[theme-reviewers] add_theme_page()

Josh Stauffer joshstauffer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 02:07:37 UTC 2011 

And a tweet from me.

Josh


On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:

> Added a Tweet, too ...
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> Good job, tweeted as well :)
>>
>>
>> *Emil Uzelac* | ThemeID | T: 224-444-0006 | Twitter: @EmilUzelac<http://twitter.com/emiluzelac>| E:
>> emil at themeid.com | http://themeid.com
>> *Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.* - Albert
>> Einstein
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>
>>> *jaw drops*
>>>
>>> Now *that* is an awesome tutorial! Well done, Daniel!
>>>
>>> (Tweeted)
>>>
>>> Chip
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I wrapped this into and article. Hope it helps you and all developers
>>>> in need out there:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.onedesigns.com/tutorials/separate-multiple-theme-options-pages-using-tabs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [mailto:
>>>> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Sayontan
>>>> Sinha
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2011 11:24 PM
>>>>
>>>> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] add_theme_page()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That would be a relief. Let me give it a try.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Daniel Tara <contact at onedesigns.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Creating tabs is as easy as this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> function sayontan_admin_tabs( $current = 'general' ) {
>>>>
>>>>                 $tabs = array( 'general' => 'General', 'layput' =>
>>>> 'Layout', 'advanced' => 'Advanced' );
>>>>
>>>>                 $links = array();
>>>>
>>>>                 foreach( $tabs as $tab => $name ) :
>>>>
>>>>                                 if ( $current == $tab ) :
>>>>
>>>>                                                 $links[] = "<a
>>>> class='nav-tab nav-tab-active'
>>>> href='?page=sayontan_options&tab=$tab'>$name</a>";
>>>>
>>>>                                 else :
>>>>
>>>>                                                 $links[] = "<a
>>>> class='nav-tab' href='?page=sayontan_options&tab=$tab'>$name</a>";
>>>>
>>>>                                 endif;
>>>>
>>>>                 endforeach;
>>>>
>>>>                 foreach ( $links as $link )
>>>>
>>>>                                 echo $link;
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> if ( isset ( $_GET['tab'] ) ) :
>>>>
>>>>                 $tab = $_GET['tab'];
>>>>
>>>> else:
>>>>
>>>>                 $tab = 'general';
>>>>
>>>> endif;
>>>>
>>>> switch ( $tab ) :
>>>>
>>>>                 case 'general' :
>>>>
>>>>                 // Whatever
>>>>
>>>>                 break;
>>>>
>>>>                 ...
>>>>
>>>> endswitch;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *From:* theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org [mailto:
>>>> theme-reviewers-bounces at lists.wordpress.org] *On Behalf Of *Sayontan
>>>> Sinha
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2011 10:47 PM
>>>> *To:* theme-reviewers at lists.wordpress.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [theme-reviewers] add_theme_page()
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ideally, it would still have just one Theme Options page under
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> appearance, and then use tabs or something else on its own page to
>>>> separate the options out.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is much easier said than done. I have been working towards getting
>>>> tabs in place on one page (multiple calls to add_theme_page makes things
>>>> look quite ugly), but there are simply too many limitations with the whole
>>>> API to make this work effectively. Let me try to explain.
>>>>
>>>> *The Scenario:*
>>>> My theme has several options. Putting them all on one page causes a lot
>>>> of issues, like sluggishness of the back-end and interference with
>>>> PHP-Suhosin protection settings (though Suhosin can be tweaked). I
>>>> originally had a 2-level tab system, with horizontal tabs at the top for
>>>> different sections of settings, then vertical tabs within each section (that
>>>> is similar to the kind of settings that the other folks are talking about).
>>>> The tabs were all handled by JQuery. This works fine with a small number of
>>>> options, but with a large number of options, the sluggishness shows up in
>>>> the back-end. That was when I removed the horizontal tabs at the top level
>>>> and used add_menu_page and add_submenu_page.
>>>>
>>>> But with the recent enforcements of new rules and recommendations, I
>>>> have had to do some major rework. I first rewrote the options framework to
>>>> use the Settings API, but still with add_menu_page and add_submenu_page. Now
>>>> I am rewriting again to get rid of the additional menu and roll it back to
>>>> how the look was earlier, but with a difference: the entire set of options
>>>> will not be loaded into browser memory in JQuery tabs. Instead, I will try
>>>> to fetch each page as it is clicked, like the Theme Installation page in WP.
>>>>
>>>> *My attempts:*
>>>>
>>>>    1. I first simply created one options page, then included a set of
>>>>    links at the top.
>>>>    *Issue:* Getting the links to behave as belonging within WP. E.g. If
>>>>    your admin panel is at http://host.com/wp-admin, your theme options
>>>>    page could be at http://host.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=my-options.
>>>>    The tabs, however cannot be given links through the admin panel. In other
>>>>    words, to get a URL such as
>>>>    http://host.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=my-sub-options-1, I HAVE to
>>>>    use add_theme_page. If I don't use add_theme_page, the page isn't added to
>>>>    the whitelist and will not show up. I cannot use other URLs, because then I
>>>>    will have something like this:
>>>>    http://host.com/wp-content/themes/my-theme/my-sub-options-1.php,
>>>>    which is just not done.
>>>>    2. To get around the above, I decided to bundle AJAX with the
>>>>    options page. So I have one options page accessible through
>>>>    http://host.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=my-options. In there I have
>>>>    5 links, each of which invokes AJAX to load the specific options page, while
>>>>    staying in http://host.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=my-options. This
>>>>    way I only need to whitelist the main page.
>>>>    *Issue:* Getting settings_fields() to generate _wp_http_referer
>>>>    different from admin-ajax.php. This is causing options.php to return
>>>>    admin-ajax.php?updated=true, which is not what I want. This is where I am
>>>>    stuck right now, but hopefully I will get over the hurdle soon.
>>>>
>>>> I am looking forward to completing this exercise, so that other
>>>> developers can learn from my (rather harsh) experience here.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Sayontan.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Rahul Bansal <rahul286 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > What if theme offers so many options that it need to contains 4-5
>>>> subpages?
>>>>
>>>> Ideally, it would still have just one Theme Options page under
>>>> appearance, and then use tabs or something else on its own page to
>>>> separate the options out.
>>>>
>>>> Realistically, I'd say a theme with that many options is too complex
>>>> to begin with. Themes should be about the look of the site, not crazy
>>>> functionality. Break the functionality parts out into plugins that go
>>>> along with the theme or something like that.
>>>>
>>>> -Otto
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sayontan Sinha
>>>> http://mynethome.net | http://mynethome.net/blog
>>>> --
>>>> Beating Australia in Cricket is like killing a celebrity. The death gets
>>>> more coverage than the crime.
>>>>
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>>>> more coverage than the crime.
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