[wp-hackers] Registration of plugin options?

[Ade Walker]

I can't answer your questions, but I'm looking for the same info too.
Hopefully someone will point us in the right direction.
Ade.

2009/3/16 Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp at poplarware.com>

> There was some talk around WP 2.7 about registration of plugin options, as
> I vaguely recall. Making it mandatory was dropped for 2.7.  What's happening
> in that regard for 2.8? Do we all need to update our plugins, or will they
> continue to work in 2.8?
>
> I see a brief mention of registering settings on
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_API, but all it has is the two
> registration functions listed -- no text, examples, mention of how/why to
> use them, etc.
>
> There is also nothing in
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Saving_Plugin_Data_to_the_Databaseor in
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus currently about
> registering options.
>
> So could someone who knows what is going on either (a) update those pages
> in the Codex, or (b) explain here what is going on and ask for someone else
> to update them? or (c) (preferable) both explain here what we need to do to
> keep our plugins working and update the codex pages?
>
> Thanks,
>   Jennifer
>
> --
> Jennifer Hodgdon * Poplar ProductivityWare
> www.poplarware.com
> Drupal, WordPress, and custom Web programming
>
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