)

Chip

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Pritam P Hans <pritam.hans at gmail.com> wrote:

> I believe a WP theme should also have an option to delete the database
> entries made by it so that there is no data left by a theme when the user
> wants to remove it completely. I have tried to incorporate it in Shaan WP
> theme.
>
> Maybe, this should be made mandatory to help users keep their databases
> tidy.
>
> Rgds,
> Pritam
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:30 PM, <
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>>   1. Re: Article on how to create a Theme Options Page for
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>> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 05:42:08 -0600
>> From: Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>> Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] Article on how to create a Theme
>>        Options Page for WordPress
>> To: theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
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>> Best practice (and most importantly, the *accepted* best practice with
>> respect to WordPress Themes) is to put all options in an array:
>>
>> 1) It protects your options from potential conflict (which is another
>> point:
>> you didn't prefix your options names with "theme-slug")
>> 2) It makes white-listing much easier
>> 3) It makes manipulating options much easier
>> 4) It makes removing options from the DB much easier
>> 5) It makes reading the DB much easier
>>
>> (I'm sure there are more.)
>>
>> *Any* tutorials put out by the Theme Review Team should be consistent on
>> matters of guidelines and best practices. There are some conventions that
>> I
>> don't personally like, either - but for the sake of standardization (and
>> not
>> creating confusion), I put aside my personal preferences.
>>
>> Chip
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > By the way, I personally don?t like having all the options in a single
>> > registered array. It?s ugly to call for a global variable?s array key
>> > instead of the option directly and it?s confusing to give the name for a
>> > HTML input field arrayname[arraykey]. Just my 2 cents on this.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [mailto:
>> > theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Tara
>> > *Sent:* Friday, January 07, 2011 9:22 AM
>> >
>> > *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> > *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Article on how to create a Theme
>> Options
>> > Page for WordPress
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for the feedback,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I corrected the grammar errors, changed the capability to
>> > ?edit_theme_options?, rewritten some portions where I omitted things and
>> > bundled the entire code into a child theme for Twenty Ten, which I
>> tested
>> > and is working.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [mailto:
>> > theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Edward
>> Caissie
>> > *Sent:* Thursday, January 06, 2011 3:42 PM
>> > *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>> > *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] Article on how to create a Theme
>> Options
>> > Page for WordPress
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > There are a few minor typos and a grammar issue or two, otherwise ... I
>> > believe the capability should be 'edit_theme_options' versus
>> > 'manage_options' based on Justin Tadlock's discussions.
>> >
>> > Good Read! Definitely adds more insight into the Settings API.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Cais.
>> >
>> > PS: The first time I clicked on the link it took me to the page, every
>> > other time I click or use the URL (copy&paste) it wants to open my feed
>> > reader ... EAC
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Thought I make this public,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Here?s an article on how to create options pages for WordPress themes
>> using
>> > the Settings API
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.onedesigns.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-wordpress-theme-options-page
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I would appreciate any feedback as I probably missed some things out.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Daniel
>> >
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